A Texas woman was arrested last week after she allegedly refused to follow a bank’s mask policy and then refused to leave the business.
In police body camera footage, the woman, identified by CNN as 65-year-old Terry White, can be seen being forced to the ground and placed in handcuffs by police inside a Bank of America branch in Galveston on Thursday.
The video starts shortly after the officer enters the bank and is pointed in the direction of White, who can be seen standing in line and not wearing a mask.
Though Texas lifted its statewide mask mandate last week, individual businesses can continue to enforce masking requirements inside their own establishments. “Ma’am, if they ask you to leave, you have to leave,” the officer can be