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Lawsuit Filed Against Ted Cruz in Texas – Video

No, not because he was born in Canada and running for President of the United States, that lawsuit will come later if Donald Trump gets his way, and if Ted Cruz turns out to be the Republican candidate for president. This lawsuit filed in Texas was because of more sleazy maneuvering by Cruz and his team, and their violation a Texas law in the way they asked for donations.

According to the law, Texas House Bill 1265, anyone soliciting donations in the state using “fake checks” must specify on the check that it is a “SPECIMEN-NON-NEGOTIABLE” and those words must be printed on the check in 18-point lettering. Ted Cruz has sent out these “fake checks” trying to get Texans to send him $45, telling them that they donations will be matched. By the looks of the checks below, Cruz and his campaign clearly violated the specifics in the law.

“This is the kind of mail my legislation was trying to prevent,” said the Bill’s author, Gene Hu. “It certainly breaks the spirit of the law, and I agree that the Texas’ Consumer Protection Division should look into whether or not it breaks the letter of the law, as well.”

Phillip Martin, deputy director of Progress Texas filed the lawsuit, saying that Cruz must be held accountable. “We filed the complaint because no candidate is above the law, not even Ted Cruz.”

More explained in the video below

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Officer Who Arrested Sandra Bland Indicted

No, the Grand jury did not indict Texas State Trooper Brian Encinia on any wrong doing in Sandra Bland’s death, but he was indicted on a perjury charge, for falsifying information about why Bland was stopped and removed from her vehicle.

Special prosecutor Shawn McDonald said Wednesday outside the courthouse that “the indictment was issued in reference to the reasoning that (Texas State Trooper Brian Encinia) removed her from her vehicle.”

He explained the grand jury didn’t believe Encinia’s statement that he took her from the car she was driving so he could conduct a safer traffic investigation.

The penalty for perjury, a Class A misdemeanor, is up to a year in jail and up to a $4,000 fine.

The Texas Department of Public Safety said after the indictment was announced that it will begin termination proceedings against the trooper.

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Politics Texas

Texas Grand Jury Sides with Police – No Indictment in Sandra Bland’s Death

Twenty eight year old Sandra Bland was arrested and jailed for allegedly not using a turn signal in Texas on July 10th. She was found dead in her cell three days later.

Now, after spending 8 whole hours reviewing police account that Bland hung herself with a plastic bag, a Grand Jury in Texas agreed that the obviously very strong piece of plastic was all the 28 year old woman needed.

“After reviewing all the evidence in the death of Sandra Bland, a Waller grand jury did not return an indictment in the death of Bland, nor were any indictments returned against any employee of the Waller County Jail,” said Darrell Jordan, a special prosecutor handling the case.

The grand jury will reconvene in January to consider other indictments.

Bland, an African-American woman, was found dead in her cell three days after she was arrested for allegedly failing to use her turn signal on July 10. She was 28.

Officials in Waller County, Texas, have said she hanged herself with a plastic bag. Her family and others have questioned that account.

Those questions continued Monday night.

“We are not going to allow what they have done in a limited, secret capacity to prevent us from doing what we need to do to get answers for the family,” Bland family attorney Cannon Lambert told CNN affiliate KPRC.

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Police Chief’s Advice – Buy More Guns to Protect Against the Muslims – Video

According to Police Chief Randy Kennedy, the police chief of Hughes Springs in East Texas, the job of his police department would be a lot easier if people buy more guns and use those guns to protect themselves against Muslims.

The chief posted his message on Facebook following President’s address on terrorism, and he told Mr. Obama that he is a “servant” who should forget his secret plan to take people’s guns, because when he comes ‘a knocking, gun lovers will be ready, lock and loaded!

“I watched President Obama tonight and heard what he had to say about confronting terrorism, and I didn’t find his words encouraging at all,” Kennedy explained. “What I’m asking all of my citizens to do, all my law-abiding citizens, I am asking you to help me and our fellow law enforcement officers by arming yourselves.”

