Uber Eats Driver Says He Was Handcuffed by Cops While Delivering to School

An Uber Eats driver said he was in shock after being ambushed and handcuffed by police officers while delivering food to a school.

In a video with nearly 500,000 views on TikTok, Texas driver Jonathan Reisig explained how his routine delivery turned into a nightmare on August 19.

"So I pick up a Sonic order, I deliver it to a school, I go through the gate system, park in the visitor parking, I push the button and say, 'Hey, this is Jonathan, your Uber delivery food guy, I have your order," Reisig recounted.

The school district's superintendent arrived to receive the order, he said. But when he turned around, two officers were standing right behind him. They demanded to know what he was doing there.

"I'm like, 'I'm just delivering food,'" Reisig said. He told the officers that he was leaving to pick up another order.

The officers replied that he could cancel that order.

"Because I was there, they had...I don't know what it was, but apparently reasonable suspicion," the shaken driver said.

Reisig said the superintendent protested on his behalf, telling the officers that he was delivering her order. In response, they allegedly threatened to arrest her as well.

The next thing he knew, Reisig said the cops were going through his car, putting him in handcuffs and detaining him for half an hour. At one point, six other officers showed up as backup.

"I'm gonna file a report," Reisig said. "I'm never taking an order to deliver to a school. Next time that happens, I'm just going to go into the app and cancel it."

Although Reisig did not name the police department that detained him, the number of Texas school districts with their own police has shot up in recent years. The state has 309 school districts with internal police departments, according to The Texas Tribune, with 99 created since 2017.

After Texas' deadliest school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde in May, officials rallied around calls to secure schools with more police.

Republican Senator Ted Cruz and state attorney general Ken Paxton pushed for more armed officers at school entrances, along with armed teachers. Governor Greg Abbott urged schools to prioritize "active shooter" training drills.

However, in Uvalde, the school district police department had completed an active shooter drill weeks before 19 children and two teachers were killed. It took law enforcement more than an hour to stop the massacre.

A range of experts have said there is no guarantee that officers will follow their training under fire. Meanwhile, the vast majority of U.S. teachers—95.3 percent, according to a poll from California State University, Northridge—do not believe they should be carrying guns in classrooms.

Newsweek reached out to Reisig and Uber for comment.