[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] This is the shocking moment an armed Texas police chief had a bizarre confrontation with a Marine veteran in a video that has since gone viral.
A community barbecue was held in Bayou Vista City
…a small town in Galveston County, population under 2000 in the last census — mostly white, less than 10% Hispanic, a couple percent all the usual categories…
on Sunday to feed some residents in the area after Hurricane Beryl ravaged the area last week leaving more than 288,000 people without power. BBQ is serious business
As the meat was cooking on the grill, Bayou Vista City Police Chief Jimmie Gillane stopped by to tell city alderman Danny Rambin to shut it down following a directive from Mayor Paula Eshelman, ABC 13 News reported.
Rambin told Click 2 Houston he got permission from the Mayor to barbecue on both days and on Saturday he'd served about 300 people - but on Sunday the Mayor changed her mind for unknown reasons.
'Well then I woke up Sunday morning to a text from the mayor telling me I would not be able to use the community center, the pavilion, or anything affiliated with Bayou Vista,' Rambin told the news outlet.
'(She said) if I wanted to do it again I needed to use my house, and I asked her why and she wouldn’t give me a reason she said 'because I said so,'' he explained.
That sounds like classical petty small-town politics.
Still, the event went ahead out of necessity.
At the event, a fiery exchange erupted between the local police chief and Marine veteran Ray Stone, who intervened in an attempt to get answers about why the event was being shut down.
'I don't know. I'm not talking to you. You are a disgrace in my eyes,' the chief is heard saying on the video. 'As a Marine, I am right here. I'm in your s---. You don't come here and tell me the truth. You are a piece of s***.'
Marine Veteran Ray Stone recorded Sunday's incident on his phone and was appalled by Chief Gillane's behavior, and believes he should be removed.
'The chief of police got into a citizen's face with a gun belt on, OK. I didn't react to him. I think the chief, and a lot of people think the chief, should be removed,' Stone said.
The weekend barbecue for the community was started by resident Paul Sukal and his wife. The group initially set up the tent in the Bayou Vista City Hall parking lot but then moved to the community pool across the street.
After the fiasco, Chief Gillane stood by his actions.
'I will not back down. I stand by what I said,' he said to the news outlet. 'My boss gave me a directive and I went over there and asked why they were there.'
Paul Sukal, one of the residents that arranged the barbecue felt that the matter wasn't handled correctly.
Rambin told KPRC2 News that he proceeded with the barbecue as planned because it was a 'dire need.'
At least 600 residents were fed during the barbecue after they lost power from Hurricane Beryl.
#1
Bayou Vista is a town on the coast that sits so low that when a storm surge is predicted, the residents go park along the highway bridges to keep their vehicles out of the water.
Totally not kidding here.
Next door Hitchcock, TX, with a 10 ft elevation is considered "high ground".
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07/17/2024 8:12 Comments ||
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Mayors are elected and unelected.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
07/17/2024 11:18 Comments ||
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Mills made it *very* clear that he was simply examining all options for what may have happened.
Let me say that again: Mills made it very clear that he was not asserting the incident was a setup but said it should be considered during an investigation.
Cory Mills served in the U.S. Army as a member of the 82nd Airborne Division and Joint Special Operations Command.
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#1
Someone who would know, but wants to remain anonymous, just told me the killer's AR15 was a DPMS made in 2013.
Obviously I have no way to confirm this but I've known the source for roughly a decade and he's never steered me wrong on these things so I'm pretty confident passing… pic.twitter.com/U2B9pQscUt
#3
So the building's roof and the water tower with line of site to the stage were left unprotected? Are we supposed to imagine the sniper crews, whose orders were not to shoot unless shots were fired, were in charge of covering the perimeter?
#8
The Federalist is correct in my opinion. Biden allowed an assassination attempt on Trump. We have no idea how many other times they left him vulnerable and nothing happened.
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Forgot to mention. How did he get an AR past the metal detectors?
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07/17/2024 9:52 Comments ||
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Cleared - the location was outside of the secured perimeter.
#11
There was a vulnerability in the security plan either by intent or incompetence, but how does the kid walk right in to the vulnerable area when everyone would assume that the roof would be covered? Also, there is no way that that soft kid carried a 10 foot ladder even 100 yards.
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CTH has an interesting take. Comments are not bad.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/07/16/sketchy-business-behind-thomas-matthew-crooks/
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CTH notices that a 20 year old in 2024 with no social media presence is off; especially one who was in a professional commercial.
#15
No one saw dude walking around with a ladder, gun, range finder, duffle bag, etc - am not buying it.
Crowd sourced: some people in attendance said they saw them tow an abandoned van w/ AZ plates.
Crowd sourced: multiple other people swore they saw another gunman.
