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âSomebody dropped the ballâ: Former Capitol police officer speaks out on riot 2 months 2 weeks 5 days ago Tuesday, January 19 2021 Jan 19, 2021 January 19, 2021 7:28 AM January 19, 2021 in News - Local Share: Hours away from the inauguration of President-Elect Joe Biden, a former Capitol police officer is speaking out against the attack on the Capitol earlier this month. Former Capitol Police Officer Raul Salinas says it’s all very different than the people he dealt with when he worked there. Most of them were peaceful,” Salinas said. “There were some that got out-of-hand. I made a few arrests. But never in my life would I have ever thought that the U.S. Capitol, the seat of democracy would be invaded. ....
Former Laredo mayor and Capitol building police officer discusses insurrection Jan. 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 4of5 Raul Salinas is pictured with HJC Chairman Peter Rodino shortly after President Nixon’s impeachment.CourtesyShow MoreShow Less 5of5 The insurrection at the Capitol building on Jan. 6 has touched or affected everybody in some way. However, one Laredoan that used to work in the building described the attack as one of the most frightening chapters in modern American history. Former City of Laredo Mayor Raul Salinas who has served in the FBI, as a security consultant and as a Capitol building police officer from 1970 to 1975 served in the nation s Capitol building during a tense time in American history during with during the Watergate scandal. However, he said the tension never reached anything like what he saw less than two weeks ago. ....
Getty Images A recent Texas appeals court decision calls to mind an oft-quoted remark by Albert Einstein: “Many of the things you can count, don’t count.” Commentators have speculated that he meant in science you can calculate distance, speed, time, energy, etc., but you can t count or measure love, freedom, happiness – the truly meaningful things in life. In setting aside a civil penalty judgment and an award of attorney’s fees, the appellate panel ruled that the State could not simply add up the calendar days in a more-than-ten-year span to prove that an offender continuously violated the law during that time period. Many of those days possibly don’t count. ....