“We need to send a message to the criminal element as well to these terrorists and these jihadi who want to murder in the name of their god, and the criminal element that want to go out, you know, and just totally destroy our way of life.”

According to the chief, “nobody who is a legal gun owner has ever wanted to harm or kill anyone.”

Kennedy predicted that law enforcement officers would one day need to be saved by “a group of my citizens.”

“And I don’t want you running out of bullets, and I don’t want you running out of guns before you’re able to pull our bacon out of the fire,” he insisted.

Kennedy urged the president to “understand what the Second Amendment is for.”

“It is there for the American people to protect themselves against the criminal element, to protect themselves against terrorists and radical ideology,” he opined. “And it’s also there to protect us against that has overreached power.”

“You are not our potentate, sir,” the police chief told Obama. “You are our servant. And you were elected to serve and protect us first. And I suggest, sir, since you are a constitutional expert that you better review your history on the Constitution and understand we are a free people and are subject to no one other than the almighty God and Jesus Christ, the king.”

These people are insane.

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Texas Just Executed its 531st Inmate

There must be a trophy or something…

Texas on Wednesday executed a 36-year-old man convicted of killing his daughter and two stepdaughters in a mobile home blaze in 2000.

Raphael Holiday was put to death by lethal injection at the state’s death chamber in Huntsville and pronounced dead at 8:30 p.m., a prisons official said.

He became the 531st inmate executed by Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the most of any state.

“Yes, I would like to thank all of my supporters and loved ones,” he was quoted by prison officials as saying in his last statement.

“I love you, Love y’all, always going to be with y’all. Thank you Warden,” he said.

Holiday was convicted of killing Tierra Lynch, 7; Jasmine DuPaul, 5; and Justice Holiday, 1, in a rural community about 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Houston.

He had been living with Tami Wilkerson, his common law wife at the time, until she secured a restraining order against him for sexually assaulting Tierra, according to the Texas attorney general’s office.

About six months later, Holiday, who had attempted to reconcile with Wilkerson, returned to the house and forced the girls’ grandmother at gunpoint to douse the home with gasoline, which ignited, it said. The grandmother survived.

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Texas Officials to Rename Road – Sandra Bland Parkway

 

Arrested on the most minor of charges and found dead in her jail cell days later, Sandra Bland, the 28-year-old woman who was thrown in jail after being stopped on a minor traffic infraction, is now getting a road in Texas named after her.

Justice???

The City Council in Prairie View, Texas, voted Tuesday to change the name of University Drive to Sandra Bland Parkway, the local KHOU-TV reported. Bland, the 28-year-old Chicago-area woman who was found dead in her jail cell in a county jail just days after she was arrested by a Texas trooper, was expected to begin a new job at Prairie View A&M University before she died.

University Drive stretches from State Highway 290 to Owens Road, where the university’s campus begins. Before the five-member City Council voted to rename the road, family and friends of Bland held a “walk of solidarity” Tuesday afternoon with university student.

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This Black Woman Just Died in Police Custody – Video

Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old woman was pulled over by Texas police last Friday, July 10th and arrested. She was taken to jail and by Monday, she was found dead in her cell. Police is calling her death a suicide. Those who knew Sandra is finding that claim of suicide hard to believe.

“I just couldn’t imagine that someone would say that this woman, that was so strong, would take her own life. She wouldn’t have done that,” said Lanitra Dean, a friend.

KHOU reports below.

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cops Featured Texas

Texas Police to 7 Year Old – No Permit, No Lemonade Stand

And the police Chief is standing by the decision to shut down the stand, telling the local news that his officers must enforce the rules.

The two girls, 7 year old Zoey Green and her 8 year old sister Andria, ventured outside with their pitcher of lemonade on Monday, when they were approached by the Overton cop eager to protect and serve the community from these ruthless thugs.

The cop is heard on a recording telling the mother of the two lawbreakers that they needed a permit to operate the stand.

