Texas Man Gets 70 Years in Prison After Spitting on Police Officers

[dalton99a]

https://people.com/crime/texas-man-70-years-prison-spitting-officers/

Texas Man Gets 70 Years in Prison After Spitting on Police Officers
Larry Pearson, 36, was sentenced on April 12 after being found guilty of two counts of harassment of a public servant
By Nicole Acosta
Published on April 14, 2023 04:18 PM

A Texas man will spend 70 years behind bars after spitting on police officers during his arrest last year, according to multiple reports.

Larry Pearson, 36, was sentenced on April 12 after being found guilty of two counts of harassment of a public servant, KLBK News first reported. The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal also confirmed the sentence.

Pearson was arrested for domestic assault in May 2022 after a woman flagged down an officer in Lubbock, Texas, Prosecutor Jessica Gorman told the outlet. The woman claimed Pearson hit her multiple times, and that he had a firearm – which later turned out to be an airsoft gun.

According to the outlet, citing authorities, after Pearson was taken into custody, he reportedly got upset that the woman wasn't arrested instead of him, and began kicking at the doors of the cop car.

When two officers opened the car door and ordered Pearson to stop, the prosecutor said he spit at both of them and continued to do so until they arrived at the Lubbock County Detention Center, the outlet reports.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

1. Texas man is the new Florida man.

There's got to be more to this story, I'll bet that this guy has a history of violence towards women and police and the courts are done with him.

Don't want to go to jail or prison? Don't spit on cops or batter women.

[ripcord]

8. The article says due to prior convictions the minimum sentence was 25 years

[Lefta Dissenter]

2. Should have done it on January 6

at the US Capitol. Then he’d be celebrated.

Well, minus the skin tone, of course.

[Lovie777]

3. Texas gone wild....................

I don't care if property is cheap.............

The cost living is cheap..............

I want to keep my peace of mind, rights and freedom intact.

[ret5hd]

5. Property isn't cheap...

Cost of living isn’t cheap.

The ONLY plus is no state income tax.

Quickly eaten up by high property taxes, high sales taxes, etc.

[GuppyGal]

7. +1000

[harumph]

4. will be overturned on appeal. it's completely ridiculous.

[jimfields33]

12. Excuse me. But it was premeditated murder if you ask me.

We were in the height of a world wide pandemic and people were dying from Covid. He got off easy.

[Iggo]

16. Who got murdered?

[jimfields33]

18. I said premeditated

[muriel_volestrangler]

19. You also said "murder"

If no-one died, it's not murder, by definition.

[jimfields33]

21. Maybe attempted murder. I did get the terminology incorrect.

[muriel_volestrangler]

22. You can't call it "attempted murder", really. It was, at worst, reckless

just as running a red light is reckless. But you don't charge running a red light as "attempted murder", because there's no way you can convince anyone they he was trying to kill them.

[jimfields33]

23. I can see that with the scenario.

I’m just thinking if they got Covid and died. That’d suck pretty bad for them.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

6. No need to guess what color he is.

[BeckyDem]

9. What a shock...he is a black man.

[Marius25]

10. Meanwhile beating Capital police officers to death or close to it

only landed people in jail for 3-7 years.

[Cattledog]

11. Murderers, rapists, get less time.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. System working as designed. Abolish it all.

[Zeitghost]

14. Working indeed

To lock up those with a long history of violence towards women and others.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

15. But that's not what he was locked up for. Is that a system that's working?

[Zeitghost]

17. His violent history

Is directly responsible for his current sentence. Repeat offenders don't get minimum sentences.

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. The minimum was because he is a repeat offender, but it's nearly 3 times the minimum

25 years would be a long time for the actual serious crime - assault (for which his trial has not ye been held, it seems). 70 is ridiculous.

[NowISeetheLight]

24. Give it a few days

I'm sure someone will publish his criminal record online. To end up with a 25 year sentence minimum his previous record must've really been bad.