This thing is a mess. And now they say they knew about an iranian plot to kill Trump, but still diverted SS to Jill's speaking engagement, then back filled Trump's security detail with the D Team and a Fatty DEI Hire. Yikes.
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a 20 year old in 2024 with no social media presence
That was something bothering me. A curious data point in this day and age, unless he was being actively "managed".
No one saw dude walking around with a ladder, gun, range finder, duffle bag, etc
A local cop called in a report about a suspicious person using a range finder just outside of the security screening. But they lost the guy in the crowd until bystanders saw him on the roof - the roof of the most obvious place to shoot from that was somehow officially "outside the security perimeter". I assume they posted "No Shooting From Beyond This Point" signs as part of the site prep.
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I believe it is about to be established that authorities knew: who, where, how and when, and still allowed events to move forward. That's called "being in on it".
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JUST IN: CNN host loses it after former US Army sn*per Cory Mills suggests the July 13 assas*ination attempt on Trump
Here's my thing, and just being curious, and it is a matter of semantics:
It was successful....right up until the very literal last second..and still got a hit.
Working backwards should be done by now. One of my questions was, how well was communication being conducted? To use the cliche, what was known and when?
[NYPOST] Embattled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle acknowledged the "buck stops with me" as she responded to criticism of her agency’s disastrous handling of former President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons... ’s attempted liquidation — but refused to resign from her post.
"It was unacceptable," Cheatle told ABC News Monday of her agency’s response to Saturday’s Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pa. "And it’s something that shouldn’t happen again."
Cheatle has faced steadily increasing pressure to step down after overseeing security at the event which 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks fired multiple shots with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle from a nearby rooftop, wounding former President Trump and two others and killing a former firefighter.
"It was obviously a situation that as a Secret Service agent, no one ever wants to occur in their career," she told the outlet.
"The buck stops with me. I am the director of the Secret Service, and I need to make sure that we are performing a review and that we are giving resources to our personnel as necessary."
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@4 This still doesn't explain why the SS didn't rush Trump off the stage immediately after learning that a suspicious individual who was likely armed and possibly a sniper was close by at at dangerous distance.
Overly restrictive ROE with regards to firearm use at a public event may be somewhat understandable.
Overly restrictive ROE with regards to purely defensive measures when confronted with a credible, likely deadly threat are unjustifiable.
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The FBI director has a 10 year term and will be fired. The SS director is a regular appointment. She will resign along with all the other clowns near to shift change. She will be hired by somebody in the private sector that isn’t at risk of being assassinated.
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Very bad smell and the investigation hasn't even begun. Just like 9/11, they tried once and they will try again. Trump needs to bring in his own team of security advisors.
#13
I would recommend transportation decoys, both air and ground. I would also recommend increased security for Trump and Vance families. Future Trump rally activity could be VTC Jumbo Screen. Inauguration event should be downsized or VTC.
[NYP via MSM] The Biden administration has been flying migrants from California, which is being overrun, to Texas — where Gov. Greg Abbott’s tough border control measures have deterred illegal crossings into the state, The Post can reveal.
For the last month, pricey Border Patrol charter flights on commercial-sized planes have been hauling border crossers from San Diego to Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, sources told The Post.
Sources say the flights, which have been operating every week, cost an estimated $80,000 and are known for being "extremely expensive."
Photos also show dozens of migrants shackled by the ankles boarding the planes, which are operated by a contractor, in San Diego. Newcomers shackled? Shackled? In Newsome's California? By Biden's Border Patrol? Border facilities in San Diego don’t have the operational capacity to deal with the numbers of migrants entering the region, and a number of loopholes in the Biden administration’s new border policies have made it tougher to deport certain people crossing the border.
According to internal federal data, Border Patrol has transported roughly 400 migrants to Texas’ Rio Grande Valley region, where the flights are landing, since the Biden administration’s asylum restrictions started on June 6.
In the Lone Star State, restrictions enacted by Abbott, including increased National Guard troops and barricades at the border, have been effective in limiting the number of migrant crossings.
In one glaring example this spring, after Texas troops moved in to secure Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, crossings dropped from 2,000 to 3,000 a day to around five, according to Texas’ Department of Public Safety (DPS).
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Naturally.
The O'Biden Admin needs more votes in Texas come Nov. 2024 ☺
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[NYP via MSM] The Biden administration has been flying migrants from California, which is being overrun, to Texas — where Gov. Greg Abbott’s tough border control measures have deterred illegal crossings into the state, The Post can reveal.
Border facilities in San Diego don’t have the operational capacity to deal with the numbers of migrants entering the region, and a number of loopholes in the Biden administration’s new border policies have made it tougher to deport certain people crossing the border. 
