And as far as him turning without using a turn signal goes, if I had a dollar for every time I have saw a cop making a turn without using their turn signal, I would be very wealthy. It was a pretext stop pure and simple.
Let's remind readers of what really happened here. And just to be sure, one has to piece it together from the story.
1. The story says that they were first pulled over for failing to use a turn signal.
2. Later in the story, we learn that the car was left on the side of Hwy 59.
We must conclude that the failure to use the turn signal was during a lane change, as there are no corner turns on Hwy 59. It's essentially one of two major north-south freeways in Houston.
So the cops pulled him over for not signaling a lane change on a freeway notorious for weaving traffic.
If I had to guess, I'd say that there was some profiling going on here.
-PJ