If you still don’t believe that certain people are empowered to operate with violence indiscriminately in this country or that the repeated claims of voter fraud pushed by President Trump pose a danger to society, the case of former Houston Police Captain Mark Anthony Aguirre’s arrest on Tuesday for his alleged assault on a civilian in October should clear it up for you.
According
to a release from the Office of the District Attorney in Harris County, Texas, 63-year-old Aguirre is accused of going on a mission on Oct. 19 to reveal supposed evidence of massive election fraud, a mission which ended with him running an innocent air conditioner repairman off the road and putting a gun to his head on the sketchy claim that he had 750,000 fake ballots hidden in his truck.
Court documents referenced in the DA’s statement said that after Aguirre ran his SUV into the back of the AC technician’s truck to force him to stop and get out, he forced the repairman to the ground and put his knee on the man’s back. All of this was captured on the body cam worn by a police officer who accompanied Aguirre on his journey to capture the man who he told them he had been conducting surveillance on for four days.
When it was revealed that the man Aguirre had accosted in front of the cops was just an “innocent and ordinary air conditioner repair technician,” the former police captain then directed them to search the victim’s truck—which the DA’s statement said was filled with nothing but air conditioning parts and tools.
.... After still going on to probe Aguirre’s election fraud claims and finding them baseless, the police found that the right-wing group Liberty Center for God and Country had deposited upwards of $266,000 in his account after the incident—information which he had not shared with them. Liberty Center is headed by Steven F. Hotze, a Texas conservative who has been behind other
messy election interference attempts, and has been generally denying the reality that Trump lost the election.
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