Posted on 07/06/2018 6:27:29 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
SAN ANTONIO - The San Antonio Police Department has received numerous calls from people demanding more severe charges be levied against a man at the center of a viral video at a Whataburger, a police spokesman said.
Kino Jimenez, 30, was arrested Thursday night on a charge of theft of person.
Jimenez is accused of launching an attack on a teenager at a Northeast Side Whataburger restaurant that was caught on camera.
According to an arrest warrant affidavit, police received several tips identifying Jimenez as the man in the video.
The affidavit said the owner of the hat who was splashed with soda is a 16-year-old boy.
The teen told investigators that Jimenez approached his table inside the Nacogdoches Road restaurant around 2 a.m. on July Fourth and asked why he was wearing the hat.
The teen replied that he was supporting the president, the affidavit said.
What happened next was caught on video, the report said.
After investigating, police took Jimenez into custody. On his way out of jail early Friday morning, he tried at first to avoid a KSAT 12 News camera.
Once the camera was turned off, he spoke briefly, saying what happened was a lapse in judgment that was out of character for him.
Jimenez said seeing the hat had the same effect on him that a Ku Klux Klan hood would have had.
He said since the video went viral, he and his family have been receiving threats.
Officer Carlos Ortiz, a police spokesman, said SAPD has heard from a number of people who believe Jimenez should have been charged with assault rather than theft.
A felony theft charge is unusual in a case like this, Ortiz said.
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What about the assault side of this? And civil rights?
Whoa
This should be taken far more seriously than it is. This was an adult harassing/assaulting/battery whatever legally it is it has to be far more serious when it is adult/minor.
It seems to me the police or DA or whoever is trying to do minimum charges, that should not happen when it is adult/minor.
This man got all tough guy with a minor!! That is a huge deal!! People saying the guy is not like that, BS he certainly is like that.
What about his buddy that was filming from across the room and who left with him?
Since force was used, it should have been felony robbery.
Bull shit..no sale. What a lying coward.
Songs are getting squirrelly, thats for damned sure.
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Texas has CCL laws. If anyone was carrying, they could have shot him for assault and robbery. Picking on a 16 yo is pretty safe if there is no one else in the store.
He went after a kid.
Throw the book at him.
LOL?
Insanity defense...
It was in San Antonio
Gee, isnt this the same as strong armed robbery as said about St. Michael Brown?
His booking shot is “clean shaven”, suggesting he hoped that shaving that ridiculously BAD beard might shield him from identification ... umm.. no guy .... you forgot about everyone who knows “your beard” ... his name is now forever associated with that beard ... good luck with future job interviews ...
Want to bet he wouldn’t have snatched a Klan Hood off Robert Byrd and lived to tell the Tale?
How about this...............
Get a group of 20 or more Trump supporters to go around to different eating places in San Antonio wearing the Trump MAGA hats.
Then let’s see what these “Never Trump Chicken Livers” will do?
Wrong. Seeing the Trump hat had the same affect on him, that a klansman got seeing a black man.
Must be an illegal to have such deep rooted fears. Charge him for the appropriate crimes. Let him do his 5 years in prison. Then escort him to the farthest point of the country he belongs in. Inform him if he is found in America again he will spend 10-20 years in prison at hard labor.
Play time is over with. Time to get real.
Stop
Stop this moronic shit
You have no idea what you are talking about
You are spouting off a bunch of gibberish and words you heard on tv shows just like a liberal
Stop
He has been charged in accordance with the laws of the state of Texas.
Not the law of the fever swamp of your mind
Conservatives pride themselves on logic, reason, and the rule of law
Please use them. You are on a pure emotional rant
Kinda like a liberal
Just stop
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