Two Austin Men Beaten By Police For Jaywalking

Let’s face it…The legal system hides cop corruption and we recognize it

Is this how the police are making us safer?

Typical liberal Gestapo.

#BlackLivesMatter … Oh wait, they’re not black, so it’s not racism, just corrupt cops. Carry on here, nothing to see.

What a piece of crap article, the Internet killed journalism.

I’m starting to get disappointed in the police departments they want to hurt people for little crimes and attack lives that worked hard for it when there are sicker lives out there that needs that type of attention I hope god don’t shed the light on them and kick there azz in America or in the planet the police are becoming ridiculous lately

Pretty clear cut case of resisting arrest….

Regardless of anything else, I’m relieved they did not rape nor sodomize anyone. This shows extreme self-control by the police of Austin, and I am just bursting with pride at this statement! Anyone who doesn’t like it can move to France.

Was it really just Jay Walking? Or, are we missing something here?

Blue is the new brown shirts.

2 things,, these cops seem to be wearing helmets and riot gear,,,they were looking to hurt people, 2d the chief comments twice about,,at leat they didn’t rape or sodomise them? does his officers routinely do that?

Nothing else heinous going on in Austin but Jaywalking? No gang activity? No drunk drivers? No bank robbers? No illegals working in the bars?

More of that “protecting and serving nonsense”.

the demorat scum need a whoopin

The one stat the NYPD never releases is how much $$$ they pay out yearly for police misconuct.

No wonder why more and more cops are being shot nowadays. I feel no pity for them.

Well, in all fairness, it *IS* the only way a texan ever learns anything.

Well is jay walking against the law in Austin or not? I get tried of folks walking against lights, walking across streets with complete disregard for traffic, and their arrogance when called on their illegal behavior. And they’d likely want a driver that hit them to be accountable for their lack of reasonable judgement.

Were these guys like the jogger that disregarded a police order to stop? If so, they, like her, got what they deserved. Lack of self-discipline, manners and accountability in this and future interactions with police and others likely will not serve them well.

Texas turning into a State of . It would be a good idea for them to leave the Union and go join Mexico same set of Standards, none.

I am white…slaves are not…whites are smart enough to get a job

Please X, from now on clean yourself after using the toilet. It is affecting your ability to recognize that YOU are a subhuman, Uncivilized zero in the scheme of things. You should not shame your half wit inbred parents by posting here

Hello America:

Here’s a little truth from a sitting Judge that finally tells the truth about your “Constitutional Rights” and how “OUT OF CONTROL COPS” violate them at will on a daily basis:

“Police So Out of Control, this Judge Explains How and Why You should Always Flex Your Rights”

Washington, D.C. – A sitting judge, Justice Janice Rogers Brown, has advised citizens on how to deal with police attempting to engage in “fishing expeditions.”

Brown urges citizens to address officers “firmly, politely, (and) respectfully,” and to exercise their right to end “voluntary” encounters with police by stating:

I do not wish to have an encounter with the police right now. Am I free to leave?”

On Tuesday, Brown, as part of a three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, said members of the Metropolitan Police Department’s Gun Recovery Unit are allowed to approach people on the street. They can then inquire as to whether they were carrying firearms and would consent to a search.

While agreeing that those encounters are legitimate, Brown expressed displeasure with the situation by writing a separate concurring opinion.

“Our jurisprudence perpetuates a fiction of voluntary consent where none exists,” Brown wrote.

The honesty from a sitting judge was refreshing, yet startling, as Brown wrote:

With the guise of voluntary consent stripped away, the reality of the District’s regime is revealed. It is a rolling roadblock that sweeps citizens up at random and subjects them to undesired police interactions culminating in a search of their persons and effects. If the Fourth Amendment is intended to offer meaningful protection in the context of Terry stops, the voluntary-consent exemption cannot be used to engage with members of the public en masse and at random to fabricate articulable suspicions for virtually every citizen officers encounter on patrol.

