The seven-member jury ordered Eliazar Cisneros, a chef and Navy veteran, to pay the bus's driver, Tim Holloway, $10,000 in compensatory damages. It also levied a $30,000 fine in punitive damages against Cisneros,

Civil rights advocates hoped a guilty verdict would send a clear message about what constitutes political violence and intimidation.

A jury in Texas has cleared five pro-Trump activists but found one liable in a civil trial over a 2020 incident in which they surrounded a Joe Biden campaign bus on the highway. Motorists aboard the bus had accused the six defendants of violating state laws and a federal law used to counter the Ku Klux Klan white supremacist group.