Texas Police Allegedly Let the 'Trump Train' Nearly Crash Into a Biden Bus

[RKP5637]

(I think I might have been tempted to just drive into someone braking on purpose to force me off the road!!!)

When a caravan of at least 50 Texas Trump supporters in their cars began driving erratically to harass a campaign bus last October for then-presidential candidate Joe Biden, local police shrugged off the threat and refused to help, according to a new lawsuit filed by campaign staffers last week.

The cops even laughed and joked about the request, according to 911 calls and emails obtained for the suit.

On Oct. 30, the so-called “Trump Train,” waving MAGA and Confederate flags, surrounded the Biden-Harris bus, some coming within three or four inches of sideswiping it at times, according to the lawsuit. Others braked abruptly in front of it, forcing the large vehicle to drive “dangerously slow” on the highway, while others swerved their vehicles in an effort to drive it onto the throughway’s shoulder. At least one person in the Trump caravan slammed into the SUV of a campaign staffer following close behind the bus.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dgyx/texas-police-trump-train-biden-bus-lawsuit?utm_source=email&utm_medium=editorial&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=211101&utm_term=daily_automation_interest

[lambchopp59]

1. I barely recognize my young childhood state

Maybe I was just too young to realize how resilient the idiocy was .
Our little neighborhood kid gang colluded in defiance of the "whites only" sign on a nearby gas station's restrooms. Early 60's. We got a kick out of the elderly smoker-faced attendant chasing us off.
We also thought that sort of stupidity would die off with that generation.
None of my family remain there anymore.

[RKP5637]

2. I had thought it was all going away, and now it's back again. Yeah, after the 60's I had thought

it would be calmer. It's all so damn stupid!!!

[Pobeka]

3. This is a serious offense, I do hope the DOJ can get involved.

Lawyers for the Biden-Harris campaign staffers argue that when cops failed to help escort the caravan, they violated the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which prohibits groups from obstructing free and fair federal elections by intimidating voters and denying them the ability to engage in political speech. The act was passed at the time to prevent the white supremacist group from interfering in elections by terrorizing newly freed Black slaves who were then eligible to vote after the Civil War.

[RKP5637]

4. I hope so, It seems far too many things like this often get a free pass. If democrats

has done this they would have been all over them.