What Brown is essentially saying is that when militarized officers dressed for war, approach civilians on the street and request that they allow a search, citizens have only the illusion of freedom in that situation. The person is being coerced to comply, as the officer will often attempt to use a refusal or other reaction as a means of justifying the search.

Brown says if an officer states a person can’t leave, “then coercion will cease to masquerade as consent. Our courts will be forced, at last, to directly grapple with the reality of the District’s policy of routinized and involuntary seizures.”

The commentary from Brown was in response to the case of Will Gross, which was before the court.

According to the National Law Journal:

Gross was walking in southeast Washington when police officers in a car pulled up next to him. One officer said, “[H]ey, it is the police, how are you doing? Do you have a gun?” Gross didn’t answer. The officer then asked, “Can I see your waistband?” Gross lifted up his jacket and the officers started to drive away.

But another officer in the car was suspicious and asked the driver to stop. As the officer stepped out of the car, he asked Gross if he could check him for a gun. Gross ran away. During the chase, an officer said he saw Gross pat his right side, which the officer suspected might mean he had a gun. The officer caught up to Gross and put him handcuffs. A frisk revealed a .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun.

The D.C. Circuit agreed with the trial judge that Gross wasn’t subjected to an unlawful seizure under the Fourth Amendment when an officer first asked if he was carrying a gun and if he would show his waistband. D.C. Circuit Judges Sri Srinivasan and Harry Edwards heard the case along with Brown.

This case was not the first time Brown has raised questions about police tactics, as she wrote a dissenting opinion in a 2007 case that addressed when a seizure begins under the Fourth Amendment.

“In my view, truly consensual conversation (‘Have you seen this man?’) in which police are on equal terms with ordinary citizens is very different from a confrontation in which police target a particular person because they suspect him to be the criminal described in a police broadcast,” Brown wrote.

In that case, U.S. v Goddard, Brown took issue with officers with officers detaining a group of black men “conversing peaceably in front of a gas station” while searching for a suspect described as “a black male, 5’8” to 5’10” in height, about 180 to 190 pounds, wearing a black jacket or coat and blue jeans.”

“Apparently, a ‘lookout’ broadcast encompassing virtually any casually dressed black man in the vicinity made all black males fair game,” Brown wrote. “Such a generic description should never be a sufficient basis for a Terry stop.”

It seems that Brown has a very good understanding of exactly how police are utilizing the authority granted them by the state. Obviously this judge gets it.

When a sitting judge tells American citizens not engage in voluntary conversations with law enforcement, you might just live in a police state.

This important message from Brown needs to be heard by people across the America, please share this story and help empower your fellow citizens!

For anyone looking for a resource to learn more about asserting your rights, check out Flex Your Rights.org.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/d-c-judge-advices-citizens-engage-police.

Hello America:

Here’s a little truth about the “Gang in Blue” that the media and the members of the GOP/TP will deny but are actually factual:

“Police Are More Dangerous To The Public Than Are Criminals – Paul Craig Roberts”

The goon thug psychopaths no longer only brutalize minorities-it is open season on all of us -the latest victim is a petite young white mother of two small children.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36211.htm

Police Are More Dangerous To The Public Than Are Criminals

Paul Craig Roberts

The worse threat every American faces comes from his/her own government.

At the federal level the threat is a seventh war (Syria) in 12 years, leading on to the eighth and ninth (Iran and Lebanon) and then on to nuclear war with Russia and China.

The criminal psychopaths in Washington have squandered trillions of dollars on their wars, killing and dispossessing millions of Muslims while millions of American citizens have been dispossessed of their homes and careers. Now the entire social safety net is on the chopping bloc so that Washington can finance more wars.

At the state and local level every American faces brutal, armed psychopaths known as the police. The “law and order” conservatives and the “compassionate” liberals stand silent while police psychopaths brutalize children and grandmothers, murder double amputees in wheel chairs, break into the wrong homes, murder the family dogs, and terrify the occupants, pointing their automatic assault weapons in the faces of small children.

The American police perform no positive function. They pose a much larger threat to citizens than do the criminals who operate without a police badge. Americans would be safer if the police forces were abolished.

