Wednesday, June 30, 2021
San Marcos Director of Public Safety Chase Stapp and two other unnamed city employees are being sued over a Biden campaign bus incident that occurred in October 2020.
Former State Sen. Wendy Davis, a Biden campaign volunteer, campaign staffer and a bus driver are suing, claiming that Stapp and the San Marcos Police Department failed to provide them protection as the Biden-Harris bus drove through San Marcos on Interstate 35. The bus was surrounded and followed by supporters of former President Donald Trump who formed a self-labeled “Trump Train,” the lawsuit states.
On Oct. 30, 2020, the Biden-Harris campaign was scheduled to make a stop in San Marcos for an event at Texas State University. The bus traveled from San Antonio up I-35. According to the lawsuit, law enforcement departments “up and down the I-35 were aware of the existence and dangers of the Trump Train, and several delivered escorts, some prearranged to accompany the bus safely along stretches of I-35 … But in the City of San Marcos help never arrived.”