Fury over Texas traffic cop's very lazy way of ticketing drivers

Motorists are up successful arms astir a TikTok video that appears to show much than 150 group deed pinch nan aforesaid summons by nan aforesaid cop.

Posted by Houston's Keara Kenise, nan viral video shows nan alleged offenders each lined up successful beforehand of a Katy courthouse past week.

All received citations from Harris County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Raymond Hubbard, aft being pulled complete astatine nan aforesaid intersection. Kenise proceeds to kick astir nan occurrence - while adding an constituent of joke to support things light.

As for an explanation, a nationalist accusation serviceman told DailyMail.com  nan intersection that spawned nan tickets is simply a 'high clang area' - 1 that Hubbard had been specifically assigned to liking out. 

That explains nan precocious magnitude of tickets, he said - adding that Hubbard regularly hands retired '300 citations a month.'

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'If you watch nan video, you spot group laughing, but nary of them said they didn’t do it,' Senior Deputy Thomas M Gilliland told DailyMail.com of nan precocious magnitude of 'Improper extremity astatine a postulation light' tickets.

He added really they were each handed retired adjacent nan intersection of Fry Road and Interstate 10 - a crossing he said complete they years has surfaced arsenic a problem spot.

Temple further revealed how Hubbard is portion of a programme designed specifically to rumor a precocious number of tickets to specified areas, aft much than 27 years connected nan force.

That truth appeared mislaid connected nan mini service of motorists seen in Kenise's clip, herself included.

Commenting connected nan communal crushed shared betwixt members of nan crowd, Kenise goes down nan statement asking each Texan why they sewage pulled over.

All respond pinch nan aforesaid reply - starring to a humorous show wherever she asks members of nan congregation to 'raise their hand'.

'Everybody who sewage pulled complete for not yielding connected Fry road, raise your hand!' nan female astatine 1 constituent proclaims.

Almost everyone successful statement responded by extending 1 of their arms to nan sky, astir of them doing truthful while smiling contempt nan logic for their visit.

Kenise continued: 'Everybody who sewage pulled complete - he came connected that bullhorn yellin', tellin' you to propulsion complete for illustration you committed a national offense, raise your hand!'

All nan hands enactment raised.

'It don't make nary sense,' Kenise is past heard exclaiming - earlier honing in connected nan man responsible for their being there.

'That's a d*mn shame,' she begins. 'We putting him connected TikTok - he sewage to beryllium stopped! He says you each ran a extremity motion connected Fry Road! Officer Hubbard!'

Others gathered astatine nan tract are seen letting retired laughs successful response.

Commenters, meanwhile, offered their ain jabs astir nan gathering arsenic well, pinch 1 remarking, 'that judge is gonna person a section time w[ith] this.'

'I'm going to tribunal tomorrow for nan aforesaid thing!' added another.

'I'm raising my hand,' said personification else.

The original clip of nan back-in-forth, according to nan female who posted, was deleted aft 600,000 views.

A repost has since garnered 3,000 more, arsenic Sgt Temple connected Monday explained in-depth nan state-funded inaugural responsible for nan spate of citations.

'We participate successful a state-funded inaugural called nan Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP),' he wrote successful an email.

'This programme is funded done grants from nan Texas Department of Transportation and is designed to deter postulation violations astatine nan astir vulnerable intersections.

'Deputy Hubbard and nan Traffic Enforcement Program play a important domiciled successful enhancing roadworthy information successful nan community,' he continued. 'On average, he issues 300 citations each month.

'The information concerning crashes astatine nan intersection of Fry Road and Clay Road is peculiarly alarming, pinch 7 awesome crashes reported successful September,' he went on, sharing respective different intersections successful nan area that earned nan distinction. 

'This underscores nan value of targeted enforcement successful areas pinch precocious clang rates.' 

He added really nan unit is presently in the process of moving pinch section magistrates  to stagger days truthful nan measurement of tickets are little - successful hopes of avoiding an result for illustration nan 1 seen successful nan TikTok clip.