A 72-year-old Texas man was arrested and charged with assault and resisting arrest after he started attacking people at a Turn Rural Texas Blue rally in Burnet County this past Saturday, the Dallas Tribune reports.
Reynol P. Gray faces a class A misdemeanor charge and a state felony charge for assaulting a 68-year-old man who was standing near the stage. Dressed in pro-Trump and MAGA clothing, Gray pushed his way to the stage where organizers had formed a human wall to prevent him from disrupting the speakers, which included Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Mike Collier and state Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa.
Gray started yelling profanities and organizers called police after threatening the people blocking him from the stage. Marble Falls Police Sgt. Cory Munoz responded and tried to pull Gray away, but Gray resisted.
“(Gray) waited until a woman started her speech and walked right down to the stage,” a witness said. “Several of the organizers walked up and made a human wall. He started yelling and threatening them with physical violence. It was, up to that point, a very peaceful gathering.”
“I began to approach the scene cautiously when I observed the suspect, who was later identified as the male, pushing someone,” Munoz wrote in the probable cause affidavit. “The defendant was wearing Trump attire. As I began to run over to the defendant, I then observed a male defending himself and pinning the defendant against the stage.”