{"id":56062,"date":"2021-03-14T13:11:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T17:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=56062"},"modified":"2021-03-14T13:11:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T17:11:04","slug":"how-did-this-brutal-arrest-even-occur-when-the-law-was-on-the-victims-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=56062","title":{"rendered":"How did this brutal arrest even occur when the law was on the victim&#8217;s side?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>65-Year Old Texas Woman Tackled, Arrested For Refusing To Mask A Day After Abbott Lifted Mandate<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Early on in the pandemic &#8220;lockdowns&#8221; it was sadly an all too familiar scene to see people getting arrested over standoffs that ensued when patrons of businesses refused to wear a mask. But in Texas\u00a0<strong>despite Governor Greg Abbott having lifted the mask mandate and opened the state back up &#8220;100%&#8221;<em>\u00a0it&#8217;s still happening<\/em><\/strong>, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>The mask mandate was lifted statewide on March 10, but the very next day on Thursday a 65-year old Texas woman found herself being\u00a0<strong>tackled to the ground by police after being told by a Galveston Bank of America branch to mask up<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott had left it up to businesses or any premises on private property to decide if they want to require masks or not. The Republican governor explained\u00a0in his announcement\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/texas-governor-ending-mask-order-longer-government-running\/story?id=76274648\">early this month<\/a>, &#8220;If businesses don&#8217;t feel safe opening, they should not be required to.&#8221; Here&#8217;s what happen when the woman in Galveston defied the bank&#8217;s mask order on Thursday&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_borderTop__2PX5m Advert_placement__1I4yb\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/275gkDNCqsc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Galveston police were called to the scene after the woman refused to conform when asked by bank staff, after which officer body cam video caught the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-woman-arrested-refusing-mask-galveston-bank-bodycam\">intense exchange<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Ma\u2019am, if they ask you to leave, you have to leave,&#8221; the officer says in bodycam video.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;My money is in this bank, and I\u2019m going to take it out,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0she replies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Well then you have to abide by their rules,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0the officer answered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In many cases Texans in the few days since the mask requirement was lifted have been\u00a0<strong>flaunting the the social distancing measures<\/strong>\u00a0and mask-up restrictions\u00a0of private businesses\u00a0<strong>while citing Gov. Abbott&#8217;s order.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This has led to continued encounters like the one in the police-cam video:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Businesses have the right to refuse service even if you\u2019re not wearing a mask,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0the officer explains. &#8220;You need to go and get a mask and then take your money out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She continues to protest, and the officer tells her &#8220;we\u2019re gonna do this the easy way or the hard way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What are you gonna do, arrest me?&#8221; she replies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, for intruding on premises,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>After some more back and forth, the officer adds, &#8220;This is not a public place. This is a private business.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The elderly woman then cried out, hoping that other customers would come to her defense, &#8220;Back up, back up!\u00a0<strong>An old lady is getting arrested here!<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She later recounted in an interview with FOX-26 Houston that she was simply there to close her account, and that she couldn&#8217;t enter the drive-thru due to driving a large vehicle. &#8220;Ma&#8217;am you have to leave&#8230;,&#8221; the bank staff told her upon entering.\u00a0<strong>&#8220;I just want to close my account, I&#8217;m gonna get my money and then I&#8217;ll leave. I can&#8217;t got through the drive-thru, I&#8217;m pulling the rig.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TUuyUvQ1GRw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Wow, not wearing a mask people&#8230; this is what they do to ya!&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0she&#8217;s later heard exclaiming in the parking lot while handcuffed as police backup arrives.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, identified in multiple reports as\u00a0Terry White,\u00a0later calls the other customers in the bank &#8211; who appear to be supportive of the officer&#8217;s move to arrest her &#8211; a\u00a0<strong>&#8220;bunch of sheep&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Police issued an arrest warrant based on &#8220;trespassing&#8221; given the bank had\u00a0asked her to leave over the mask compliance issue.<\/p>\n<p><em>Meanwhile, the city of Austin is actually fighting to keep the public mask mandate in place&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1370437658044993540&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2F65-year-old-texas-woman-tackled-arrested-not-wearing-mask-day-after-abbot-lifted-mandate&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=e1ffbdb%3A1614796141937&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1370437658044993540\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>She further lambasted the police as &#8220;taking away people&#8217;s human rights&#8221; before being led away. Local reports say she was taken to a hospital for an injury to her foot sustained in the scuffle with police.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/65-year-old-texas-woman-tackled-arrested-not-wearing-mask-day-after-abbot-lifted-mandate\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/65-year-old-texas-woman-tackled-arrested-not-wearing-mask-day-after-abbot-lifted-mandate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>65-Year Old Texas Woman Tackled, Arrested For Refusing To Mask A Day After Abbott Lifted Mandate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}