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Title: Cops DEFEND arrest of jogger who was knocked over and handcuffed 'when she didn't hear cops because of headphones'
Source:
Daily Mail
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... s-telling-stop-headphones.html
Published: Feb 22, 2014
Author: Snejana Farberov
Post Date: 2014-02-22 13:57:38 by noone222
Keywords: None
Views: 253
Comments: 13
The chief of police in Austin, Texas, addressed the controversial video showing a young jogger being arrested for jaywalking, insisting that his officers have done nothing wrong. In a press conference held Saturday, a defiant Chief Art Acevedo came out swinging against the critics of his department and refused to apologize for the arrest of 24-year-old Amanda Jo Stephen. Stephen was taken into custody while out for a run on 24th Street Thursday morning after she illegally crossed the street and then refused to give her name to police officers. Stephen's dramatic arrest marked by sobbing and yelling was captured by a bystander, Chris Quintero, whose video went viral after being posted on YouTube. On Saturday, a visibly irritated Chief Acevedo downplayed the entire incident and brushed off words of censure directed at his officers by social media users. ‘Thank you, lord, that it is a controversy in Austin, Texas — that we actually have the audacity to touch somebody by the arm and tell them, “Oh my goodness, Austin police we’re trying to get your attention,”’ Acevedo remarked sarcastically. ‘Whew! In other cities, cops are actually committing sexual assaults on duty, so I thank God that this is what passes for a controversy in Austin, Texas.’ Poster Comment: Arrest Acevedo ! C'mon Austin, you can surely do better than this crap !
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#2. To: noone222 (#0)
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Are people in Austin wimps? Is that how the men of that town would let those fat goofs handle a lady in their streets? How pathetic and disgusting. Why didn't someone assault them for assaulting her? Walk up and arrest them. Get a few of your friends and some of those guns you're always bragging about and go do the right thing. What a joke.
and what about the thousands of UT students? why aren't they out on the streets of Austin protesting on her behalf?
UT would cancel thousands of scholarships of street protesters just to prove that all that college-talk of liberty/equality/justice is just bullshit when push comes to shove in a confrontation with the state's jack-booted minions.
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#5. To: wudidiz (#2)
#7. To: christine (#5)
and what about the thousands of UT students? why aren't they out on the streets of Austin protesting on her behalf?
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