Living in a police state is tough.
You know things are getting bad when the Jack Booted Thugs need to go after jaywalkers to increase revenue.
Pathetic.
Anyone who has driven in Austin near the UT campus knows that joggers and bicyclists run and ride through red lights all the time. I say it is about time that Austin’s finest start ticketing those joggers and bicyclists who are a danger to themselves and to others.
a jayjogger who no doubt voted for the regime that is now busting her for ignoring its laws.
Taking their cue from the NAZI party, today’s American police have only to adopt a German accent: Zeigen Sie mir Ihre Papiere.
I'm seeing pavement, sidewalk.. maybe ground.
Where is this "floor"?
Running with headphones and not being aware of your surroundings can be dangerous.
She’s lucky - something bad might have happened to her. /sarc
From the article...the police were enforcing jaywalking...probably due to a complaint from drivers. They had issued other people tickets prior. As for this jogger...she apparently jaywalked/jogged, and they were within rights to issue her a summons. Granted that she probably did t hear them call out to her, hence the startled reaction...however, if they explained that they were going to issue her a ticket, and she didn’t fork over her info...the consequences are on her...
Oh come on...if you are a JBT then you get to ...um... tackle pretty girls in short shorts and handcuff them, maybe even pat them down, all in the name of enforcing really old laws that most people think nothing about in their daily lives.
What a great job!
What, you think that the police are tackling smelly old homeless guys when they jaywalk?!
Tackle the babes! It’s the JBT way.
Austin is liberal.
The cops should be in jail.
A. “The entire incident” was not caught on the video shown in the linked piece.
B. Where are they getting that she was “knocked to the ground?”
(Police haters may now commence with their tirades)
Police on Thursday arrested Amanda Jo Stephen, 24, and charged her with failure to
identify after police said she refused to cooperate when an officer attempted to stop her
after she was seen disregarding a traffic control device while jogging near the university.
She mistakenly thought she was a citizen...
Though I have no idea of what transpired verbally between her and the police, the police sure over reacted...
Citizen! Papers please!
“The Austin Police Department has denied that the officers seen in the video were specifically targeting jaywalkers, claiming instead that they were working ‘pedestrian enforcement’ to ensure traffic safety. “
Good lord did the Austin PD PIO go to the WJC School of obfuscation????
I guess Austin must be a zero crime area
Oh, well. “I Don’t Slow Down For Dead Raccoons or Joggers.”
Most people would say “how can this happen in Texas?”
One must remember that the exceptions to Texas are the liberal bastions of Houston and Austin. Possible others along the mexican border, but those two for certain.
dumb a** student wearing ear buds music up so loud they can’t hear anything jaywalking and the cops tried to get her to stop and she just kept walking so...
She is very fortunate that the Austin Cops didn’t shoot her. They have a bad habit of doing that.