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Two days after the September 11 attacks in 2001, a 19-year-old man named Jared Dailey stood on the street corner facing WBC holding up a plywood sign that said "Not today, Fred." Within two days, 86 people joined him, waving American flags and anti-hate signs.
Additionally, the study identified six “terrorist plots” in Texas and two extremist murders. The Southern Poverty Law Center tracked 72 hate and anti-government groups in Texas in 2022. Here ...
The festivities are held all day on the 4th Saturday of June. The highlight of the event is the parade, which has been held in the evening after sunset since 1997. The necessary revision in a Houston parade ordinance to allow a nighttime parade was facilitated by then-Houston City Council member Annise Parker. With the event after dark, the ...
Fans wait in front of the stage in the post parade celebration area during the Texas Rangers World Series Parade in Arlington, Texas, Friday, Nov. 03, 2023. (Special to the Star-Telegram Bob Booth)
Watch what you say,” said Martin, the elected chair of the Democratic Party of Hood County, who once described herself on X as a "Locally hated/Dyslexic Hairstylist." “This is Texas," she aded.
By 2008 the one parade per day rule, with the prized parade day decided by a coin toss, was again in place. [107] The Houston Press ranked the 2006 MLK day parade, when the two rival parades joined, as the "Best Parade Houston 2006". [108] Service projects and voter registration drives also occur on MLK Day in Houston. [105]
Police across North Texas have had a number of run-ins with neo-Nazis who distribute flyers and show up at public events. One used a fake name to speak before the Fort Worth City Council.
On April 27, 1979, 64-year-old Ira Attebury opened fire on the spectator crowd at the Battle of Flowers parade in San Antonio, Texas, killing two and injuring several dozen, including several police officers. It proceeded into a siege for over an hour, before the perpetrator then killed himself.