Black Flyte Time

👮‍♂️Officer: “You can try this constitutional crap all you want”—does that sound like someone enforcing the law or someone annoyed by the law? February 2015, Houston Texas: HPD Officer Holloway (badge #7428) stopped a man walking and legally open-carrying an AR-15 during an Open Carry Texas 2A audit. The man asked if he was being detained and was told no, so he kept walking. The officer then pulled in front of him, got out with his own rifle, and escalated. When the man said he did not consent to questions, Holloway snapped: 👮‍♂️“You can try this constitutional crap all you want, but I got news for you. I’m part of that 3% that you’re trying to represent, but you ain’t doing nothing.” He demanded ID to check whether the man was a felon, said the man wasn’t allowed to carry “ON MY STREETS,” and threatened to “escalate this another way.” The man was handcuffed, his rifle was taken, and he was locked in the back of the patrol car for ~25 minutes while Holloway called the DA for advice. He was later released with no charges. The officer later indicated he had no reasonable suspicion of a crime to detain him. Long-gun open carry was legal in Texas at the time. The incident was the subject of an Internal Affairs review. No public report was made available. ❓What do you think about the combination of the angry attitude, the 3%er self-identification while detaining someone for exercising a legal right? ❓The 25-minute detention while calling the DA—does that suggest Officer Holloway really did support what the man was doing, as he said at the beginning?