There’s been an increasing number of incidents between law enforcement and antsy Americans eager to get back outdoors after being sick of ‘stay at home’ and state-wide lockdown measures. But often individuals’ desire for a rapid return to normal is butting up against continuing social distance measures still in place in most states, even those already opening up their economies.
A viral video showed one such recent tense encounter in Texas, when a park ranger attempted to break-up a large group of young partiers at a state park. It happened at the Commons Ford Metropolitan Park in Austin, Texas. A group on Lake Austin was reportedly unlawfully drinking and smoking on the grounds when a ranger approached and ordered them to “disperse” also due to people were not standing six feet apart.
That’s when things got physical, resulting in the officer being pushed or thrown into the water, according to widely circulating footage:
PARK PUSHING: Video shows a park ranger trying to get a crowd at Commons Ford Park to social distance before being pushed into Lake Austin. READ THE FULL STORY: https://t.co/JW8mzICvqD pic.twitter.com/gxiUKE20ZG
— KXAN News (@KXAN_News) May 2, 2020
Though the laughing group of what appeared to be college students took it as a prank, police later apprehended and arrested a 25-year old man for assault on the ranger. The man initially tried to run away as the ranger struggled to get out of the water.
It illustrates a rising trend of frustrated citizens coming up against local law enforcement eager to see safe distancing between patrons.
The Austin-American Statesman described the scene:
“Keep that 6 feet of distance with each other,” the ranger says.
Some in the crowd are heard saying “will do” and “I got you, man” before the ranger is pushed into the water.
Hicks could have “caused the ranger to strike his head on the dock as he was falling,” the affidavit says.
Other onlookers came to the ranger’s aid even apologized for the young man’s behavior.
The culprit was later charged with a felony for assault on a law enforcement officer.
Likely there will be many more such encounters in various contexts across states in the coming days, as more and more Americans begin taking matters into their own hands and defying state and local distancing orders.
A park ranger who was trying to disperse a crowd on a sunny Thursday at Lake Austin says he was pushed into the water. Police say a 25-year-old has been arrested in the case.
https://t.co/aQPgDC1fid— News 4 Buffalo (@news4buffalo) May 3, 2020
Though we might also note that fiercely independent Texans typically lead the way when it comes to such drastic actions signaling anger and defiance.
It is my sincere desire to provide readers of this site with the best unbiased information available, and a forum where it can be discussed openly, as our Founders intended. But it is not easy nor inexpensive to do so, especially when those who wish to prevent us from making the truth known, attack us without mercy on all fronts on a daily basis. So each time you visit the site, I would ask that you consider the value that you receive and have received from The Burning Platform and the community of which you are a vital part. I can't do it all alone, and I need your help and support to keep it alive. Please consider contributing an amount commensurate to the value that you receive from this site and community, or even by becoming a sustaining supporter through periodic contributions. [Burning Platform LLC - PO Box 1520 Kulpsville, PA 19443] or Paypal
-----------------------------------------------------
To donate via Stripe, click here.
-----------------------------------------------------
Use promo code ILMF2, and save up to 66% on all MyPillow purchases. (The Burning Platform benefits when you use this promo code.)
Good on them!!! This is the beginning of how one deals with tyrants…
Tell the copfuk to read 18 USC 241 and check back after he’s done some reading.
The more govt restricts, the great the probability people push back.
We all need to exercise our 2nd amendment rights in the environment we are in now. It demonstrates to our elected officials they should serve us.
Does the guy have a Go fund Me page?
I love white people…especially Texas white people.
The citizen went to far. Six feet outside is pure silly; we’d really need 16 or 60 ft to be safe but the Cop is doing his job as ordered and if he didn’t, he’d get fired. Tell him he’s wrong and why but spread out some and take the issue to a “higher court”. Pushing a Cop is assault and will get you arrested. TPTB want to create Chaos; don’t hand them another Fort Sumter like excuse.
Oh please. At this point it really doesn’t matter what they “want” or “don’t want”. Washington’s already painted itself into a corner that they stand no Earthly chance of getting out of. They wouldn’t be acting so cuckoo bananas if they weren’t on death’s door. The RoW is licking its chops as Washington and the USD circle the drain. The only people who don’t know it are the Screaming Karens and folks living Inside the Beltway.
