Wenzel von Tronka Is Living in Texas

Evidently the practice of abusing one's connections with the law to extort payment from travelers has not gone away: get a load of Tenaha, Texas, where officials routinely stopped nonwhite motorists and extorted large sums of money from them, generally by threatening them with imprisonment and more. The mayor defended the practice, saying that the highway through his town "is a thoroughfare that a lot of no-good people travel on" and that the confiscated money is being put to good use: “It’s always helpful to have any kind of income to expand your police force." Where's Martin Luther when you need him?