Violet Palmer describes her arrest for protesting at a fracking site in Texas.
Violet Palmer probably never imagined she'd start building a rap sheet at age 92-years-old, but that's
exactly what happened when she was arrested this week for criminal trespassing outside a Denton, Texas fracking site:
Violet Palmer said she knew that was a possibility when she joined her son and a small group of protesters outside a drilling operation on the west side of the city Tuesday morning.
"I did feel compelled," she said. "I feel like I must do something."
Before her arrest, Violet says she'd never even had a parking ticket. She was prompted to take action after she felt the Texas legislature was overstepping its bounds. The residents of Denton, Texas
passed a ban on fracking last November. That prompted the Texas legislature to follow-up with their own law which
essentially took away the authority of towns like Denton to ban fracking.
Palmer said she simply had to do something:
"Really, there is so little I can do, but I do it by protesting," she said.
Prosecutors are unlikely to bring actual charges, but hats off to Violet Palmer for taking a stand for her community.
"Really, there is so little I can do, but I do it by protesting," she said.
Big oil and gas didn't like the ban and they
have promised years of expensive litigation that could be very costly for the residents of Denton.
See an interview with Violet Palmer from WFAA.com: