A spur-of-the-moment cell phone photo with a rap music legend has made a law enforcement officer from Texas an Instagram star…but the trooper’s selfie-with-Snoop Dogg hasn’t impressed everyone.
Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Billy Spears is being ordered to undergo counseling after posing for a photograph with rapper Snoop Dogg. An attorney for the officer, however, says the action reeks of retaliation.
Spears was in uniform and providing security during the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, TX last month with Snoop Dogg, born Calvin Broadus, when he approached the officer and asked if the two could take a picture together.
The image later showed up on the rapper’s Instagram account with the caption “Me n my deputy dogg,” and has since been “liked” by more than 18,000 users of the photo-sharing site. Spears’ superiors aren’t among those that are impressed, however, and have asked him to undergo counseling.
