‘That Audio and Video Saved Your Life’: Black Man Accused of Raping White Neighbor Used Home Surveillance Cam to Beat Charges, Is Now Suing Her and Police for False Arrest

A Black man has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Manvel, Texas, and its police officers, claiming that he was falsely arrested for sexually assaulting his white neighbor during a gathering to celebrate his new home. According to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas this week, on Nov. 9, 2023, Manvel resident John Marks, 40, and his friend Freddie Douglas Jr., 43, had consensual sex in Marks’ pool with Amanda Zawieruszynski, a woman who lived nearby and with whom Marks said he had carried on an “intimate” relationship with for several months. Zawieruszynski filed a police report a week later claiming she was held against her will, with both men raping her or attempting to rape her over a several-hour time period that night and into the next morning, reported the El Campo Leader-News. A court affidavit stated that all three had been drinking and that the assaults took place “with the woman saying no and having to physically fight Douglas off of her.” John Marks, left, and Amanda Zawieruszynski, right (Photos: X/Justin A. Moore) Marks was arrested on Dec. 7, 2023, and charged with aggravated sexual assault and aggravated...