The police have been militarized and largely federalized by the Pentagon and the gestapo Homeland Security. The role of the federal government in equipping state and local police with military weapons, including tanks, and training in their use has essentially removed the police from state and local control. No matter how brutal any police officer, it is rare that any suffer more than a few months suspension, usually with full pay, while a report is concocted that clears them of any wrong doing.

In America today, police murder with impunity. All the psychopaths have to say is, “I thought his wallet was a gun,” or “we had to taser the unconscious guy we found lying on the ground, because he wouldn’t obey our commands to get up.”

There are innumerable cases of 240 pound cop psychopaths beating a 115 pound woman black and blue. Or handcuffing and carting off to jail 6 and 7 year old boys for having a dispute on the school playground.

Many Americans take solace in their erroneous belief that this only happens to minorities who they believe deserve it, but psychopaths use their unaccountable power against everyone. The American police are a brutal criminal gang free of civilian control.

Unaccountable power, which the police have, always attracts psychopaths. You are lucky if you only get bullies, but mainly police forces attract people who enjoy hurting people and tyrannizing them. To inflict harm on the public is why psychopaths join police forces.

Calling the police is a risky thing to do. Often it is the person who calls for help or some innocent person who ends up brutalized or murdered by the police. For example, on September 15 CNN reported a case of a young man who wrecked his car and went to a nearby house for help. The woman, made paranoid by the “war on crime,” imagined that she was in danger and called police. When the police arrived, the young man ran up to them, and the police shot him dead. http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/15/justice/north-carolina-police-shooting/

People who say the solution is better police training are unaware of how the police are trained. Police are trained to perceive the public as the enemy and to use maximum force. I have watched local police forces train. Two or three dozen officers will simultaneously empty their high-capacity magazines at the same target, a minimum of 300 bullets fired at one target. The purpose is to completely destroy whatever is on the receiving end of police fire.

US prosecutors seem to be the equal to police in terms of the psychopaths in their ranks. The United States, “the light unto the world,” not only has the highest percentage of its population in prison of every other country in the world, but also has the largest absolute number of people in prison. The US prison population is much larger in absolute numbers that the prison populations of China and India, countries with four times the US population.

Just try to find a prosecutor who gives a hoot about the innocence or guilt of the accused who is in his clutches. All the prosecutor cares about is his conviction rate. The higher his conviction rate, the greater his success even if every person convicted is innocent. The higher his conviction rate, the more likely he can run for public office.

Many prosecutors, such as Rudy Giuliani, target well known people so that they can gain name recognition via the names of their victims.

The American justice (sic) system serves the political ambitions of prosecutors and the murderous lusts of police psychopaths. It serves the profit motives of the privatized prisons who need high occupancy rates for their balance sheets.

But you can bet your life that the American justice (sic) system does not serve justice.

While writing this article, I googled “police brutality,” and google delivered 4,100,000 results. If a person googles “police brutality videos,” he will discover that there are more videos than could be watched in a lifetime. And these are only those acts of police brutality that are witnessed and caught on camera.

It would take thousands of pages just to compile the information available.

The facts seem to support the case that police in the US commit more crimes and acts of violence against the public than do the criminals who do not wear badges. According to the FBI crime Statistics http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/summary in 2010 there were 1,246,248 violent crimes committed by people without police badges. Keep in mind that the definition of violent crime can be an expansive definition. For example, simply to push someone is considered assault. If two people come to blows in an argument, both have committed assault. However, even with this expansive definition of violent crimes, police assaults are both more numerous and more dangerous, as it is usually a half dozen overweight goon thugs beating and tasering one person.

