Once Again: Restore the Right to Resist

by Will

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

July 21, 2011

Marco Sauceda of Lufkin, Texas, did nothing wrong. Yet the mentally handicapped 30-year-old was pepper-sprayed, shot with a pepper-ball gun, and severely beaten by nine police officers in his own home after they mistook him for a robber. Now he?s going to jail for 30 days and will have to pay a $500 fine for the supposed crime of resisting arrest.

County Attorney Ed Jones insisted that the case had to be taken to court because ?the statute says that you do not have the right to resist the arrest. We were going to try the case no matter what.?

The jury had the right, the legal authority, and moral duty to nullify the application of that statute. Instead, they convicted him and told the trial judge, Derek Flournoy, that Sauceda ?has been wronged? and asked him to display leniency. The Judge didn?t agree, lecturing Sauceda that ?I don?t agree you are a victim in this case? and insisted that when the terrified man hid in a bathroom he ?put ? the officers in harm?s way.?

This case illustrates perfectly the imperative need to restore statutory protection for the right to resist unlawful arrest.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.

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