High Noon at 1776: San Antonio Second Amendment Standoff
High Noon at 1776: San Antonio Second Amendment Standoff
“Take a knee and lay face down on the ground!” the officer barked from behind the open door of his Olmos Park police cruiser. He was among the first to arrive on the scene in response to reports of a man open carrying his gun on the city streets across from the Shell station at McColough Avenue and East-West Olmos Drive on March 27, 2018.
“Why?” came the reply from the would-be offender. “Have I broken any laws?” he asked.
“Because I’m telling you to!”
The tense exchange repeated itself several times with cop ordering the citizen to the ground while the citizen demanded to know under what law he was being charged.
At 53 seconds into the video recorded by the suspect himself, a piece of black plastic blown by the wind skittered across the road between them – a 21st century stand-in for the cliché tumbleweed bouncing between two gunmen staring each other down in the old Western movies.
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