LUBBOCK, TX — In what might be the most Texas foot chase in recent memory, a local man found himself under arrest after wildly overreacting to a police officer’s joke — about a horse.
Mounted Patrol Officers Bryson Lewis and William Trotter of the Lubbock Police Department were simply doing their job on a routine Monday afternoon patrol. They noticed a man walking in the road — not on the sidewalk — and decided to check things out.
Trying to break the tension with a touch of stable-side humor, Officer Trotter quipped that his horse was specially trained to sniff out narcotics…