A Texas man was arrested by police after reportedly vandalizing his own truck and then blaming it on anti-police protesters. Lattin, a disabled military veteran, initially claimed he and his family put blue ribbons and a pro-law enforcement massage on the back of his white pickup truck to honor the memory of Darren Goforth, a Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy who was fatally shot at a Houston-area gas station earlier this year.
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“Lattin said he woke up the next day to find that vandals had spray-painted “Black Lives Matter” on the side of the truck, as well as an expletive “F*** The Police” and a cryptic hashtag, “#FYF”, which is evidently shorthand for “F*** your family”, F*** your family”, or “F*** your feelings”.
Lattin was taken into custody without incident at his home, Bentley said. “And for them to have been deceived? It’s just wrong”. “We had initial video when the officers took the report and then when we saw your story on Channel 4”.
Lattin, unsurprisingly, calls the charges “absolutely not true” despite admitting to the lies in an affidavit. Apparently, the graffiti was in response to the words he painted on his vehicle in support of a fallen police officer: “Police Lives Matter”.
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Lattin’s neighbor Levonda Bradshaw was suspicious from the very beginning, because they have a fenced in property with dogs that bark at everyone that comes near there. In addition, autodealers and body shops even offered to help. Apparently, the initial police report showed there was no damage to the inside of the truck. After his father’s arrest, neither he nor his mother wanted to talk.
