AUSTIN (Talk1370.com) -- An incident involving a Biden campaign bus and a so-called "Trump Train" is headed to court, according to a federal lawsuit.
The suit, filed Thursday, alleges the Trump supporters violated the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, along with Texas state law when they surrounded the bus as it was traveling north on Interstate 35 between San Antonio and Austin. Dozens of trucks with Trump and American flags honked at the bus, and tried to slow it down.
A second lawsuit was also filed against San Marcos police officials, including San Marcos director of public safety Chase Stapp, and the city marshal's department. The suit alleges law enforcement "turned a blind eye to the attack" on the bus, and failed to provide a police escort.
Former state Sen. Wendy Davis is among the plaintiffs in both suits, along with Biden-Harris campaign staffers and the bus driver.
"What Defendants cannot do under the law is use force, intimidation, or threats against those with whom they disagree politically. Yet that is precisely what Defendants did by conspiring to use their vehicles as weapons to interfere with the constitutional rights of those who supported the Biden-Harris Campaign," the lawsuit reads. "The Constitution’s guarantee of free speech, association, and assembly is empty if those rights cannot be freely exercised. And where groups are permitted to terrorize those with whom they disagree into forgoing their constitutional rights, the functioning of our democracy demands accountability."
The freeway confrontation led to Democrats canceling three scheduled events across Central Texas, due to "safety concerns."