Tensions erupted Tuesday, Jan. 14, at the year’s first session of the Tarrant County Commissioners Court.
Sheriff’s Office court deputies detained three people for breaking decorum before and during a briefing by Sheriff Bill Waybourn and other county officials on deaths in the county jail .
Tensions ran high from the session’s start, when Mansfield resident Charlie Hermes shouted the words of the national pledge of allegiance as the rest of the courtroom recited. When the pledge was finished, Hermes continued to shout “including Mason Yancy.”…