Is PRO Gainesville in more trouble? Update: Probably not

The Gainesville, Texas based group was convicted of a Misdemeanor B offense a year ago for violating the legal limitations of their parade permit on their last protest against the Confederate statue on the Cooke County Courthouse lawn. Per that link, even though I agree with their cause, the arrest was good and the conviction (after their legal beagle, Allison Grinter, was dumb or stubborn enough to refuse a plea bargain, or her clients were), was legit.

Now, the Cooke County Sheriff's Office is looking for three subjects alleged to have vandalized that statue. Or, they were looking. As of late last night, an update at that link says all three have been identified. Names and charges have not been listed.

Update: Only one of the three (and that old FB link is dead, thanks Sheriff Ray Sappington) is alleged to be an actual vandal. Her name is Rebecca Kadlecik, from Pennsylvania, visiting local relatives. Sappington said the repair cost more than $500, but did NOT say it cost more than $750. So, a Class B misdemeanor. Just like PRO Gainesville faced! Will she come back on a warrant? Will the other two face any charges at all?

I've long said that I agree with their ideas but that they WERE lawbreakers. The ACLU's own guidance pamphlet for what one can and cannot do in terms of protest on a parade permit, linked in the first link and also here, ALSO says so, which is why the ACLU of Texas and ACLU national are hypocrites for engaging in fundraising for the group's appeal.

And, I don't know how serious the damage is, but if you're dumb enough to do this in broad daylight at 4:23 p.m., you're dumb enough to deserve being swiftly arrested. Per the update, if you were possibly egged on by others, and from out of town, you're dumber yet.

That said, I don't know if the people allegedly involved have any official connection, if you will, to PRO Gainesville or not.

That said, per the photo below from the Gainesville Independent School District, the guy in the center looks like faux PRO Gainesville dude Tucker Craft. He's pictured at left. Is it him? The center suspect is the right height. Similar glasses. Ears seem similar. (I couldn't get Blogger to properly embed the CCSO Facebook photo, so I'm enlarging on FB.) This person is a good dozen pounds heavier, though. If so, is he not "faux"? Or is this a false flag? This is opinion, and thus First Amendment protected.