We Were Gassed, Arrested, and Maybe Exposed to COVID-19
The things that make mass arrests especially awful are now health risks.
Barely 10 minutes after Malik and Erikha Mason got out of their car in downtown Houston on Saturday night, the twins say, police hemmed them in along with dozens of other protesters and started firing pepper spray. Though their cellphone videos show the twins were on the sidewalk just before their arrest, the 22-year-old siblings were charged with obstructing the roadway.
From there, the night got worse: Instead of sending them to the regular booking center where lawyers could find them, the Houston Police Department crammed protestors into a gym at a substation. Several told The Marshall Project they spent the rest of the night there, with their arms zip-tied behind their backs in crowded corrals. There was no
