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I met a gentleman once, who had his life changed by a police induced chain of events. He explained this chain of events in detail, and believe me it really wrecked his life.
He was at a bar in Texas, and was a witness to a barfight. When the police showed up, they arrested him. He asked why he was being arrested, and they responded "Resisting arrest." Now he gets dragged to jail, and goes to trial. He had no money to pay for a lawyer, so he ended up with a poor public defender. He was in fact convicted by a judge of resisting arrest with no other charges. He was sentenced to FOUR YEARS in prison, his only crime was asking what he was being arrested for. He did not have the money to appeal, and consequently served the time.
He lost four years of his life. He was beaten in prison and was badly disfigured from it. Between the four years in prison and his new scarred face, his wife left him, and took his daughter and moved to Pennsylvania. Even after he got out of jail, he wasn't allowed to leave Texas, so he couldn't see his daughter in Pennsylvania grow up for many years. Once his probation or parole or whatever they have in Texas ended, he moved to Pennsylvania, which is where I met him.
Where is the justice?
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