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Related: About this forumFollow-up: Open Carry Texas plans rally to teach Ector sheriff 'a lesson'
In a video posted last week, Open Carry Texas Vice President David Amad said the group will return to Odessa and teach Ector County Sheriff Mike Griffis a lesson following the arrests of some group members for carrying guns outside a West Odessa bar.
Six men were arrested earlier this month after openly carrying rifles in a lot adjacent to Big Daddy Zanes. They said they were supporting the owner, who opened against Gov. Greg Abbotts executive orders. She was also arrested for violating those orders, as was another employee.
Griffis said in a press conference the day after the arrests that the presence of Open Carry Texas was meant to intimidate law enforcement and that the men were not there to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
Now, members of Open Carry Texas are planning to return to Big Daddy Zanes and hold a second rally on June 6, according to a Facebook event and video posted on YouTube.
Read more: https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Open-Carry-Texas-plans-rally-to-teach-Ector-15287756.php
(Midland Reporter-Telegram)
Earlier thread:
Bar owner calls in 'armed vigilantes' to protest Texas coronavirus restrictions -- and she joins them
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Squinch
(50,901 posts)blue lives mattering.
These people are disgusting.
Skittles
(153,104 posts)just a bunch of gun humping COWARDS who no doubt think people donning masks "live in fear"
Kaiserguy
(740 posts)open carry and all the BS attempts to intimidate us. This group is nothing more than 2 bit thugs.
bucolic_frolic
(43,024 posts)duforsure
(11,884 posts)Is voting out the ones in power that promote it, or it will just continue to escalate until someone uses violence from political prodding. trump wants to incite others to do violence for him, then claim deniability for it.
gibraltar72
(7,498 posts)ms liberty
(8,549 posts)But are there to "intimidate the sheriff" then the sheriff needs to go in and arrest them all for communicating threats and attempted extortion. Because that would be how I would define their actions