
Yeah, I’m going to keep talking about this because right now, to me, it looks like Chambers did a rash, dumb action, in conjunction with capricious Trey Brown, by deciding to, on the spot on May 9, 2025 issue a CT warning against me, AND apparently tell the Somervell County police to remove me from a public hallway in the Annex. This was a violation of my civil rights. Did Brown mistakenly believe that I had done something illegal? Did they think, THAT DAY, that I was anywhere in the annex except at the clerk’s office or in the Commissioner’s Admin office (which incidentally has NO sign about recording)
I have done a couple of open records requests. One was for body cam video from any of the Somervell County cops that were involved in this action (That was Greg Sharp and William Resto’s body cam video, Jeff Haynes did not have his body cam on, nor the other 2 cops that came to participate). The second has yet to be fulfilled- I asked for video from the public hallways for that date and a limited time and Trey Brown does not want me to get it and has contested to the AG (maybe) to prevent me. I do wonder why he would not want me to have that video-is that because it shows that I was not trespassing? It’s certainly weird
I did not have the benefit of the body cam video on my first post about this. After Jeff the cop told me I was being CT’d, I turned on my cell phone to record. It was not on before that, and at that point I had a witness, who was in the public office across the hall from the clerk’s office, to attest to that. Now, I have the other part of the body cam video that shows I was in the public hallway before I turned on my phone. I have pixelated this video as I do not believe that I, as the victim, should have to fully show myself.
Notice as you watch this that, first, even as Resto enters the building (apparently somebody had called in to have more cops arrive because, you know, I am, hah, such a danger) that I am standing in the middle of the hallway, sort of in front of the door to the clerk’s office. I asked Jeff why this was happening “For what reason?” and he said “I don’t know, I don’t know. I was told to issue a warrant”. I said “Hold on, I have to record this because this is ridiculous”. I also want you to pay attention to my tone of voice, Another cop showed up at that point, so from the body cam there was at that point 4 cops, all for me. I then had two cops ordering me to get out of the public hallway. I then said “You’re giving me a criminal trespass warning for having come into the clerk’s office ” In fact, it is not against the law to record in a public hallway, so this was more than an overreach, it appears to be breaking the law.
Adding that that Danny Chambers said to issue was not written down so Jeff the cop was *following orders* apparently. However, as Alan West, Sheriff, told me, an order like that could not issued by just anyone but only by the Judge. Did Danny, who as the judge where we assume judges to look at the facts and make impartial decisions, even try before issuing the warning to see if Brown was even correct or had a leg to stand on? Nope. How can anyone trust what he does as judge with that lack of concern?
Notice also that he tries to shift the decision to Trey Brown, who probably is the one who went off half-cocked, for sure, but it is ALSO, since Chambers issued the directive, his ultimate responsibility. He says he has not seen me for 6 months (I was ill with repeated respiratory issues) and insulted me. He can sure do that, I mean, he doesn’t have to like me and can be annoyed by me, but the idea that I would even consider going to him for court when he is showing himself to be biased is ridiculous. Further, it is apparent that the decision to do that came THAT DAY, May 9 2025. I think these goofballs might have thought I was in a commissioner’s office recording, even though I had NOT been anyplace between the clerk’s office and the admin office, only one commissioner was even there which I found out NOT THEN but later in the entire encounter when I said Arrest ME. So they could NOT have seen me doing what they alleged to be illegal that required a trespass warning.. and yet, issued it anyway and again, directed apparently the cop to get me out of the building. Imagine this happening to YOU, you’d be unhappy that these 2 guys did whatever they wanted without benefit of obeying or citing any law and with ZERO evidence, because it didn’t exist, that I was *trespassing* on May 9 2025.
Most disturbing to me is that none of the cops called Alan West, Sheriff, to see if what I was saying was true or not. He had been at some event that morning at the school so he was not there at the Annex, but there are phones, right? West had previously told me, some months earlier, that if anyone tried to arrest me, he would have his cops ignore it because EVEN IF I HAD BEEN RECORDING WHICH WAS I WAS NOT, it is not breaking a law to do it and Texas is a one party recording state. (In fact, notice that even thought the cops in the hallway initially were kerfluffed that I had pulled out my phone to record in a public hallway, it was NOT illegal to do so, and they should not have tried to remove me from the building, just upon the sayso of Despot Danny Chambers. It’s a little sad not only that none of them apparently knew what me taking out my phone and recording in the public hallway was legal.
Finally, IF, in the past anyone had thought I had done something illegal that would warrant in the future a CT warning, no one let ME know, including Danny Chambers or Trey Brown until I was ambushed in the hallway on a baloney pretext. Shame on Danny Chambers and Shame on Trey Brown. I think Somervell County deserves better than these 2 in public office.