Austin police chief says jaywalkers should be happy they’re not sexually assaulted by cops

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66. or lawfully detained

see warrior1's post #7 up thread.

She did three things wrong... she crossed the street on a red light, ignored police when they called out for her to stop, and refused to identify herself. Seeing as she WAS arrested (the photo shows her sitting on the sidewalk in handcuffs) we don't know if she refused before or after she was arrested... and seeing as she did nothing but scream the whole time both before and after her arrest I'm not seeing how at any time she gave them her verbal identification which is why she was charged with "failure to identify" and crossing at an intersection against the light.

http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2014/02/20/woman-arrested-on-24th-street-after-crossing-intersection
Updated (6:45 p.m. Friday): At a press conference held Friday, APD police chief Art Acevedo addressed the recent arrest of 24-year-old Amanda Jo Stephen, who was taken into custody Thursday after crossing an intersection at a red light. Stephen was formally charged with "failure to identify" and "failure to obey a pedestrian control device" and was released from Travis County Central Booking Thursday evening.

What she was doing was dangerous, and if she claims that she didn't hear the police shout to her to stop because of her earphones than she was doubly creating a hazard to herself and others... if she couldn't hear them shout at her to stop then she wouldn't have been able to hear a car or bike coming up on her unable to stop either.

They had to drag her stupid ass because she refused to get up and walk and also refused to listen to why she was detained screaming she did nothing wrong except that she did a number of things wrong and was completely uncooperative.

She brought this on herself and acted like an idiot on top of it all.