activists behind those protests had been very busy working on, among other things, registering latino voters in harris county. conveniently for those efforts there was a nice stark dividing line between the incumbent sheriff hickman and his opponent, a man named ed gonzalez. sheriff hickman was for that federal agreement that turned local cops into immigration enforcers. ed gonzalez said if he was elected he would end it. there are 254 counties in the great state of texas, out of those 254 only 27 went blue on election night, but harris county, the big one, harris county was one of those blue counties and harris county didn t just vote top of the ticket for hillary clinton they elected a new sheriff, ousted the incumbent. our decision 2016 coverage with some surprising results in the race for harris county sheriff, as we showed you right before the break the latest numbers have democratic challenger ed gonzalez ahead of ron hickman with 52%, with 53% of the vote now. bill spencer joi
marched from the convention center to the harris county jail. they had signs reading time is running outend to 87 jg also tell ron hickman that 287g tears families apart. ron hick mapp was the sheriff of harris county, houston, it s 4.5 million people. we re talking about montana earlier in the show. harris county alone has four times the population of all of montana. the decision facing sheriff hickman last june with the protests in the streets was whether his department would renew or end an agreement that he had made with the federal government, under that oddly named 287g. the idea behind 287g is that counties can sign a contract with the feds that allows the federal government to basically deputize local law enforcement to turn local police, local