The client, the owner of a roofing company, was driving his daughter to elementary school when a loud and obnoxious driver tailgated him in the school zone. He got out of the car and asked the other driver to cool off. Instead, the other driver cursed out the client loud enough for his daughter to hear it in the car several feet away. The client punched the abusive driver in the face, knocking him unconscious. The client was charged with assault.
A former heavyweight boxer nearing the end of his career as a deputy sheriff was caught off-guard by a cop killer while working prison duty. The deputy’s weapon was taken away and a sheet thrown over his head. When the sheet was removed he saw his own pistol aimed at his face. The prison phone rang, distracting the prisoner long enough for the deputy to throw one punch. The prisoner’s nose was smashed into his head, rendering him unconscious and causing trauma. The deputy was charged with abuses against the prisoner and threatened with the loss of his pension after twenty years on the job.
First potential Hispanic fire fighter in the history of the city of Houston was originally denied a job, although he was a military fire fighter during Vietnam. He was also denied promotions and denied the right to make extra money at the Houston Rodeo, an event much treasured by civil servants.
A family member of a famous 60s singer was threatened with a shotgun, forcing her to desert her property. The man threatening her used her property as a landfill, and used racist words to describe his “meeting” with her. At the time of litigation he was in adverse possession of her property, having moved the road allowing her access to her property.
A member of the Ku Klux Klan assisted a marijuana farmer in growing crops on land he allegedly purchased from the descendant of slaves, who had purchased the land in 1896. The county, with the help of the sheriff and the district attorney, seized the property. However the rightful owner, a retired schoolteacher, had not received a single payment for her land. She was also being sued by three districts for taxes on the land she was never paid for. (Lillie Mae Paley Burns v. “Citizen”)
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