Fort Worth police press release

Dallas Morning News article

Somewhere in here there is a joke about how some Police officers are both obnoxious and ineffectual at the same time.

Why y'all gotta be hatin' on the occifer? Maybe he was usin' a can a Raid so the bikers don't get bugs in their teeth?

Shameful. Hopefully he gets suspended or fired for such a gross display of poor judgement.
But it's hard to feel too bad for these d-bags when they take over the roads, impede traffic, drive recklessly/illegally, and go all mob rule when someone honks at them . The least they could do in this scenario is move over when passing a car and/or officer pulled over to the side of the road (if it's not the law as it is here).

The funny thing is that you can see the wind from the passing bikers just blows the mace right back at him. You can see the cloud never makes it more than 2-3' away then blows back at him and the truck he pulled over. Not only is he an asshole, but he's an idiot too.

I guess you didn't notice that most of them did move to the next lane or the side of the slow lane, but not all of them would fit (only a few didn't seem to try), or that they did slow down significantly when passing the officer/truck?

I think it was a dick move on the part of the cop, but I am just going to leave this here:

TEX TN. CODE ANN. § 545.157 : Texas Statutes - Section 545.157: PASSING AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE

Um....I think you left something out. What does the statute say?

I think they were referring to this portion:

(1) vacate the lane closest to the emergency vehicle when driving on a highway with two or more lanes traveling in the direction of the emergency vehicle

However, I can tell you that on a stopped police car, I have never seen someone follow this rule in Texas and I've been driving here since 1989. I would also add that the penalty for breaking this law is a misdemeanor, it doesn't specify in the statute that the officer should use a weapon on the drivers that might cause them to wreck and create havoc.

Yeah, Ontario has the rule now too, implemented a couple of years ago, but for a specific reason: there was apparently an idiotic game some big rigs drivers would play, trying to knock off an officer's hat with their side mirror. With predictably horrible results.

To avoid the lame defense that it was an oopsie, drivers are not forced to vacate the lane.

It was extended to cover all emergency vehicles and tow trucks last year too IIRC.

And I did actually see a woman get pulled over by a cop for buzzing by in the right lane - that, of course, is the appropriate response, rather than a ridiculous pepper spray attack. Wow.