Downtown Brownwood
Pride in Brownwood was going to be a film festival.
“Things have gotten real here in Brownwood,” film festival director Brock Cravy said.
Now, he said, he fears for his life. Here’s a transcript of the complaint he said he filed:
On April 28, 2022, at approximately 10:30 am, I entered the Brown County and City of Brownwood Law Enforcement Center to meet with the Chief of Police for a safety meeting regarding The Pride of Texas Film Fest that is to take place in downtown Brownwood from June 10-12, 2022. I approached the visitor’s window in the center of the room. I introduced myself and let the woman know that I had an appointment with Chief Kading. She asked me to have a seat and that she would let him know. I took a seat at the Sheriff’s Office side, next to their visitor’s window. Immediately, I heard a woman yell, “No. No. It’s owned by two lesbians!” I assumed that she was referring to the owners of the festival venue, 10 Mile Productions. Then the entire office began yelling in chorus. “We will not accept them! We will not tolerate him! Who is that guy? Where does he think he is?”
What was so chilling was that they were in concert, each public servant struggling to speak louder than the other so that they could exclaim their disgust. Then I heard a slender woman in a black dress say, “We aren’t to judge them,” or something very similar. Then the older woman with the short hair yelled back, “It’s our job as Christians to correct them! They must be corrected!” She screamed this about three times. Then, a man with a booming voice declared at the top of his lungs, “I’m not going to kill him! I’m not going to hurt him! But I will never accept him! I’ll never tolerate it!” Then more incoherent yelling. I had never been more frightened in my life. A public servant, a member of law enforcement, made a statement about me that implied that “killing me” and “hurting me” was an option. Furthermore, I can’t imagine a single scenario where a member of law enforcement needed to remind his colleagues that he wasn’t going to commit murder or assault. Unbeknownst to them, I was just outside their window, and I heard it all. They did not realize that I was “him.”
When Ed Kading, the Chief of Police, called me back into his office, he noticed that I was visibly shaking. He and a social worker named Rachel Derrington calmed me down, reassuring me of my safety. He then got on the phone with someone and demanded to speak to the highest-ranking officer under the Sheriff. He came and listened and retorted with an assumption that when the woman with the short hair yelled, “They must be corrected.” She meant “Bring me to God.” He said that he would not apologize for other peoples actions, and that he couldn’t speak for them.
I am deeply concerned for my life, and I fear retaliation from the Brownwood County Sheriff’s office. I’ve called the Sheriff personally, twice, with no response. I returned to the law enforcement center on Thursday, May 12, 2022, to make a formal complaint and request surveillance footage of the Sheriff’s Office visitor’s window on April 28, 2022, from 10:30 am to roughly 10:50 am.
— David Taffet
Y’all make being gay your only personality trait. Stop advertising who you sleep with and having all these festivals and parades showing off your gayness. It’s weird. Leave west Tx alone. Y’all stay in oaklawn if you scared.
Then stay your ass in west Texas, it’s a piece of shit anyway!! Don’t come to DFW for anything!! Don’t bring your uneducated trash to civilization!! I was raised in Brownwood and it’s a bunch of bigoted hypocrites!! 🤮🖕trumps a con man and a pedofile by the way!! Just to list 2 of a long list of his criminal encounters! 🖕🖕🖕
Con man and pedo? Give some evidence libtard
Point of information: Brownwood is not in West Texas.
Did Jussie Smollett write y’all’s article?? I thought it he was in jail 😂
Honestly anything Smolett could have written, might have been more believable.
You say that ut there are so many gay people that live right there in Brownwood. I know this because I know many of then. Trust me when I say gay events qre nothing like they were years ago. What I am still trying to figure out is where God gives those so called Christians the right to correct anything. As far as I can tell God doesn’t need their help. People need to spend mire time worry about their own salvation. On top of all that we live in a free country. Which clearly states separation of church and state. If people like them would live and let live we would have any of these problems. They force us to be out and loud. We have the right to exist the way God created us. I am pretty quiet about being gay but I don’t hide it either. I don’t put it in anyone’s face until they open their mouth in front of me slamming other idea and believes.
Hate to tell you that separation of church and state is not in The constitution.
“The first amendment to the US Constitution states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” The two parts, known as the “establishment clause” and the “free exercise clause” respectively, form the textual basis for the Supreme Court’s interpretations of the “separation of church and state” doctrine,” as per “The Constitution of the United States Defined and Carefully Annotated,” by George Paschal.
And, “Three central concepts were derived from the 1st Amendment which became America’s doctrine for church-state separation: no coercion in religious matters, no expectation to support a religion against one’s will, and religious liberty encompasses all religions. In sum, citizens are free to embrace or reject a faith, and support for religion – financial or physical – must be voluntary, and all religions are equal in the eyes of the law with no special preference or favoritism,” as per “A Delicate Balance,” by Rob Boston.
I don’t mean any offense, but if you’re visibly shaken, you ain’t the man for this job. I would never let them see me shaken or afraid by their bigotry. Man the F up!! You were acting as weak as they believe you to be.
Having been around law enforcement in Central.Texas for more 35 years i have serious doubts about the frightening episode narrated in this story. First there is never that many people in the window office.
If David Taffett would like to make trip to Brownwood., visit some of the owners of various businesses i am sure he would feel welcomed and unafraid.
EDITOR’S NOTE: At some point on Tuesday evening, May 17, someone using the screen name “Cheif Kading” left a derogatory comment on this article. That person was apparently trying to imply that the comment came from Brownwood Police Chief Ed Kading. That comment has been deleted at the request of Chief Kading and Brownwood city officials.
I do not believe one word of this article.
Most of it’s not true anyhow
Complete nonsense. There are several profitable and booming businesses that are LOVED in Brownwood that just HAPPEN to be run by homosexual individuals. We are a welcoming town, by and large, and wish no ill will towards people who think or live differently than we do. (Yes, there are some who disagree with me intown. That is true regardless of which city you may be in.) This is an attempt to create dirision where there is none.