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Thu Apr 16 00:12:13 CDT 2009 | 24 years old | PEDESTRIAN/WALKED ON ROADWAY WHERE SIDEWALKS PROVIDED

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Thu Apr 16 00:12:13 CDT 2009 | 24 years old | PEDESTRIAN/WALKED ON ROADWAY WHERE SIDEWALKS PROVIDED

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michael_slater 1128 days ago

STAY OFF THE GRASS IN DENTON

afihavok 1131 days ago

and by 'got a ticket' i mean 'got arrested'

afihavok 1131 days ago

geeeze...he got a ticket for not paying his ticket or going to court...not for jaywalking itself. calm down...lol

SchellerTX 1131 days ago

criminals go and where overnights go. Also, there is probably much more to the story, but we'll never know because they don't show the testimonial from either the officer or the arrested.

SchellerTX 1131 days ago

: Seeing as how 2 are from Canada (ha), 1 is a self proclaimed 'tard', one can't spell 'rapist' (how hard was that?) and the other being a web geek... I don't think they know much about the penal system, in that they don't know where crimin

blakejustblake 1133 days ago

I'm hoping that they're not putting rapists and murderers in the jails, because they belong in the prisons. Jail is not prison, they're not sending jay walkers to prison. There's probably more to the story than him just walking on a roadway where sidewalk

2kbratz 1133 days ago

Are you serious this is why he have no room for the rappest and murders because all the J walkers are filling up the jails

derekpurdy 1133 days ago

Yeah, this is pathetic. This is definitely a discrimination charge.

richatard 1134 days ago

You guys are missing the point. He wasn't walking down the street, he was BLACKING down the street. You can't just walk around while black in texas, it's a crime!

brandonsadkins 1134 days ago

yeah this is bull. some of these arrests make me second guess the police force, the government, and texas itself

BCLobbyist 1134 days ago

Do you guys not have enough real criminals to fill your jail? This is seriously inane arresting someone for jwalking, come on stop wasting taxpayers dollars on this sort of nonsense!

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