Texas street race leads to chaos as spectators set fire to

The chaos did not end until almost two in the morning, when the crowd began to disperse.

Local council member Alison Alter expressed her outrage at the incident, saying 911 detained her for 28 minutes after she tried to call to report the seizure, she told the Austin American-Statesman.

A shortage of staff for 911 operators has been a problem in Austin, with an October Fox News report putting the average wait time for calls at two and a half minutes.

The Austin Police Association took over social mediablaming lawmakers in Austin who “failed to make the right decisions and continue to defund, destroy and demoralize public safety.”

Other Texas legislators, seeing the chaos on social media, began calling for a solution to stop these dangerous takeovers.

“God bless our brave men and women in blue! Especially those who work in cities where they are underestimated, underpaid and attacked, like in Austin,” said Rep. Jeff Leach. tweeted.

“We must come together as a community to figure out how to prevent this from happening again, how to keep our community safe, and how to enable our law enforcement to respond quickly and effectively.” Rep. Vicki Goodwin tweeted about the takeover.

Takeovers typically involve hundreds of people and multiple vehicles gathering in an unauthorized area, such as an intersection or an interstate highway, and blocking traffic in dangerous and chaotic stunts and activities.