A traffic stop meant to address erratic driving on the northeast side of San Antonio turned into a scene of chaos this month when a Converse police officer ended up pinned beneath the wheel of the very car he was trying to stop. The driver, identified as Antoine Irving, is now facing a stack of felony charges after the confrontation sent both him and the officer to the hospital.
According to WOAI, Converse police officers pulled Irving over in the 8800 block of Binz-Engleman Road after spotting the vehicle being driven erratically. Irving reportedly refused to get out of the car when ordered and instead shifted the vehicle between park and drive as officers tried to remove him. When officers eventually pulled him from behind the wheel, police say he physically resisted, prompting officers to deploy a taser during the struggle.
It was during that chaotic extraction that the vehicle rolled forward, according to reporting from the San Antonio Express-News, pinning the officer’s foot beneath the car’s left rear tire. Both Irving and the injured officer were taken to Northeast Methodist Hospital for treatment and were later released, per the same report.
A Cascade of Felony Charges
Irving was arrested following the struggle and booked into the Bexar County Jail, where he now faces a lengthy list of felony charges. Those include assault on a public servant, resisting arrest, and two separate drug possession counts — one involving a Penalty Group 2 substance in an amount between 4 and 400 grams, and another involving a Penalty Group 1-B substance weighing between 1 and 4 grams…