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Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo, or as I call him, Chief Pinocchio, has a credibility problem. When whites are attacked by blacks in racially motivated hate crimes, he lies on behalf of the attackers, in denying the crimes’ transparently racist character.
By the way, in Austin, the racist black-on-white sucker punch attacks called “polar bear hunting,” “knockout king,” and the knockout game,” depending on the locale, are called “punch-and-run” attacks (see here and here).
Here’s what I think is going on. Like most police chiefs these days, Chief Pinocchio is desperately trying to scrounge up money via ticket blitzes against whites and Asians. The officer who assaulted protected the public from Miss Stephen was desperately seeking to meet his ticket quota. And since she was white, the cops didn’t need to worry about treating her with kid gloves.
Note that the American-Statesman referred to Miss Stephen as the “jaywalking suspect.” Either someone was being cute, or showing off his ignorance. There are no jaywalking suspects, because that would presuppose a crime, and in Austin, like to my knowledge everywhere else, jaywalking isn’t a crime. It’s a mere violation.
Note that quite a few posters at Youtube are very happy about Miss Stephen’s treatment, and have showered her with racist and sexist invective, while lying about the way cops treat blacks and Hispanics. I hasten to remind my readers not to get on the "serves her right, she's an Bobo/SWPLer/petit bourgeois communist herself" bandwagon. We must keep the 0.1 percent chance that Miss Stephen is a normal, patriotic American foremost in our minds at all times.
f0rumrr
All i see is a spoiled bitch with a sense of entitlement that she thinks she is above the law. Nothing special here, just some cops teaching idiot kids respect.
FreeWeed
a little bump in the road of your life as an attractive white woman. boo hoo
sixgunstrawberry
Okay look, YES, the cops are being absolutely ridiculous in this video and jaywalking should only be a ticket at the most. But, come on, this girl is being ridiculous as well. She's losing her shit completely. They weren't beating her or using crazy force, they were just being assholes. Screaming and sobbing when you aren't being physically harmed is not going to help the situation. I totally get why she was upset because she shouldn't have been handcuffed or taken to the station at all, but jesus, get your shit together. I've lived in Los Angeles for my entire life and I'm a white female. Shit like this happens ALL THE TIME to black and Latino people and you don't see theatrics like this girl was putting on. You also don't see people recording it or taking pictures, its just "business as usual" unfortunately. Reports of excessive force used by police in America is a growing and important issue. Its just a shame that it takes a white girl being unjustly handcuffed to get the issue to be taken seriously. Sorry Texas, tables can turn and cops can be dicks to white people too. Just some food for thought.
[The following comments were posted at the Austin American-Statesman.]
• Posted by overtaxed2 at 9:48 p.m. Feb. 21, 2014
Considering that the majority of the pedestrian fatalities occur on I-35 or North Lamar by illegal aliens, why aren't the police focusing on those areas if they are concerned about pedestrian safety?
And really, with 4 cops on the scene not one of them bothered to beat up & arrest the guy videoing the incident and take his cameras? What's wrong with them?
• Posted by TURTLEHEAD at 9:55 p.m. Feb. 21, 2014
Thank God she was white or all the Democrats...er....sheeple in Austin, would be lined up at the Capitol building picketing the violation of "their" Civil Rights. Looks like there may have been some "profiling" going on. Austin is a safer place this evening!!!!
• Posted by SkinnyPeteYo at 1:23 p.m. Feb. 22, 2014
Well I know I feel safer just reading this.
Seriously, this story has gone viral and has made APD look like a bunch of overweight, Gestapo morons. Even on a right wing, 2nd A supporting, all American forum that has a large number of LE members such as AR15.com some of their comments are:
Austin, LOL.
"Looks like those cops could use some jogging."
"How did those fat f**** even catch her?"
"Papers please comrade!"
"Manhandled for jay walking? Seems excessive to me."
And my favorite, " ID when voting, is racism. ID when jogging, is required."
• Posted by SkinnyPeteYo at 1:58 p.m. Feb. 22, 2014
I have it on good authority that when taken downtown some overweight cop at the booking desk named Gene told her she would have to change out of her clothes and into their uniform including removing those "ridiculous looking giant rubber feet" she was wearing.
To that she screamed "These are my real feet!" and broke into a maniacal laughter saying she was going to "sue their @sses off" using the Discrimination against people with deformities act.
