As a Texan, that doesn't surprise me. In some places, saying that kind of thing could maybe violate the letter of the law. Texas is the kind of place where it d

As a Texan, that doesn't surprise me. In some places, saying that kind of thing could maybe violate the letter of the law. Texas is the kind of place where it doesn't violate the letter of the law, because you can concealed carry, kind of doesn't violate the spirit of the law, which is quite permissive in allowing the use of force in defense of property ( https://www.dougmurphylaw.com/defense-of-property https://www.dougmurphylaw.com/defense-of-property ) (not to say that it does permit you to use force after it's stolen and you want to go get it back, just that doing so is closer to the spirit of the law than it would be in many places), and even if it did violate the law, the general ethos of the state is such that unless something actually comes of it, shooting your mouth off like that would just kind of be like jaywalking. If technically a crime, if nothing came of it, it's just a freewheeling culture in terms of weapons, defending property with force, freedom of speech, and egotistical violent grandstanding, and it'll probably be ignored as an insignificant minor technical violation not worth prosecuting, again, as long as nothing really comes of it. It's hard to put into words, but as a Texan, I can see how police would react exactly like they did. No guarantees, especially for minorities, it could go very badly, but the whole situation isn't surprising to me at all as a Texas native.