“The government is having a lot of trouble providing discovery of all the evidence to all the defendants because they charged so many people, Womack said. They jumped the gun.
The government has charged some 400 people for their alleged participation in the insurrection, Womack said. That s really clogging the court system, and the government isn t up to the task of getting the discovery ready within the guidelines, he added.
A large number of alleged insurrectionists are from the Dallas area. So far, the FBI s Dallas office has arrested 22 people across its division, which covers much of the state s top half, spokeswoman Katherine Chaumont said by email. On April 21, the last two to be arrested were a Cooke County GOP precinct chair and his wife.
The program also keeps tabs on planned protests, according to a government bulletin.
Last week, Gohmert appeared on the far-right One America News Network (OAN) to condemn iCOP. There’s been enough government “spying” on American citizens through the National Security Agency, he said, referring to the NSA’s previous unconstitutionalsurveillance efforts.
“The only thing that Orwell got wrong was the year,” Gohmert told OAN host Kara McKinney. “It wasn’t 1984 it’s now.”
The U.S. Postal Service apparently has deeper, darker secrets than the NSA. We don’t need any more government spying on our citizens. https://t.co/8qkxgoKSPo Louie Gohmert (@replouiegohmert) May 7, 2021
In video footage taken at the May 2 protest, a tall white man is seen angrily confronting protesters, who were crossing a busy Plano intersection. Scott supporters demanded the man’s arrest and the firing of a police officer they felt did little to intervene. But some conservatives insist that the protesters were in the wrong for obstructing traffic.
Many have accused right-wing commentators of fomenting misplaced outrage. Rather than being upset by Scott’s horrific death, which his family described as “torturous,” some conservatives seemed more rattled by potential traffic violations.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday tweeted the protest was an example of mob rule. In a statement, he claimed a militant group of Black Lives Matter protesters were real the aggressors, and an Antifa-like character pulled out what appears to be a gun.
Rather than satisfying his opponents’ sweet tooth, West was rubbing sugar in an open wound.
Earlier this month, controversy erupted over a since-deleted Facebook post made by the chair of the Democratic Party in Lamar County, located around 116 miles northeast of Dallas. In it, Chair Gary O’Connor used the word “Oreo” in reference to Republican U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, who is Black.
The disparaging term is meant to describe a Black person who has adopted the attitudes and behaviors characteristic of white, middle-class society, according to Dictionary.com.
After President Joe Biden delivered a congressional address, Scott gave the official Republican response and said “America is not a racist country,” according to