DILLEY, Texas – One man is jailed and four other people free on bond following a wild confrontation on a rural Frio County road with officers from the Dilley Police Department.
A video one of the men posted on YouTube shows the group taunting and pushing the officers and shouting obscenities. The officers did not make any arrests or respond to the group's actions.
"Tempers got flared up," Dilley Police Chief Albert De Leon said. "The main reason my men restrained themselves was due to the fact that there were children out there."
The officers were responding to a report that the group was out there for a street race and had cameras there to record the race. Cameras they used to record the confrontation after police arrived.
De Leon said the confrontation began when his officers asked one driver for identification. A man the chief identified as Omar Espinosa, 22, told police he did not have to show ID and began taunting and threatening the officers.
He was cited for making a terroristic threat, which is a misdemeanor, according to De Leon.
The following day, Espinosa and four others showed up at Dilley Police Headquarters and, according to De Leon, Espinosa again made threats. All five people were arrested. The others later posted bond and were released. Espinosa is jailed in the Frio County Jail.
De Leon said that he feels his men were set up.
"They (the suspects) knew what they were doing," he said. "Their intentions were to film and cause turmoil."