This is Troy Nehls, who McCarthy wants to put on the January 6th Commission
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2017/11/21/texas-sheriff-who-waged-a-foolish-fight-over-f-k-trump-bumper-sticker-needs-to-walk-away/
Texas sheriff who waged a foolish fight over 'F--k Trump' bumper sticker needs to walk away
Sheriff who appears to have targeted woman over bumper sticker has only himself to blame for the mess.
Karen Fonseca and her husband advertise their disapproval of the current president with a custom-made sticker on the back window of their pickup that pointedly reads "F--- Trump and f--- you for voting for him." Rude? Yes. Profane? Check.
Illegal? No, and you don't have to be a law scholar to know it. Yet Nehls, who claimed he was acting on vaguely specified "citizen complaints," posted a photo of the truck on his Facebook page, asking for information about who owned it -- and issuing a not-very-veiled threat that the driver might face arrest on charges of disorderly conduct.
Met with a swift outcry that the sticker, while clearly distasteful, does not violate the law, Nehls' department instead arrested and jailed Fonseca on an unrelated charge: a months-old outstanding warrant from another county, reportedly for using a false form of identification two years ago.
Nehls claimed his department "received information" about the outstanding warrant "as a result of the publicity" -- publicity which his own department generated through his ill-advised Facebook post. The explanation did little to dispel the appearance, at least, that the sheriff purposely targeted the 46-year-old mother of 12 over political differences and a tacky bumper sticker.
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