Reports of police brutality are commonplace, but hardly anything is ever done about them. For example, on September 10, AlterNet reported that Houston, Texas, police routinely beat and murder local citizens. http://www.alternet.org/investigations/cops-are-beating-unarmed-suspect-nearly-every-day-houston?akid=10911.81835.yRJa7d&rd=1&src=newsletter894783&t=9&paging=off

The threat posed to the public by police psychopaths is growing rapidly. Last July 19 the Wall Street Journal reported: “Driven by martial rhetoric and the availability of military-style equipment-from bayonets and M-16 rifles to armored personnel carriers-American police forces have often adopted a mind-set previously reserved for the battlefield. The war on drugs and, more recently, post-9/11 antiterrorism efforts have created a new figure on the US scene: the warrior cop-armed to the teeth, ready to deal harshly with targeted wrongdoers, and a growing threat to familiar American liberties.”

The Wall Street Journal, being an establishment newspaper, has to put it as nicely as possible. The bald fact is that today’s cop in body armor with assault weapons, grenades, and tanks is not there to make arrests of suspected criminals. He is there in anticipation of protests to beat down the public for exercising constitutional rights.

To suppress public protests is also the purpose of the Department of Homeland Security Police, a federal para-military police force that is a new development for the United States. No one in their right mind could possibly think that the vast militarized police have been created because of “the terrorist threat.” Terrorists are so rare that the FBI has to round up demented people and talk them into a plot so that the “terrorist threat” can be kept alive in the public’s mind.

The American public is too brainwashed to be able to defend itself. Consider the factthat cops seldom face any consequence when they murder citizens. We never hear cops called “citizen killer.” But if a citizen kills some overbearing cop bully, the media go ballistic: “Cop killer, cop killer.” The screaming doesn’t stop until the cop killer is executed.

As long as a brainwashed public continues to accept that cop lives are more precious than their own, citizens will continue to be brutalized and murdered by police psychopaths.

I can remember when the police were different. If there was a fight, the police broke it up. If it was a case of people coming to blows over a dispute, charges were not filed. If it was a clear case of assault, unless it was brutal or done with use of a weapon, the police usually left it up to the victim to file charges.

When I lived in England, the police walked their beats armed only with their billysticks.

When and why did it all go wrong? Among the collection of probable causes are the growth or urban populations, the onslaught of heavy immigration on formerly stable and predictable neighborhoods, the war on drugs, and management consultants called in to improve efficiency who focused police on quantitative results, such as the number of arrests, and away from such traditional goals as keeping the peace and investigating reported crimes.

Each step of the way accountability was removed in order to more easily apprehend criminals and drug dealers. The “war on terror” was another step, resulting in the militarization of the police.

The replacement of jury trials with plea bargains meant that police investigations ceased to be tested in court or even to support the plea, usually a fictitious crime reached by negotiation in order to obtain a guilty plea. Police learned that all prosecutors needed was a charge and that little depended on police investigations. Police work became sloppy. It was easier simply to pick up a suspect who had a record of having committed a similar crime.

As justice receded as the goal, the quality of people drawn into police work changed. Idealistic people found that their motivations were not compatible with the process, while bullies and psychopaths were attracted by largely unaccountable power.

Much of the blame can be attributed to “law and order” conservatives. Years ago when New York liberals began to observe the growing high-handed behavior of police, they called for civilian police review boards. Conservatives, such as National Review’s William F. Buckley, went berserk, claiming that any oversight over the police would hamstring the police and cause crime to explode.

The conservatives could see no threat in the police, only in an effort to hold police accountable. As far as I can tell, this is still the mindset.

What we observed in the police response to the Boston Marathon bombing suggests that the situation is irretrievable. One of the country’s largest cities and its suburbs-100 square miles-was tightly locked down with no one permitted to leave their homes, while 10,000 heavily armed police, essentially combat soldiers armed with tanks, forced their way into people’s homes, ordering them out at gunpoint. The excuse given for this unprecedented gestapo police action was a search for one wounded 19-year old kid.

That such a completely unnecessary and unconstitutional event could occur in Boston without the responsible officials being removed from office indicates that “the land of the free” no longer exists. The American population of the past, suspicious of government and jealous of its liberty, has been replaced by a brainwashed and fearful people, who are increasingly referred to as “the sheeple.”

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/09/16/police-are-more-dangerous-to-the-public-than-are-criminals-paul-craig-roberts/

Douche bag cops….

