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Your Calls Made the Difference! DA Drops Frivolous Threats Levied at Man Assaulted by Police

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In October the video below was made live, which encouraged viewers to:

Call Kaufman County DA Erleigh N. Wiley (972) 932-4331 ext #4. Tell her to drop the frivolous threats levied at Robert Scott McCollom.

Well, thanks to all the calls you and others made, that happened! On Friday, November 21st, 2014 the case against McCollom dismissed, proving again the power of the court of public opinion.

If you end up in legaland recognize the fact that police, judges, and lawyers – even a lawyer you hire – want you to play their game. If they control the conversation, what facts can be disclosed or not, and every other facet – the outcome is much more likely to be one that favors their failed institution.

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Pete Eyre

Pete Eyre is co-founder of CopBlock.org. As an advocate of peaceful, consensual interactions, he seeks to inject a message of complete liberty and self-government into the conversation of police accountability. Eyre went to undergrad and grad school for law enforcement, then spent time in DC as an intern at the Cato Institute, a Koch Fellow at the Drug Policy Alliance, Directer of Campus Outreach at the Institute for Humane Studies, Crasher-in-Chief at Bureaucrash, and as a contractor for the Future of Freedom Foundation. In 2009 he left the belly of the beast and hit the road with Motorhome Diaries and later co-founded Liberty On Tour. He spent time in New Hampshire home, and was involved with Free Keene, the Free State Project and The Daily Decrypt.