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brooklynite

(94,591 posts)
Wed Dec 15, 2021, 02:55 PM Dec 2021

Former Houston cop who thought A/C repairman was a voter fraud mastermind indicted on felony assault

Houston Chronicle

A Harris County grand jury on Tuesday indicted former Houston police captain Mark Aguirre on an assault charge after he was accused of running a man off the road and pointing to a gun to his head because he thought he was committing voter fraud in the run-up to the 2020 election.

Aguirre will face a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison. The trial currently is scheduled to begin in February.


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Former Houston cop who thought A/C repairman was a voter fraud mastermind indicted on felony assault (Original Post) brooklynite Dec 2021 OP
This asshole worked for Steve Hotze who is a major asshole and voter suppressor LetMyPeopleVote Dec 2021 #1
Lock him up Deuxcents Dec 2021 #2

LetMyPeopleVote

(145,293 posts)
1. This asshole worked for Steve Hotze who is a major asshole and voter suppressor
Wed Dec 15, 2021, 03:13 PM
Dec 2021

Hotze sued to stop the drive through voting in Harris County and has been trying to steal elections/suppress the vote for a long time




On Oct. 19, Aguirre allegedly ran his SUV into the back of the truck to get Zuniga to stop and get out.
When Zuniga got out of the truck, Aguirre pointed a handgun at him, forced him to the ground and put his knee on his back until police came, the court document said.

At the time of the alleged crime, Aguirre was working as a contract investigator for conservative activist Steven Hotze. Hotze has made a name for himself for alleging widespread voter fraud in Harris County, even when none has been found.

Last fall, Hotze used the "Liberty Center" funds to hire around 20 private investigators and other workers to investigate incidents of alleged fraud.

"We paid our investigators closer to $300,000," said Hotze during an hour long news conference at the time. Hotze and his attorney, Jared Woodfill, spent most of the time rehashing their allegations of massive voter fraud.

Deuxcents

(16,239 posts)
2. Lock him up
Wed Dec 15, 2021, 05:05 PM
Dec 2021

Terrorizing an innocent man just going about his business. He should have known better, being a cop.. a captain, at that.

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