The Texas Tribune reports:
Newly released video shows U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Amarillo, being slammed to the ground by police and angrily confronting a state trooper with profanity during a hectic altercation late last month at a rodeo outside Amarillo. “You are a fucking full-on dick!” Jackson told the trooper after being brought off the ground, according to bodycam footage provided by the Department of Public Safety. “You better recalculate, motherfucker!”
The DPS trooper, identified in a sheriff’s report as “Trooper Young,” repeatedly told Jackson that multiple people asked him to step aside so EMS could respond to a medical emergency. “I’m gonna call the governor tomorrow and I’m gonna talk to him about this shit because this is fuckin’ ridiculous,” Jackson told Young at one point. “Fuckin’ ridiculous.” DPS released the 31-minute bodycam video Monday in response to an open records request from The Texas Tribune.
Read the full article. Jackson denies having been drunk. He later called the county sheriff and threatened to run him out of office.
I’m glad the video is out. It shows the incompetence of the authorities and their complete disregard for the young girl in distress. We have the best Sheriffs in the country here in the panhandle and north Texas. Unfortunately, the Sheriff in Carson County is not among them.
— Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) August 15, 2023
I will apologize for my language, but I will not apologize for getting upset & speaking my mind considering the circumstances. If I had to do it again, I would still step up & act in a life-threatening situation. I will ALWAYS help someone in need. I WILL NOT apologize for that.
— Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) August 15, 2023
GOP Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas was described as aggressive and threatening by members of law enforcement the night he was detained by authorities after assisting in a chaotic, confusing medical situation at a rodeo, according to a Texas sheriff’s report https://t.co/r0HStyH3K9
— CNN (@CNN) August 15, 2023
