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You can get arrested for obstructing a police investigation. In this particular case, it appears that the father picked up and removed his son from the crime scene. Possibly also tampering with the crime scene. He has made himself an accessory to the crime after the fact. No different than a get-away driver for a bank robbery.
The father isn't being indicted for crashing a pickup truck. He's being held for obstructing justice, which is an entirely different crime.
If a minor is being protected by his legal guardian over an illegal act, yes the legal guardian has responsibility.
His son shouldn't be on the road if he's crashing a five-ton vehicle into a telephone pole. Hiding him in order to sober him up means putting him back out on the road to do this shit again.
When the same guy is pulling kids out of school for their haircuts, I will absolutely fault him. This guy has no concern for anyone outside of his immediate social circle. He's immiserating children under the pretext of conformity, while keeping his drunk-driving son on the road to potentially kill another family with his reckless behavior.
The contradiction between behaviors - one that's strictly authoritarian for "conformity" sake and the other that's hostile to basic traffic laws - illustrates a guy who has no business operating in an administrative capacity.
Bingo. If he kicked a kid out for locs and turned his son over to the authorities with a rousing "laws were broken, and I'm not asking for mercy" speech during sentencing, then he's just an authoritarian-loving jerk and you can respect that even if you won't grab a drink with him.
But this guy just likes to exert his white authority over black people. Not his innocent lilly-white drunk-driving son.
I mean, I wouldn't respect that either. If anything, I'd respect a guy who shielded his students from draconian municipal/state punishments for a fucking haircut and shielded his son from draconian municipal/state punishments for driving. But you don't get to be superintendent by going "Soft On (Hair) Crime".
Or his rich authority over poor people. Although, in Houston, the de facto racial caste system makes it interchangeable.
I guess I'm trying to just differentiate two different worlds of behavior . Maybe it's not as big a deal as I make it, but I have a real problem with inconsistency and hypocrisy.
I think the term "hypocrite" gets overused, mostly because the standard being followed isn't always what the label implies.
If you're a white supremacist or a simple elitist, then there's no hypocrisy in doing favors for your white son and fucking over your black student. I don't think that this lack-of-hypocrisy makes the behavior any more laudable, though.
I found the dumbass, it was mob.
That's where everyone is going off the fucking rails in different directions from my edit.
I get trying to protect your children as a parent. I'm a father myself and can fathom a reaction of trying to protect a child to the point of going to jail over something.
You entirely missed the point yourself when you misunderstood the issue as related to him being held responsible for the crimes of his son. He committed the crime of obstruction regardless of whatever crime his son was suspected of, but that's not even the problem here.
What I CANNOT FUCKING ABIDE is the insane hypocrisy this fuck demonstrates through allowing exceptions to the LAWS for his child that he will defend and go to jail over, while demanding someone else's child fall in line to school guidelines that are malleable and far less rigid in both application and enforcement than any legal criminality.
This all reads like some purebred racial prejudice fully baked into governing committees remaining alive and well in pockets of Texas even close to major cities. Not that it's that different literally everywhere else that isn't a major metro/suburb/college town.