Overview
- Body-camera footage released last week captures a Lubbock Mounted Patrol encounter that escalated into a foot chase.
- Officers said they stopped the man for walking in the road and questioned him after suspecting possible drug possession.
- An officer joked about having a “narcotics-sniffing” horse, after which the man took off running, according to the video.
- Police pursued and arrested the runner, later identified as 42-year-old Joseph Ramirez, local media reported.
- KCBD reported that Ramirez was charged with evading arrest and tampering with physical evidence with intent to impair.