…Wholesale empowerment of law enforcement by unwise and incompetent politicians has led to gangs of uniformed thugs that murder and rob, almost, at will and who answer to no one and have total disregard for anyone or anything and demand absolute and immediate blind obedience.. This wild West of law enforcement must end.By restricting police arrest powers to the original precinct or zone or district to which they were assigned prevents officers from absconding. This greatly limits their ability for most of the abuses seen today. Likewise In the cities where this was implemented and after its passionate and fierce opposition by the police community, all later discovered and concluded it was a the preferred and better way. A big win for the good guys in the police community and the citizens as well who got their neighborhood beat police back. And by restricting traffic stops and other police matters to the departments they are supposed to be assigned to. Also controlling and restricting their police power. This stopped the illegal traffic stops. Outside their area they have no police power. This look but don’t touch method was very successful. Likewise police presence alone was sufficient to deter crime even though they had no arrest power.The losers were the neighborhoods that were stuck with the bad police whom , in many places,they refused to dismiss or fire them This was one of the safeguards that was removed from our Civil liberties. We wish this subverted due process and citizen safeguard to be reinstated. At this level this is the responsibility of the City Councils to enact these measures.

COPS ARE COWARDLY PUNKS WITH WEAPONS! IN OTHER WORDS…….”GANG MEMBERS WITH BADGES”

Oh jeeze… more fluff from the anti-police zealots…

Yeah.. at least they didn’t rape her!!! WTF, Texas.

I wasn’t physically assaulted in Austin last month but I visited there briefly, only to receive a bill from dollar rent a car for $48 and change. It states that I didn’t pay tolls on 3 occasions, one for 54 cents, $1.13 and a $1.54 with a $15 admin fee for each. I never saw a toll booth, so I’d like to know how a tourist is suppose to pay without incurring a $15 surcharge on top of the toll. Tell me city of Austin or dollar rent a car. I really would like to know. I was FUNDS dementally assaulted.

Look at those cops in action, they made that situation into a really big deal…just like that.

Cops Gone Wild! Cops Gone Crazy! Cops Gone Rogue! Stop turning America into a Police State.

Just another day in Texas.

All of those cops for a couple of jaywalkers. Welcome to Austin! Welcome to the police state.

This is insane!

No, they weren’t beaten for jaywalking. Are you REALLY that stupid???

Well………….the good news here is that these were White Men. Had they been black, their relatives would be attending a funeral next week.

So, the Austin police department is really as stupid as suspected? Any police chief coming to the defense of these thugs, should be fired….

Note to Austin’s Mayor: Standby for a lawsuit. I hope your city is wrecked by the settlement you’ll pay.

Don’t worry, Texas is such a profound mess from north to south, east to west, I’ll never set foot in there…..

just coopporate with the cop for any reason.Dont against until you go to court…

Well, the video had me laughing anyway.

If a cop punches you, you should have the right to fight back. If someone refuses to cooperate, get the taser out. Punching and kicking someone is not what cops are paid to do!

Phil .. you never jay walked ?

Okay, yes on the surface it looks pretty bad. However, this presentation ONLY gives you a partial story. It Does NOT show you the individuals actually jaywalking. Why??? That in itself is a strong indicator the “story” is media slanted. What you see here is the arrest process, while not knowing what previously took place. For all any of you know there could have been a BOLO on these two from a previous incident. The police may have spotted them and ordered them to stop and the “jaywalking” was actually them fleeing. Don’t be so naive while making up your liberal minds based on information you DON’T HAVE. Doing so qualifies it as willing stupidity.

Got stopped for Jay walking, and began mouthing off to the police, swearing, and fighting with officers. Yet they think they did nothing wrong. I guess it’s a black thing

Oops, looks like SOMEONE is going to Prison!

looks like a bunch of illegal spicks high on drugs resisting the police to me

Austin has one of the most touchy-feely police forces and city governments in the state. Naturally the indigent problem is really bad in Austin with hundreds of aggressive pan handlers and now college students who think it’s their duty as free thinkers to confront these officers. Don’t like the police, don’t like to follow rules, don’t like to obey instructions- well just remember the university student next to you may now be armed and may perceive you as the threat.

