Woman Handcuffed For Trespassing After Not Wearing Mask Inside Texas Bank

A woman is now facing criminal charges after she refused to leave a Galveston, Texas, bank for not wearing a mask.

Terry Wright went to a Bank of America on the island on Thursday, March 11, but was asked by the bank's manager to either put on a mask or leave. When Wright refused to do either, the bank manager called the police.

“What are you going to do, arrest me? That’s hilarious," Wright can be heard asking a Galveston officer who arrived at the bank.

The Galveston Police Department released on Friday video of the incident taken by the officer's body camera.

The officer tells Wright that she's intruding on private property and that she needs to leave. She tries to argue that it's against the law to make her wear a mask, and she tries to walk away from the cop when he pulls out a pair of handcuffs.

Other bank customers and employees are calmly standing around as the officer wrestles Wright to the floor and tells her she's resisting arrest.

“Police brutality right here people,” Wright tells the other customers, but they tell her "no."

While Wright was handcuffed, she was not arrested on Thursday. Police took her to the hospital after she complained of foot pain.

A police spokesperson told the Washington Post that Wright will be arrested on resisting arrest and criminal trespassing charges.

While Gov. Greg Abbott eliminated Texas's statewide mask mandate, businesses still have the right to ask their customers to wear masks and call the cops on people who refuse to leave private property when asked.

Photo: Galveston Police Department