T
The Daily Insight

What did Larry Pearson do? Charges explored as 70-year prison sentence stirs online debate

Author

Lily Fisher

Published Jan 28, 2026

On Wednesday, April 12, 36-year-old Larry Pearson was condemned to 70 years in jail for spitting at Lubbock Province Cops. The cruelty of the sentence has mixed contention on the web. Notwithstanding, investigators have expressed that it is because of Pearson’s criminal history.

In no time before the occurrence, in which he spat at the officials, they endeavored to stop him after he supposedly attacked a lady with whom he was sincerely involved.

Larry Pearson has been sentenced for two counts of provocation as a detriment to a community worker. Examiners noticed that he had earlier convictions for bothered theft and nonstop family savagery. Investigators expressed that when they condemned him to 70 years, they considered the potential danger he kept on introducing to the general population.

In light of the condemning of Larry Pearson, numerous netizens guaranteed that he got such a cruel jail term since he is an African American. Nonetheless, other netizens noticed that his long history of rough wrongdoing might have been the reason.

One netizen, Suzanne, recognized the job of hearers in Larry Pearson’s condemning. Notwithstanding, she accepted that they were exclusively centered around Pearson’s demonstration of irreverence focused on specialists.

Other netizens, like IGZ, accept that the media inclusion of Larry Pearson’s case has been deluding. His point of view was reliable with the cases made by investigator Jessica Gorman as she expressed her reasoning.

— SAY CHEESE! 👄🧀 (@SaycheeseDGTL) April 13, 2023


During his capture, Pearson’s forceful way of behaving was not restricted to spitting at officials. He was likewise blamed for kicking the entryways of the squad car after he was confined. He likewise purportedly communicated that the casualty of the homegrown attack ought to have been captured, not him.

Gorman asserted that Pearson’s rap sheet demonstrated that he had no designs to stop his vicious way of behaving. As indicated by the New York Post, Jim Shaw, Pearson’s guard lawyer, accepted that it was unfair that Pearson was being rebuffed for his whole criminal history as opposed to the wrongdoing offense he was being pursued for. Because of Pearson’s past offenses, the base sentence he might have gotten for the charges was 25 years in jail.