‘Fabricated Allegations’: Man Arrested Outside Trump’s CA Rally Sues Sheriff
Vem Miller accused Sheriff Bianco of “intentionally, maliciously and with blatant disregard for the truth” who “wanted to create a narrative” so people would view him as “heroic” for saving Trump.
Vem Miller, a supporter of former President Donald Trump, filed a lawsuit against the California sheriff’s office that arrested him outside a rally, claiming he wanted to assassinate Trump.
Miller alleged Riverside County, Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, Sheriff Chad Bianco, and others in the office violated his rights protected under the First and Fourth Amendments:
The evidence will establish that the officers were trained to act in precisely the manner they acted and, thus, were trained to do precisely the wrong thing. If the officers had been properly trained in the fundamental principles of search and seizure and safekeeping private information, this incident would not have happened. In short, the officers’ actions were contrary to proper police practices. Riverside police practices were diametrically opposed to proper police procedures, out of synch with the rest of the police profession, malicious, and plainly unconstitutional.
Riverside police engaged in deliberate and wrongful conduct and compromised police protocol violating Miller’s constitutional rights for the purpose of promoting and engaging in a meritless and gratuitous sensational story.
“The actions of Defendants against the Plaintiff were carried out with (a) actual malice and/or (b) a conscious, reckless, and outrageous indifference to the health, safety, and welfare of others, thereby justifying an award of punitive damages to the fullest extent permitted by law,” added Miller.
On October 13, Bianco told the press that Miller had fake VIP passes and illegally possessed “a shotgun, a loaded handgun, and a high-capacity magazine.”
Biano even said, “We probably stopped another assassination attempt.”
Miller accused Bianco of “intentionally, maliciously and with blatant disregard for the truth” who “wanted to create a narrative” so people would view him as “heroic” for saving Trump.
Miller listed the “preposterous allegations” Bianco leveled against him:
- Miller had multiple fake passports and fake driver licenses with different names;
- Miller was a member of a sovereign citizens group;
- The interior of the vehicle was in disarray;
- Miller showed up with an unlicensed, unregistered vehicle with fake plates;
- Weapons and ammunition with all the monstrous red flags of intent to assassinate the President;
- Miller presented a fake VIP and press passes at the check point;
- Bianco prevented another assassination attempt on the President
Miller pointed out that the United States Secret Service and FBI agents didn’t want to interview him.
The USSS and FBI told Bianco the agencies “did not believe Miller was a threat.”
I mean, the officers booked Miller and released him on $5,000 bail.
Miller claimed that due to the sheriff’s actions, he continues to “suffer substantial past and future damages, both compensatory and general, including, but not limited to, loss of income, severe emotional distress, mental anguish, embarrassment and humiliation.”
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The Sheriff is also a supporter of Trump…. a very vocal supporter. So if both “support” Trump then why this lawsuit… unless… good ole buddy Vern is rather blue and a plant.
Is his first cousin Ray Epps?
If the Sheriff can simply produce photos of the items he claimed his Deputies discovered during the interaction with Miller which led the Sheriff to make claims that the arrest of Miller ‘prevented an assassination attempt’ he will be able to easily refute Miller’s allegations.
Either homeboy had all that crap; various DL, various passports, shotgun and pistol, in a vehicle with no registration, mounting fake plates and a fake VIP pass and fake credentials he presented to try and enter the event and the Sheriff’s Office took photos of all that crap as evidence or the Sheriff is just flapping his gums.
Whether one or both of these Men support DJT and his policies is irrelevant to whether the Sheriff made false claims about Miller. If the Sheriff lied about the details he offered up or can’t produce evidence to back his public claims branding Miller as an ‘assassin’ which his Deputies thwarted he at minimum owes a public apology with just as much media attention as the initial claims he made.
From the pleading: “In fact, Miller, a registered Republican in Nevada, is a member of the Clark County Republican Party, Central Committee. During the Nevada GOP 2024, Presidential Caucus, Miller served as a Trump Caucus Captain.”
The sheriff is someone who claimed in public that there was something deeply suspicious about a person having a shotgun and a handgun, with a spare magazine. Asked why anyone would have “all that stuff” if not to carry out a nefarious plot. He may be a Trump supporter, but he’s also a Californian gun-grabber.
The Sheriff’s need to get in front of a camera and be a hero outweighed everything. It sounded a little fishy right from the start when neither SS nor FBI wanted to interview the guy and the bail was set so low. Did he or did he not have all those ID’s and passports, fake license plate etc?
Rather odd, huh?
I see red flags all around with this one, none of them tilted toward Trump.