I really hope you die by some totalitarian shenanigans, jackass.
If someone pushes me I am not pressing assault charges, because I am not a jack booted thug.
“I really hope you die”
we all have our approaching time.
There seems to be a difference here. I know many police officers personally and not one is a Jack Booted Thug or even close. I believe Urban hot heads are being set up for Chaos just like Lincoln set up South Carolina over Ft Sumter: Lincoln and the Industrialist-Banksters wanted war with the South then, and TPTB want Chaos now to unleash the UN Dogs on the USA. We should be making gardens and preparing for war now not asking for it.
I know right? Have several LEO friends. They are not enforcing any bullshit, unconstitutional orders. They laugh at these goofy politicians like mayor beetlejuice in chicago. So, a couple goofy cops someplace, somewhere try to enforce social distancing doesn’t mean they all are.
Oh Please Please send in The UN thugs..
We Americans have been waiting for that…
“I know many police officers personally and not one is a Jack Booted Thug or even close”
you’re not getting it. for lots of people here, it’s not that they hate cops or government policy or whatever. it’s that they hate other people. they hate anything that is “not them”. they experience society, culture, nations, mere other people around them, as evil oppression. so they experience cops, who they can’t ignore or get rid of, as “jack booted thugs” – not because of what cops do, but because they exist. good cop or bad cop is completely irrelevant to them – it’s all “not them”, so it’s all gotta go.
Fire the cop and all the Shultezs just like him.
Just doing his job? I don’t think so.
By telling them to stand six feet apart? No.
now yes maybe having them not drink in the park and many of them being underage that is his job but not to try to force bulshit 6-foot rule
‘I was just following orders’ didn’t work at Nuremberg.
If a person wants to sell his dignity to become a POS cop, that’s his business.
When the cop starts doing things against natural law and common sense, then he’s crossed the line and anything and everything that happens to him is his doing. If he were to mind his own business nothing would happen to him.
The S/S and the Stazi the KGB and the CIA and the FBI were all just following orders too……….
That’s called a non sequitur argument inciting division; the Park Ranger doing his job was not committing such a crime that you should label him as CIA/FBI/KGB etc no more than TPTB/SPLC should constantly label US good citizens Nazi or KKK because we support the Constitution, Christ, marriage, family farms, private schools, etc.
“That’s when things got physical, resulting in the officer being pushed or thrown into the water”
head count. how many here are ready to do exactly that themselves?
Good timing is everything.
Waiting until The Vaccine is made compulsory along with a snazzy quantum dot tattoo.
That’s where the trip wire is. Or perhaps when They come for my fowling piece, should that occur before.
“Good timing is everything”
don’t you mean waiting until someone else does it for you?
I see nine upvotes. how come I’m not reading about any y’all in the news?
This is hardcore social engineering at gun point. Stand here, stand there; no talking; don’t get so near her; back away from your child, you’re infected….
Who TPTB hate the most and want to destroy, they push their buttons the hardest: Christians, Conservatives, Constitutionalist, straights, Southern White males, Deplorables, private and home schoolers, gun owners, small businesses, farmers and ranchers, woke people (who get it about chemtrails, vaccines, GMOs, Banksters, vote fraud, censorship, political Party and Illumanati-Mason control, MSM propaganda, Satanism, Pedophilia, the Chosen, etc).
No politician judge or law enforcement officer has any authority to tell you you must stand six feet apart it is bullshit.
While I don’t think it was right to push the ranger in the water it happened in the idiot will pay the price
This is absolutely not the way to deal with this situation. Seriously folks, if you ever find yourself being scolded by a mini-tyrant for being alive near a body of water or other expanse, the only proper maneuver is the sparta kick. He gets wet, or dead, you don’t.
and would you do that yourself?
What do we call the male counterpart of a Karen… a Brad ? If so this scarf wearing fag is definitely a Brad and got exactly what he deserved.
Flash, I remember how we disagreed and once argued about Cops; I believe it boiled down to location, location, location. Urban and Rural life is often like night and day. The Urban Jungle Cops, their problems and behavior is vastly different from the usual conditions in the Heartland of Fly Over America.
Watch the whole thing.