ECTOR COUNTY, Texas — The protest group that rallied outside of Big Daddy Zane’s and Anytime Fitness in Odessa are back at it again Wednesday.
This time it’s personal and aimed at Ector County Sheriff Mike Griffis.
They’re rallying at places like the Ector County Sheriff’s Office and a home the group believes belongs to the sheriff.
They’re angry over how the sheriff’s office responded to the rally on Monday outside of Big Daddy Zane’s that ended in the arrest of eight people.
The same group rallied in Frisco, Salon a la Mode in Dallas, Oyster Creek and now in Odessa.
Sheriff Griffis still stands by the arrests they made on Monday, though he never expected this kind of reaction.
The sheriff tells NewsWest 9 they’ve been getting hundreds of threatening phone calls, emails and texts every since Monday’s protest.
He says enough is enough, and if you want to get your message across there’s a better way to go about it.
Protest leader Philip Archibald, who lives in Dallas, traveled to West Texas this week to advocate for small businesses like gyms, salons and bars to reopen.
Even more people drove to West Texas Wednesday to join Archibald, this time rallying against how the sheriff’s office responded to Monday’s protest outside.
“People just kind of show up, I put it out on social media and they just show up as they can,” said Archibald.
The sheriff‘s office says this protest is different. In fact, Sheriff Griffis says things are getting out of hand.
“I’m getting calls from all over the country threatening to shoot me, I mean it’s just been crazy,” Griffis said.
The protesters even planned a rally outside of the sheriff’s home Wednesday evening.
“I feel bad for anyone who didn’t have anything to do with this, like my family or my ex-family’s house,” said Griffis.
Archibald says any threats being made to the sheriff and his office are a justified reaction to what happened Monday.
“I have no control over that. That’s people being angry over what he did and he deserves that,” Archibald said
The sheriff has a simple message for the protesters:
“All these people that are here from wherever you came from, just go home and get yourself a job.”
The sheriff’s office tells NewsWest 9 that they are continuing their investigation into what happened Monday, and that they will take legal action against those who threaten the sheriff’s office.
To make sure staff from the sheriff’s office are safe, the Midland County Sheriff’s Office as well as the Odessa and Midland Police Departments have been made aware of the situation and are helping where needed.
““All these people that are here from wherever you came from, just go home and get yourself a job.”
My God! This is all that FAT SLOB has to say for being a TYRANT! They shut down the business & fat SLOB says go home and get a job.
Corporate enforcers are in for one heck of a ride!!!
“I feel bad for anyone who didn’t have anything to do with this, like my family or my ex-family’s house,” said Griffis.
WRONG! Everything you’ve done at your so called “job” has had to do with US and OUR families so it has everything to do with YOU and YOURS. Fair is fair but YOU didn’t give a f as long as you got your shekels and your arse sucked.
Boo f’g hoo, cry baby.
“He says enough is enough, and if you want to get your message across there’s a better way to go about it”.
Exactly, you arrogant criminal in a uniform, we are highly aware of what other ways to get the message across to criminals in costumes like yourselves across this whole country; is.
I am thinking you and yours are not going to be very happy when the real Americans decide to start showing you exactly what our messages are.
We don’t protest, we don’t show up armed to the teeth for our cause and then let some fk take our arms and arrest us, we have no fear of you and your masters tyranny and threats at any level, we have no intention of letting you and your master take us to the next level of tyranny and gun control without a complete and total engagement.
As Koernke always says, it will be equal opportunity dying time.
Arrogant criminals violating our bill of rights on a daily basis. Nothing new, but gonna change.
“I’m getting calls from all over the country threatening to shoot me, I mean it’s just been crazy,” Griffis said.
Hahaha Fck stick
Now you know how WE feel every day we go out hoping we don’t run across a tyrant like YOU
Cry me a friggen river … a friggen blue one