His attorney, Sigal Chattah, is Republican National Committee woman from Nevada and very pro-Trump.
Good job Sheriff Bianco.
The fact this individual was found with weapons and various identification, he should have been arrested for stupidity for bringing such things to a Trump rally. As far as his lawsuit against the sheriff I would hope that a judge will find there is no merit to it and dismiss it. That of course unless the judge is a democratic appointed, then it will be full steam ahead. I would not be surprised if they somehow bring Trump into the lawsuit.
Why should he not bring normal ordinary weapons on his way to a Trump rally? Is he guaranteed that nobody will attempt to commit a crime against him on the entire trip?!
The only reason not to bring them was that he should have been aware that California considers itself exempt from the second amendment, but it seems he was unaware, or perhaps thought that as a Nevada resident he would be allowed to carry as if he were in Nevada. That was stupid, and he has been charged for that. That is no reason to believe he was up to anything nefarious, let alone to justify the police’s actions.
Regardless of that, what has that got to do with the merits of his lawsuit? How can you possibly think the suit has no merit?! Even a committed leftist would see that the suit is well argued, they just wouldn’t care and would dismiss it despite its merit, not for lack of any.
Amen!
From the previous article:
“Bianco told the publication that he belongs to “a right-leaning anti-government group” and “considers himself a so-called sovereign citizen, a group of people who do not believe they are subject to any government statutes unless they consent to them.”
I know stereotyping is bad, but…If it looks like a nut job trying to make trouble…
However, even if a stereotype is statistically true, there is always one sample that falls two standard deviations or more out so I will wait for the evidence to be shown at trial
How does it look like a nut job in any way? You cited but don’t seem to have actually read the key words in that sentence: “Bianco says”. Bianco is not the suspect/plaintiff. What he says is irrelevant.
Honestly, I’m not sure what to believe. One thing the ubiquity of body-cams has verified is law enforcement officers face potential deadly threats every day and 99% of the officers respond in a professional way, protecting victims and bystanders as well as the civil rights of perpetrators, as best they can. But, there are bad apples, cops who will ignore statutory and constitutional law for a variety of reasons, often times not defensible reasons. I’ll wait for evidence presented at trial subject to cross-examination before determining what camp this sheriff falls into. It could be the case that both men acted in a bizarre manner. We’ll see.
now THIS would be an interesting case as it follows my own stated supposition ( that the leo want to create a falsehood so they can then be the heros…like many a lefty does with all their “helpful” programs)
Occam’s razor tend me toward the viewpoint that this fella is correct and the sheriff is at fault, simply because it would be ridiculously easy to refute the allegations with the bodycam footage of the deputies searching the car, finding the weapons cache as well as the phony rally credentials.
The fact that the feds aren’t interested, while not determinative, at least not supportive of the sheriff’s story.
What “weapons cache”? They’re not even alleging any such thing. Among all the bizarre allegations there’s nothing about any weapons beyond the shotgun and handgun that he told them about and that are completely normal.
“The fact that the feds aren’t interested, while not determinative, at least not supportive of the sheriff’s story.”
In any other year, I would automatically agree with you. However trying to be objective based on the empirical evidence so far this year I can’t give that much probative value.
Miller had fake VIP passes and illegally possessed “a shotgun, a loaded handgun, and a high-capacity magazine.”
Is he actually disputing this part? I mean in a rational fashion? Because driving into California with those guns made it illegal the moment he crossed the border.
“We probably stopped another assassination attempt.”
THAT part I have always doubted.
But this lawsuit does sound suspiciously like one a “sovcit” would file. (And, despite his protests otherwise, he is involved with those folks.) And it sure helps his partner spread the news about their “documentary”* and make it look like the authorities are trying to “suppress” him and the documentary.
I think this was a setup by Miller from the beginning. And he was hoping for a lot more frenetic reaction to help him become a martyr. (I doubt he wanted to be a dead one; but he certainly was hoping for a little more persecution than he actually got.)
(* Maybe the thing really is a documentary. But I don’t know, and only have his partner’s assertions to go on. Hence the quotes.)
The guns being illegal in California (at least if you ignore the second amendment) doesn’t justify any of the bizarre allegations they made against him, or the way he alleges they treated him.
He obviously doesn’t deny having the guns, since he was the one who told the police about them in the first place, but he claims not to have known that he couldn’t bring them into California. There have been many cases like that before, people assuming either that their state’s laws are universal or that being residents of their state they would be protected from those of other states. They generally play out the same way, with the person naively informing a policeman that they’re carrying, thinking they’re doing the right thing, and immediately being arrested.