Steve Hotze is an asshole who was funding this effort
Hotze was behind the Harris County drive through voting lawsuit and has been an asshole for years. Here is a great example of another potential hate crime this asshole advocated
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/03/steve-hotze-texas-greg-abbott-rioters/
In the days after George Floyd's killing in police custody in Minneapolis last month, as massive protests against police brutality spread across Texas and other states, conservative power broker Steve Hotze of Houston called Gov. Greg Abbott's chief of staff to pass along a message.
"I want you to give a message to the governor," Hotze told Abbott's chief of staff, Luis Saenz, in a voicemail. "I want to make sure that he has National Guard down here and they have the order to shoot to kill if any of these son-of-a-bitch people start rioting like they have in Dallas, start tearing down businesses — shoot to kill the son of a bitches. That’s the only way you restore order. Kill 'em. Thank you."
The voicemail, which The Texas Tribune obtained Friday via a public information request, came on the weekend of June 6, several days after Abbott activated the Texas National Guard as some of the protests became violent. It is unclear whether Saenz responded, and Abbott's office declined to comment on the voicemail.
I have no trouble believing that Hotze paid for and organized this crime and I hope that the Harris County DA charges Hotze
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