“In America, we don’t arrest our critics,”
The only thiung that should be arrested is critics if they re ones that break the law. All criminals are critics of the system. That’s why they break it.
But she was not arrested for being a critic. She was arrested for concealing a government record, a misdemeanor that would have resulted in her removal from office if she had been convicted.
The charge was based on what she describes as an honest mistake: After a city council meeting, she says, she accidentally picked up a bundle of petitions against City Manager Ryan Rapelye—petitions that she herself had organized—and placed it in her binder along with other papers.
The mayor asked her for the document and she said she had no idea where it was while it was in her possession. Accidental or not, it can violate title 8, chapter 38 of the Texas penal code.
https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.37.htm
She will win her case because they can’t prove it was intentional. And she’s pressing it due to her embarrassment of public disclosure, not the legalities of the arrest. So it’s up to the prosecution to prove an intentional act. That’s tough to do.
wy69
Dude ...
It was a chickenshit arrest and everybody knows it. Why are you trying to make excuses for it?