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At the METRO Board meeting yesterday, we met some non-lawyer members of the community who shared our concerns about the creeping police state. The best comments to the METRO Board were, in my view, not made by the lawyers but by these free thinkers. Amberia Smith: Derrick Broze: (When the METRO chairman, Gilbert Garcia, was [...]
Mark Bennett | April 26, 2012
I wrote: METRO says they went where the crime is, but if they had spent eight hours running drug dogs through Park-and-Ride buses they probably would have made as many weed cases, more cocaine cases, and some gun cases for good measure. But affluent white folk ride Park-and-Ride buses. Affluent white folk don’t do their [...]
Mark Bennett | April 24, 2012
A Tarrant County jury awarded Mark and Rhonda Lesher of Clarksville, Texas, the sum on Friday after the couple filed a lawsuit against people writing anonymous, hurtful comments about them online. (KHOU.) One of the defendants, Shannon Coyel, had accused the Leshers of sexually assaulting her in 2008. The Leshers were indicted, went to trial, [...]
Mark Bennett | April 23, 2012
HCCLA President Earl Musick’s letter to the Houston Chronicle on the subject of METRO VIPRgate: Objection to searches Regarding “Undercover officers ride buses in anti-terror effort” (Page B2, Thursday), the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association (HCCLA), which represents more than 600 area criminal-defense lawyers, is alarmed that Metro Police Chief Victor Rodriguez invited Transportation Security [...]
Mark Bennett | April 20, 2012
Last month I blogged about the Harris County Republican Party and the Harris County Public Defender's Office, talking about what I called "the greed angle": that former HCRP chair Gary Polland, who is still influential in the party, is trying to use the party (by, among other things, deceiving the party's constituents) to protect his [...]
Mark Bennett | April 20, 2012
Friday's operation occurred from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eight felony arrests were made in one shift, compared to five last month. (METRO blog.) Here's a PDF of an Excel file METRO produced in response to a request for a list of arrests made in the course of "Operation Bus Safe" 13 April 2012. (NB [...]
Mark Bennett | April 20, 2012
Today I was on Geoff Berg’s Partisan Gridlock radio show on Pacifica radio station KPFT, along with METRO Police Chief Victor Rodriguez. It was an hour-long show, but only the first half seems to have been recorded to MP3. Also, it didn’t broadcast over the airwaves in some of the KPFT service area once I [...]
Mark Bennett | April 18, 2012
We have heard talk of “justice.” Is there anybody who knows what justice is? No one on earth can measure out justice. Can you look at any man and say what he deserves—whether he deserves hanging by the neck until dead or life in prison or thirty days in prison or a medal? The human [...]
Mark Bennett | April 18, 2012
METRO press release 13 April: (Source.) METRO blog post 16 April: (Source.) METRO twitter account 18 April: (Source.) I’m guessing someone talked to a lawyer and realized that random bag checks aren’t such a hot idea, Constitutionally speaking. So we agree on that. Now, METRO, let’s get together and send TSA packing.
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