Call for backup

Uptown Saturday night in Manvel.
It’s just before 9 o’clock in the parking lot at the Shell station at Highway 6 and 288.
The parking lot is hopping.
Two kids are kicking the hacky sack back and forth. Three are guys chewing the fat over the bed of a pickup. People are gassing up their vehicles. Taco Bell is selling tacos, and there is cold beer and cigarettes for those with photo ID.
A Manvel P.D. cruiser prowls by, very slowly, back and forth through the parking lot, but no, nothing untoward is going down. The officer proceeds over to the side of the building, and waits in the back, in the shadows.
Does he know something? Has a confidential informant tipped him off?
Or, does he just have a hunch.
In Manvel?
Nah.
But, yes, there is a crime about to happen.
Then it happens.
An African American fellow whips his small compact car in off Highway 6 and parks – right in front of the handicapped parking sign. He hops out to go into the store. He has a lady friend in the passenger seat.
The Manvel P.D. is there in a flash. The officer pulls in right behind the scofflaw’s car. No way he can make a run for it, unless he decides to bail and hoof it down the highway.
The African American suspect, dressed in a FUBU jersey, with his hair in braids, speaks to the officer, who tells him, we presume, to turn around and look at the sign, if he wants to know what the problem might be.
He does.
FUBU spots the handicapped sign. He rolls his eyes and holds his palms out to side.
Busted!
Busted by The Man!
Call for backup.
Another Manvel P.D. cruiser is there in a jiffy.
The parking lot patrons stop to gawk.
Officer Number Two hops out armed.
Armed with a digital camera.
Photo evidence! Caught on video!
Go ahead, call Johnnie Cochran, because, your honor, we offer State’s Exhibit Number One.
Officer Number One writes FUBU man up.
Officer Number Two leaves with the evidence.
The crowd, reluctantly, goes back to their hacky sack kicking and gas pumping.
OK, folks, the show’s over. Go back to your homes, your businesses, your wives and children. There are tacos and cold beverages inside, if you’re of a mind, and remember, we don’t make the laws, we just enforce them.