San Marcos paying $175,000 to settle lawsuit over 'Trump train' harassment

San Marcos will pay $175,000 to settle a lawsuit accusing its police of ignoring 911 calls from people on a Biden campaign bus traveling from San Antonio as it was harassed by a caravan of Trump supporters before the 2020 election, the Texas Tribune reports. Also as part of the deal, the city's police and professional staff must be trained on how to properly respond to voter intimidation and political violence, according to the Tribune, which obtained a copy of city's settlement agreement on Wednesday. The suit, filed in 2021, accused members of the San Marcos police force of ignoring and joking about distress calls from Democratic campaigners as they tried to make their way from San Antonio to Austin on I-35.