I'm assuming they meant, "encouraging people to let the air out of tires of SUVs", which sounds like a bigger crime than walking through the U.S. Capitol carrying an American flag to me.
Willfully damaging someone’s property is criminal mischief in Texas. Doing that after dark in Texas is enough to get you killed. Force is authorised at all times to protect or defend tangible and or movable property in Texas which is defined farther up in the statute vehicles are in it my name no.ambiguity in the law there they are both tangible and movable property. Deadly force is specifically authorised after dark provided you are already authorised to use force in Sec. 9.41
Sec. 9.41. PROTECTION OF ONE’S OWN PROPERTY. (a) A person in lawful possession of land or tangible, movable property is justified in using force against another when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to prevent or terminate the other’s trespass on the land or unlawful interference with the property.
(b) A person unlawfully dispossessed of land or tangible, movable property by another is justified in using force against the other when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to reenter the land or recover the property if the actor uses the force immediately or in fresh pursuit after the dispossession and:
(1) the actor reasonably believes the other had no claim of right when he dispossessed the actor; or
(2) the other accomplished the dispossession by using force, threat, or fraud against the actor.