Is brake-checking a tailgater illegal in Texas?

TEXAS (Nexstar) — If you've been driving long enough in Texas, chances are you have seen this happen.Someone is tailgating (driving too close to the rear end of) another driver, and the person in front performs a brake check (abruptly stomping on their vehicle's brakes while another vehicle is following close behind). What typically happens next is everyone behind the brake checker hits their brakes as soon as they can, and in some cases, a crash is the end result.But can a driver brake-ch