You're Never Safe When Cops Are Around

by Will

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 13, 2012

Austin, Texas resident Scott Henson, a legal affairs writer, was walking home from the roller rink with his 5-year-old granddaughter on February 10 when they were approached by a deputy constable. The officer addressed Henson as if he were a criminal suspect. She began to interrogate the child, who calmly acknowledged that Henson is her grandfather.

Henson and the girl were allowed to depart, but just two blocks from their house they were surrounded by nearly a dozen police cars.  Henson was handcuffed and detained for nearly a half-hour while the girl was questioned again.

Henson point s out that he is white and his granddaughter is black, which could appear uncommon but is hardly unheard of. Furthermore, his identity and that of his granddaughter had been established in the first encounter ? but this didn?t stop the police from terrorizing them.

Things could have turned out much worse. During the same week, Manuel Loggins, Jr., a Marine Sergeant at Camp Pendleton, was gunned down by police in front of his terrified daughters for reasons nobody can explain.

Henson notes that while his family lives in a bad neighborhood, ?the only people [we have] to fear are in uniform.? That?s pretty much the case everywhere.

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

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