Police arrested a man in Texas early Wednesday morning for saying “bullshit” at a public city meeting a week earlier.
Police in Fort Worth, Texas pulled over local radio host and political activist EJ Carrion just outside of his home and arrested him for "tumultuous behavior” related to a Commissioner's Court meeting on August 4, according to a copy of the arrest report obtained by 404 Media. Video of the alleged crime on YouTube showed Carrion saying the word “bullshit” while talking about polling center reductions during the meeting before walking away from the microphone.
Carrion
told NBC DFW
that he had been out with friends late Tuesday night and came home around 3 AM on Wednesday morning. He pulled into his cul-de-sac when the cops pulled him over for not using a turn signal. They told Carrion they had a warrant for his arrest.
According to an arrest report obtained by 404 Media, Carrion is charged with two counts of disrupting a meeting or procession, a misdemeanor in the state of Texas. “On or about the 4th day of August 2026, in the county of Tarrant, state of Texas, [Carrion] did intentionally hinder an official proceeding [...] by noise or violent or tumultuous behavior,” the record said.
Tarrant County is the home of the city of Fort Worth, where. Carrion and other residents have been fighting a long battle with city officials over a plan to reduce the number of polling places
by almost 50 percent
ahead of the November midterms. During the last election, the city had 316 polling places. The county’s election administrator wants to cut that to 176.
Carrion is a local celebrity —
a podcast host
, political activist, and
EdTech entrepreneur
— who has used his platform to speak out against the plan. He’s attended many public meetings of the Tarrant County Commissioners and spoken against the proposed polling plan several times.
“You said you were all about cooling the temperature and yet you vote for this extremist bullshit,” Carrion said. “All