Posted: 8:24 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21, 2014
Police Chief Art Acevedo: Officers acted appropriately in arrest of jaywalking suspect
By Philip Jankowski and Ciara O'RourkeAmerican-Statesman
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The arrest of a woman who police say jaywalked near the University of Texas campus Thursday drew criticism after a student posted video and photos of the incident online, drawing thousands of views and leading Austin’s police chief to defend the officers’ actions.
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.
Acevedo said he reviewed all reports and audio recordings of the arrest and concluded that officers acted appropriately in Stephen’s arrest. He said the woman had a direct line of sight to an officer in front of her trying to stop her. An officer ran beside her and grabbed her after yelling at her to stop several times, he said.
Stephen used profanity when speaking with officers, leading them to handcuff her, according to the chief. At that point, she sat down of her own accord, went limp and refused to provide officers with her name. Only after being placed in the back of a police car did she provide her name, Acevedo said.
“Quite frankly, she wasn’t charged with resisting and she’s lucky I wasn’t the arresting officer because I wouldn’t have been as generous,” he said.
Officers assigned to neighborhoods west and north of UT had fielded complaints about people not following pedestrian laws near the campus. Officers patrolled the area Thursday, issuing seven citations and 28 warnings. Acevedo said those assignments are designed to change behavior and “not necessarily” to issue citations or take people to jail.
He noted that 96 pedestrians have been killed and 1,757 injured in collisions with cars since 2009, not including a woman struck by a bus Friday on campus. The pedestrian is often at fault, Acevedo said.
UT junior Christopher Lee Quintero had been at a Starbucks across the street taking photos when he saw an officer grab Stephen and began videotaping her arrest. Quintero posted the video to a blog Thursday afternoon that drew thousands of page views. It shows Stephen sitting down handcuffed and eventually being led to a police car, where she began screaming.
“I was doing nothing wrong. I was crossing the street,” she says in the video.
Since its posting, the blog drew more than 50,000 views and was linked in various social media platforms.
Quintero said Friday that Stephen’s arrest seemed more dramatic when he witnessed it than it appeared on the video. He found fault with both Austin police and Stephen in the incident.
“I think (officers were) a little excessive,” Quintero said. “But (Stephen) started yelling and making commotion. I think she handled it poorly.”
“Thank you, Lord, that it is a controversy in Austin, Texas,” Acevedo said Friday. “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.’”
2 comments:
The "chief" of police is a carpet bagging Mexican token who was recruited from the Mexican majority cesspool of Fresno, California (a.k.a. "The Raisin Capital of the World."). Fresno is also home to neocon extraordinaire Victor Davis Hanson.
I don't know why the "progressives" on the Austin City council would recruit this Mexican buffoon, other than the fact that they have worshiped too long at the altar of diversity. Or perhaps they were thinking he would be a "role model" for the feral (but I repeat myself) Hispanics who have overrun Austin, and thus cause to minimize their daily displays of social pathologies.
So, Acevedo has had a credibility problem since the day he was hired.
He should concern himself with real crimes in Austin, such as "bleach bombs" being dropped on the heads of unsuspecting, under qualified, token Negro students who attend UT Austin on race based scholarships.
Here's an Austin story for you.
A couple years ago, two young rowdy renters (mild Dave and wild Dave) lived at the end of our street. They succeeded in making the lives of their next door neighbors miserable with their loud weekend parties. I didn't care for their behavior either, but thankfully my wife weren't forced to live quite so close to them.
One night, one of these neighbors ("Ski", a lady who'd served in the military) called the police about the latest loud drunken party going on next door. A single Hispanic female police officer showed up. She took one look at the two dozen or so drunken partiers, and then told Ski that if SHE didn't pipe down, she'd arrest Ski! Needless to say, Ski was incredulous. The Hispanic female police officer eventually left, having been of no use in restoring peace.
This jaywalking story reminds me of Ski's experience. Before I make my point, I'll say that I am very hesitant to make a blanket derogatory statement about police officers, because of the good ones out there. But I think the police officers in both these stories have something in common: they'd rather get tough with people who haven't done a damn thing, rather than deal with someone who might actually give them some trouble. It's a form of bullying.
One of this article's comments got my attention: illegal aliens are responsible for many of Austin's traffic injuries. If this is true (and it probably is), then APD needs to turn its attention away from young female joggers and towards real criminals.
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