Posted on 03/23/2021 11:45:32 AM PDT by BenLurkin
An Arizona man has been arrested after he cut off and held at gunpoint a caravan of National Guardsmen transporting COVID-19 vaccines to Matador, Texas around 7 a.m. this morning, according to Idalou Police.
Larry Harris, of Willcox, Arizona, is accused of following three National Guardsmen vans from Love’s Travel Station on East Regis Street in Lubbock to about two miles east of Idalou. Police say Harris attempted multiple times to run the vans off of the roadway. He then turned his vehicle into oncoming traffic on Hwy. 62/82 and stopped the vans. He then pointed a gun at an unarmed National Guardsman, identified himself as a detective, and demanded to search the vehicles and ordered the rest of the unarmed guardsmen out of their vehicles at gunpoint.
Harris told police he thought the people in the vans had kidnapped a woman and child. All 11 of the guardsmen were in uniform.
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Honestly, in Texas, the NG have traditionally never been deployed armed. When assisting on the border, they serve as lookouts with government assets, but not armor and notify the overwhelmed border patrol of active entry points.
I’m confused about when the point is “okay” for any NG force to actually “nation guard”?
I know.
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