Posted on 06/14/2025 8:22:03 PM PDT by Morgana
Law enforcement officers locked down and evacuated the Texas Capitol Saturday afternoon due to a threat against lawmakers planning to attend the “No Kings” rally. The grounds re-opened and the protest continued after Texas Department of Public Safety troopers arrested a man in connection to the threat.
A traffic stop near La Grange, Texas, led to the arrest of a man who allegedly made threats against lawmakers planning to attend the “No Kings” protest scheduled for Saturday evening in Austin. La Grange is located about 65 miles southeast of the Texas Capital City.
Troopers briefly shut down and evacuated the Capitol and the grounds until the threat was resolved. Breitbart Texas’s Randy Clark is in Austin to cover the demonstration and observed the closed grounds when he arrived.
Clark reported the grounds re-opened later in the afternoon and protesters began to stream onto the Capitol grounds.
DPS officials say there is no longer a threat, but the investigation remains ongoing. Breitbart Texas reached out to DPS officials for additional information. None was available at press time. Officials pledged to release more details when they are available.
The threat against Texas lawmakers comes on the same day that a Minnesota man allegedly shot and killed the speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives and her husband. The man also allegedly shot and wounded a state senator and his wife, Breitbart reported.
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I was 12 years old when this was in the news.
“...A traffic stop near La Grange, Texas, led to the arrest...”
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Just let me know
if you want to go
to that home out on the range
(you know what I’m talking about)
This is the fruit of democrat party rule and words.
A-haw haw haw-haw
Heh, a-haw haw-haw
Got a lotta nice girls...
I’ve been to the Texas Capitol while the legislature was in session. It was quite interesting to sit in the gallery to see and hear the members speaking after previously only seeing them on TV. The security seemed to be quite good, with metal detectors and screening required to get inside the buildings. The guards were friendly and gave helpful directions on good places to go. Once inside, visitors could freely walk around most anywhere including eating lunch in the same cafeteria where members were eating. There was no obvious way to get from the gallery to the house floor, many feet below the gallery floor. I’m sure the actual passage had additional security and screening.
We took our younger daughter and one of her friends to the Capitol when she was in high school. I had a ccp and was carrying. My ccp was “judge/prosecutor”, meaning I can go anywhere, but sometimes you have to educate people about that and I was ready to do so. We walk inside and there’s a sign that says “CCP holders this way”. They checked my card and said I was good to go. Love me some Texas.
So, uhh, someone called into the Tx legislature and told a would-be traitor to stand down? OK.
The crowd was small, does not surprise me.
They tried the same renta-mob crap at the Alamo a few years back. That did not fly either. They were met with an armed crowd on 2nd show up.
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