Overview

• The Second Ward installation features two mannequins in red hats hanging by nooses from a wooden frame under Mexican flags, with coffins and a poncho-clad figure nearby.
• Houston police say they received one complaint and determined no laws were broken, and local reports indicate no further investigation is expected.
• Homeowner Mark Rodriguez says the display is a temporary political statement about immigration and fear in his community and that it is not intended as a threat.
• Civil-rights attorney Randall Kallinen and First Amendment attorney Jack Urquhart say such displays are generally protected unless they incite violence or are threatening or obscene under Texas law.
• Public reaction ranges from support to condemnation on social media and local TV, with debate intensified by recent violence at a Dallas ICE facility.