In Austin Texas a woman was jogging.  Police claim she J-walked while jogging so they forcibly stopped her, handcuffed her and demanded id.

She did not have id in her skimpy jogging outfit, so they arrested her for “failure to identify”.

The Texas cops put her in a police car, took her to jail, booked her, mug shot, finger-prints etc., for J-walking and jogging without identification.

A guy across the street saw the whole thing and thought it was ridiculous.  He recorded the incident and took pictures.

Then the general public began using social media to express their outrage.

Unfazed by the action of his police officers, and profoundly unapologetic, the Austin Police Chief, Art Acevedo, told the media the jogger should be grateful the Austin Police Dept didn’t rape her.

His exact comment was:

“In other cities there’s cops who are actually committing sexual assaults on duty, so I thank God that this is what passes for a controversy in Austin, Texas.”

–  Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo

Full jogger story available here

Just yesterday we highlighted another egregious police violation  ironically also in Texas; Electra, Texas.   That case again surrounded police accusations about a passenger in a vehicle refusing to provide identification.

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The Electra, TX charges were dropped (because they were unconstitutional and the accused refused to cop a plea and/or admit wrongdoing) but during the pre-trial hearing the Electra State Prosecutor told the accused he too was lucky the police did not anal rape him and compared the Electra Texas Police Department to the movie Deliverance.

The prosecutor comments were recorded and undeniable.

Apparently, if you are stopped by police -at least in Texas- and you do not end up sodomized, raped or sexually assaulted, you should consider yourself fortunate.

Really ?

Really America?