Austin’s chief of police has had a bad week. First, a few of his cops were videotaped roughly arresting a woman for the crime of jaywalking. Then, in defense of his officers, he said that at least they aren’t raping people.

It started when police observed a female jogger crossing a street against the light.

When they stopped her, she apparently “failed to present ID properly.”

Now, at this point the cops had two choices.

Let it slide or brutally drag a screaming young woman to a police car and place her under arrest. They chose the latter.

Chris Quintero was sitting across the street at the time and decided to to record the incident when it was clear that it was spiraling out of control.

“I was sitting at the Starbucks at 24th and San Antonio,” Quintero said. “Then I hear a cop shout at an innocent girl jogging through West Campus with her headphones on.”

When she didn’t stop (she later told them she couldn’t hear their commands because she was listening to music), they grabbed her by the arm and threw on handcuffs.

“She repeatedly pleaded with them, saying that she was just exercising and to let her go,” Quintero said. [source]

The Police Chief said “it could be worse, we could be raping you” argument didn’t fly.

Instead of making people less upset, it enraged people further over the lack of seriousness the police department was responding to charges of police aggression.

What he hasn’t apologized for is how his officers mishandled the situation in the first place.

No one but the police chief was comparing it to sexual assault, but the officers were still out of line.

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