Here’s a compilation video of “heroes” enforcing “the law” with more than a little gusto:
These incidents would once have sparked national outrage but the people of this country seem to have gotten used to routine barbarity and shrug.
If that doesn’t stop, worse is coming.
Texas Penal Code – PENAL § 39.03. Official Oppression
http://codes.findlaw.com/tx/penal-code/penal-sect-39-03.html
(a) A public servant acting under color of his office or employment commits an offense if he:
(1) intentionally subjects another to mistreatment or to arrest, detention, search, seizure, dispossession, assessment, or lien that he knows is unlawful;
(2) intentionally denies or impedes another in the exercise or enjoyment of any right, privilege, power, or immunity, knowing his conduct is unlawful; or
(3) intentionally subjects another to sexual harassment.
(b) For purposes of this section, a public servant acts under color of his office or employment if he acts or purports to act in an official capacity or takes advantage of such actual or purported capacity.
Is Texas the only place with such a law?
“Is Texas the only place with such a law?”
I don’t know, but I’d be willing to bet that anywhere a law like that exists, it would go unenforced as often as it does in Texas.