It would be nice to know what was happening before the phone’s clicked on. I know at the end a cop was saying he told them to do something(couldn’t make out what) a few times. There are so many of these things that only tell half the story, or make the story up altogether, that it makes you question the credibility of the event as reported. Boy who cried wolf stuff.

And in related news. a motorist was shot 47 times for failing to properly signal for a left turn. 😉

This is so beyond out of control. These are not legitimate tactics against a citizenry who they are supposed ‘to protect & serve’, as they claim.

The police, it seem to me, are deliberately ratcheting up the stakes of confrontation, attempting I can only guess, to get people to back down and re-accept the yoke they place around our necks,

Well, I will not be taken so sanguine, and would encourage all my fellow citizens to resists for your Freedoms & your Life!

What I am seeing today coming from the departments that are supposed to be protecting us is a scary situation. Whether all of this story is shown on video is immaterial, there is absolutely no need for police brutality, if they pull a knife or gun, ,shoot them if necessary but to beat them and kick them under these circumstances is unforgivable, Whatver it takes to clean up this country needs to be done, THAT INCLUDES THE SCUM BAGS IN D.C. that do nothing but take our money.

There’s definitely more to the story than the video clip is showing….most likely a set-up for the sake of shaming the police. Having said that, I don’t get the resisting arrest…. even if the arrest is uncalled for. Just relax… let them cuff… and the show is over. But that’s just it…. they don’t want ‘the show’ to be over. They just want to be instigators.

Steroids. Even the female cop acts roided up. Random roid testing for police is the only solution.

Most college kids deserve a beating..They sure never got any discipline at home…Im all for the cops kicking the chit out of them on a regular basis

White jaywalking lives matter! Why hasnt this made the news in Philadelphia!! Where is Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson!

Now that it happened to non-african americans, it is a big problem now… This country and its asinine aproach to equality… Blows my mind.

All of those cops for 2 jay walkers………….meanwhile in other parts of the city/state..(real) crime is being committed…AND to top it off the dumbest comment of the year made by the police chief about his officers “at least not raping the female” Sigh…..you guys make it so difficult to defend you. POLICE CHIEF: YOUR OFFICES ARE WRONG IN THIS VIDEO.

The way things are going in this country with the lawless rogue Pigs, they are lucky the Pig didn’t shoot them.

Cops beat you up and if you flinch they call it ‘resisting.’

Texas……Cops…….Republicans….recipe for disaster…

After scenes like this you wonder why the police adquire such bad reputation. They act like wicked villains from another planet. What makes more outrageously pathetic is seeing women (Policewomen) participating and enjoying the show.

All that for jaywalking?? The citizens needed to SWARM those thugs.

Why don’t they ever show the unedited version of these propaganda “videos”?

It’s amazing how many stupid idiots believe whatever is printed on the internet at face value. Cherry flavored or Grape?

You’d think after all of the negative publicity cops have been receiving that they’d be a little more circumspect in how they handled any given situation but these thugs are morons as well and need to go to jail. I’m a supporter of the police but not when they act like this.

some police can and sometimes do take things a little to far….

Perhaps, the people should have stopped and let the police write up the citation for jay-walking…..thereby avoiding this entire situation…..Oh, I forgot people think they can disobey ALL laws.

Once again. “Accidents happen on Purpose”

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Now let’s see the police cam videos and see what was omitted from this video.

Unless, of course, that doesn’t fit your agenda.

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Why didn’t they just give them a citation? A traffic offense is not a criminal act. You don’t get arrested for a traffic offense.

Maybe the cops should take an online poll and ask the public how to proceed in any circumstance. Yep, that is a great idea. Your home is getting shot up and the cops can pause and see if the public wants them to use force.

And police need to be held accountable for this kind of misuse of law! Until they are it is just going to escalate.