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TORONTO — Police have laid nine charges after a Toron­to bar­be­cue restau­rant open­ly flout­ed pub­lic health restric­tions pro­hibit­ing on-site din­ing for a sec­ond straight day.

Offi­cers showed up at the Queen Eliz­a­beth Blvd. loca­tion of Adam­son Bar­be­cue at around 11 a.m. on Wednes­day after own­er Adam Skel­ly reopened the busi­ness, despite Toron­to Pub­lic Health hav­ing for­mal­ly ordered its clo­sure for allow­ing cus­tomers to eat inside one day prior.

At one point footage from the scene showed dozens of patrons inside the restau­rant, many of them with­out face cov­er­ings, in a repeat of the scene from one day prior.