re: Arizona professor's jaywalking arrest quickly gets out of hand

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You want to make a law against running with scissors?

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I am really only a fan of laws that protect infringement upon your rights by others. I believe jaywalking laws do this, to a degree, in large cities. Imagine how long traffic would be delayed in NYC if people were allowed to jaywalk everywhere. In my opinion jaywalking, in that instance, would interfere with the rights of others.

Why does everyone keep mentioning NYC? This happened in Tempe, AZ during a summer night on a College Campus with an interaction by two campus employees.

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I am really only a fan of laws that protect infringement upon your rights by others. I believe jaywalking laws do this, to a degree, in large cities. Imagine how long traffic would be delayed in NYC if people were allowed to jaywalk everywhere. In my opinion jaywalking, in that instance, would interfere with the rights of others.

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Infringement on the lives of others is also a big one. A jaywalker can also cause other lives to be lost in an attempt to avoid the idiot who walks in front of traffic, causing driver to swerve and hit someone else either on foot or in another car.

It does affect the lives of others.

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Then say, "Hey, mam, will you kindly get out of the road so as to not obstruct traffic?" But if police did that, they would lose the tax collection racket.

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Why is it that every time a black person gets involved in any type of issue it because the other side is racist. I just don't get it. It's time to end the bullshite and just be people. Not black. Not white. Not brown. Grow up America.

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Every once in a while situations like these arise when both parties are unreasonable and things get out of hand quickly.

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don't kick an officer. You can't go around acting like a child.

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If people would just do what cops ask them to and stop bitching about "rights" then none of this bullshite would happen. She got what she deserved .

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If people would just do what cops ask them to

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Good for her. Dumb woman.

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I haven't watched the video yet but in many places - including Phoenix and Tucson - crosswalks can sometimes be 1 mile apart. Maybe they need more crosswalks not more jaywalking but until then it's almost a necessity for many.

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They're usually like that, but from the video provided she's in an area with a ton of crosswalks. And there are a ton of things that don't go in her favor (I biked this area 100's of times).

Dot is where I presume she is pulled over. Lines represent crosswalks. Where she is, there is a light rail line, two hedges on both sides of the light rail, one way streets on both sides of the light rail, and crosswalks galore. If she's walking in the middle of the street, she's either literally in the middle of a street walking in traffic or against traffic. There's no median to walk in unless you're playing stupid games for stupid prizes against 6 ton light rail trains on the train tracks. Police officer probably had good suspicions to think she may be drunk or something, so... Provide ID. Her fault IMO.

Based on her hairstyle, walking in the middle of the road and kicking the cop are just more instances in a pattern of poor decision making. Such intervention was probably necessary.

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I also want to add that CNN has edited the video several times now. At first it started at the beginning of the altercation, now the video starts by showing the woman being thrown to the ground.

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The MSM wants to paint their own picture? Shocking...