Texas man sent to prison for "resisting" in his own home

[Feeding the Abscess]

after being mistaken for a burglar:

Following a one-day trial and four-hour deliberation, a six-person Angelina County jury concluded Sauceda was guilty of resisting arrest on March 15, 2009, while being pepper-sprayed, shot with a pepper ball gun and wrestled to the ground by Lufkin Police officers in his living room, according to testimony.

In closing arguments Wednesday morning, Sauceda’s defense attorney, Ryan Deaton, chronicled how his client was approached by Lufkin police when they entered his home at 111 Finley St. on a report of a black man kicking in the front door, called in by a neighbor. Sauceda, who Deaton described as having the mind of a child, then locked himself in the bathroom and refused to come out despite repeated warnings by the officers on scene.

“His behavior was more consistent with a burglar than an innocent person, and that’s what got us here today,” Taylor said. “If you’ve got a language barrier, you find somebody to help accommodate. Is it reasonable that you close the door and lock yourself in your room? I don’t know that it is."

http://lufkindailynews.com/news/local/article_79700610-b30b-11e0-a4e5-001cc4c03286.html

Dragged out, beat, and maced, he is then charged, found guilty and will be going to jail for a month even after the jury says he has been wronged.

In a final humiliation, the judge blames it all on him; I guess for being too slow to understand that in Amerika, anything short of complete and immediate compliance and submission to authority is grounds to beat you to a bloody pulp, fine you and throw you in rape cage.

Obedience, mundanes. Our wise overlords are here to protect us.

 

[dohdough]

It could've been worse. He could've been shot by cops after defending his own home and detaining the intruder with his own gun even after the cops were told that it was the owner that had the gun. But hey, they do everything bigger in Texas like executing people with developmental issues. We should just annex Texas back to Mexico.