In the two-tiered system of injustice in the United States, you can be criminalized even when you are going about your business, having broken no laws. Here is another case of the glaring injustice in the system that has, for all intents and purposes is a police state, particularly for Black people.
In the story below a completely innocent young woman who happens to be black was approached and boxed in by police who mistakenly accosted her after she left a residence; cops were called to a burglary at a totally different address but screwed up and went to the address they accosted her.
Irate at the fact that she was being detained for committing no crime, she responded by pushing off the cops who attempted to arrest her. As a consequence, she was charged with four felony counts, two counts of resisting an officer with violence, and two counts of battery on a law enforcement officer. Each is a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
In the land of the free, you have zero protection from the marauding gang of thugs who act on behalf of the states, even when you have committed no crime and, worse yet if you are black.
The most outrageous part about it is the complicit judge who wrote;“This repeated violence on the law enforcement officers is what led to the defendant’s arrest and four felony charges,” Rowe wrote.
Welcome to Amerikkka…The whole system is a fraud.
A judge ruled that a Volusia Sheriff’s Office sergeant who responded to the wrong address in Deltona last year for a burglary alarm made a “reasonable” mistake and had “reasonable suspicion” to stop and detain a woman. In his ruling, Circuit Judge Randell Rowe III denied a defense motion that argued the deputy illegally stopped the woman and evidence against her should be thrown out.
The situation began when Volusia Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Chad Weaver responded to the wrong address on July 18, 2022. The alarm was on Ainsworth Avenue, but Weaver drove one block over to Academy Avenue. Weaver then stopped a car that he saw leaving the house he mistakenly thought was the source of the alarm.
Iyanna Rollins, 19, of Oviedo, was trying to drive away from the house when Weaver stopped her. When Weaver began to question her, the situation escalated. Rollins was accused of striking Weaver and a backup officer, Deputy Erica Muzzy.
Rollins was charged with two counts of resisting an officer with violence and two counts of battery on a law enforcement officer. Each is a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
In his Tuesday order, Judge Rowe also cited state law prohibiting someone from threatening force or using force to resist a law enforcement officer if the officer “was acting in good faith” and is known to be or reasonably appears to be a law enforcement officer. “Thus, a defendant is statutorily prohibited from using violence to resist her arrest by law enforcement officers even if the arrest is illegal,” Rowe stated in his order.
Rowe wrote that Weaver’s traffic stop, based on the deputy’s “incorrect but reasonable assessment of the facts,” did not violate Rollins’ Fourth Amendment rights. The Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
Weaver testified he became suspicious when Rollins would not tell him why she was at the house. Weaver told her to turn off the car and then reached into the car to turn it off himself.
Rowe wrote that Rollins “became irate and threatened to punch Weaver,” jumping out of the car and, “yelling and hurling obscenities” at Weaver.
“The body camera video shows her waving her hands around and pointing her finger in front of the officer’s face, threatening to spit on him and screaming wildly. Sgt. Weaver testified that he tried to explain to the defendant why he had stopped her but she refused to listen because, as shown in the video, she had become quite irate and out of control.”
While Weaver tried to explain that she was not under arrest and was being secured, Rollins shoved, punched and kicked Weaver multiple times, Rowe’s order states.
Once handcuffed, Rollins continued to physically resist and threatened to bite and spit on Weaver, Rowe wrote. She also resisted and kicked Deputy Muzzy when she was checking her handcuffs, Rowe wrote.
“This repeated violence on the law enforcement officers is what led to the defendant’s arrest and four felony charges,” Rowe wrote.
Rollins’ next court appearance is a pre-trial hearing set for Aug. 15.