A gun rights activist at the center of a pair of tumultuous Tarrant County Commissioners Court sessions in January has sued county officials in federal court over his detention and removal from the meetings.
C.J. Grisham, an attorney and gun rights activist from Temple, was detained at the Jan. 14 meeting when he attempted to enter the courtroom with a pistol. The disruption escalated to violence and resulted in the arrest of another man who filmed Tarrant County sheriff’s deputies and demanded their names and badge numbers.
Grisham, who argued he was legally allowed to carry a firearm in the court as a former law enforcement officer, was not arrested, but left voluntarily after Sheriff’s Office employees, including Sheriff Bill Waybourn, said he would not be allowed to return to the courtroom with his weapon. Grisham is a retired federal counterintelligence special agent…