I think you’re missing the point — it’s not that people are thinking jogging with headphones/earbuds is a “good idea”, it’s that the response by police was undoubtedly callous, inhumane, and showing a lack of both human empathy/compassion and understanding. (As one of the previous posters mentioned, he probably wouldn’t have heard the police either because he’s mostly-deaf.)
That is even before taking into consideration the lawfulness of their actions. Their actions could be wholly unjustified with no actual infraction occurring and the “jaywalking” charge an ex post facto cover-your-ass story by the police. // The police have [organizationally] earned the distrust of the general populous with severe and illegal actions (no-knock raids, the “accidents” during the Dorner hunt, asset-seizure, drug-planting, and “respect my authority”) — so giving them the benefit of the doubt is becoming rather unreasonable.
The Austin Police Chief has doubled down on the incident...
“APD Police Chief Art Acevedo defends jogger arrest, said he would have been less generous” Acevedo said. “Quite frankly, she wasn’t charged with resisting, and she was lucky I wasn’t the arresting officer because I wouldn’t have been quite as generous.”
No, the point is that none of this would have happened if she'd been situationally aware. She didn't pay attention to the red light. She didn't notice cops were running a trap. She didn't hear the cop when he yelled at her, and she wasn't paying attention to notice someone was running at her until her arm was grabbed. The name for someone that out of touch with reality is 'victim' whether it is of a mugger, a rapist, or a cop. And it is my hope that she will pay attention to her surroundings in the future so that nothing worse happens to her.
As to the rest of the posters on this thread - please proceed with your two minute hate - Big Brother is doing a good job of training you.