This is the narrative of Texas law enforcement officials who either exhibited ignorance of the law that they swore to enforce, or engaged in the deliberate suppression of lawful conduct in order to intimidate any other citizens who might also be inclined to engage in such lawful conduct on a mass scale.
Texas LAWS can sometimes be "inconvenient", annoying, and even a little bit embarrassing - especially when you have sworn a solemn oath to uphold it- which logically infers a duty to be familiar with it - and respect it.
The hard truth confronting these law enforcement officials is that they find themselves on the WRONG side of Texas law on this one. Occasionally we all fail to read & heed one of those posted " NO OUTLET" street signs, and find ourselves stuck at the end of a narrow dead-end street. We may not like the fact that there is no way out of such a predicament other than to put it in reverse, and back out the same way we came in.......and perhaps APOLOGIZE to our passengers while making a mental note to read & heed posted signage in the future.