Apparently realizing the ridiculousness of the cop’s action, the town waived the $125 permit fee when a friend went to inquire about a permit. The girls ended up giving away their lemonade for free.

Way to protect and serve Texas!

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Muslim Hater Pamela Geller Compares Herself to Rosa Parks – Video

I’m sure you’ve all heard of the brilliant idea a conservative group had, to hold a contest for people wishing to draw the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. Of course this was a dumb and insensitive to the entire Muslim community who say its disrespectful to portray their leader in any disparaging way, and the drawing contest idea had disaster written all over it from the very onset.

Thinking that their religious leader was being discredited by the group, two Muslim men went to Texas intent of killing as much people as possible.

In the end, the two men were both shot and killed. And American civilian casualties were at a minimum, and today the terrorist group ISIS claimed responsibility for the men’s action.

We would think that the organizer of this event would have had a chance to reflect on what happened over the last couple of days, and maybe she’d want to set the record straight. But instead, Pamela Geller went on Fox News and double down on the hate and what she thought was a great idea. And in the process, she even found time to compare herself to Rosa Parks.

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Racism Texas

“Exclusively For White People” Signs Popping up In Texas

If a place was going to do it, it had to be Texas. But hold on to your horses, don’t go riding off into the sunset just yet. It seems these signs, displayed on various stores and restaurants, are the work of a few racist people and not sanctioned by the city of Austin ot anyone in power – at least that’s what Austin’s mayor, Steve Adler, said.

“This is an appalling and offensive display of ignorance in our city,” Adler said in a statement. “Austin condemns this type of hurtful behavior. Our city is a place where respect for all people is a part of our spirit and soul. We will keep it that way.”

Bearing a striking resemblance to the official logo of the Texas capital,  the stickers demands that only a “maximum of five colored customers” are allowed in the store at any given time with exception given of course, to “colored” store employees. And below that, the words… “sponsored by the City of Austin” is proudly displayed.

At least eight stores showed the sticker. They have since took those stickers down.

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Texas Republican Wants to Make It a Crime to Film Cops

Here we go again with the FREEDOM loving Republicans. In Texas, this particular FREEDOM loving Republican wants to limit Texans from using their own personal cell phone to videotape a police officer.

So much for freedom.

A bill restricting the rights of citizens to record the police was filed in Texas House of Representatives on Tuesday.

The House Bill 2918 introduced by Texas Representative Jason Villalba (R-Dallas) would make private citizens photographing or recording the police within 25 feet of them a class B misdemeanor, and those who are armed would not be able to stand recording within 100 feet of an officer.

“My bill,” he tweeted on Thursday, “just asks filmers to stand back a little so as not to interfere with law enforcement.” He disagreed with people who said the measure makes filming police illegal.

Villalba introduced his measure to the Texas House this week. His office didn’t immediately respond to msnbc’s request for additional comment.

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Immigration Politics Texas

Texas Judge Blocks Obama’s Immigration Order

A federal judge in South Texas on Monday temporarily blocked President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration, giving a coalition of 26 states time to pursue a lawsuit that aims to permanently stop the orders, the Associated Press reports.

U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen’s decision comes after a hearing in Brownsville in January and puts on hold Obama’s orders that could spare as many as five million people who are in the U.S. illegally from deportation.

Hanen wrote in a memorandum accompanying his order that the lawsuit should go forward and that without a preliminary injunction the states will “suffer irreparable harm in this case.”

“The genie would be impossible to put back into the bottle,” he wrote, adding that he agreed with the plaintiffs’ argument that legalizing the presence of millions of people is a “virtually irreversible” action.

The White House in a statement early Tuesday defended the executive orders issued in November as within the president’s legal authority, saying that the U.S. Supreme Court and Congress have said federal officials can set priorities in enforcing immigration laws.

“The district court’s decision wrongly prevents these lawful, commonsense policies from taking effect and the Department of Justice has indicated that it will appeal that decision,” the statement said. An appeal would be heard by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.

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