"A day after a Texas sheriff caused an uproar by referring to undocumented immigrants as “drunks,” his son was reportedly arrested on charges of public intoxication and indecent exposure." -Daily Beast
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2019/10/12/tarrant-county-sheriffs-son-arrested-on-indecent-exposure-charge/

How did the driver not get public intoxication charge also?

I understand your point, but I disagree.
True, they CHARGED him with failure to disperse, along with public intoxication, battery on police, and resisting arrest, and we can see clearly that most of their accusations (delineated in the link) were lies. Also, they didn't arrest the woman standing with him or any of the other bystanders (except the one 'friend' that touched a cop), which to me indicated that was not an issue for them at any time. Also, he was in a small alcove off the sidewalk, not in anyone's way or interfering, unlike several bystanders. The closest officer comes over to him, walking around numerous others to get there, only when the cell phone is noticed. It looked to me like he was going for the phone himself, then went 'tough guy' when he complained about the theft by officer 2.
That's why it seems clear to me they arrested him for filming them and made up other charges later, it's almost certainly the reason they stole his phone. Maybe I'm wrong, but it is my take.
And @speechless is right, I couldn't fit all that in the title. ;-)

The guy in the back looks wayyy drunk or high on something. The cops were probably taking him in for public intoxication (complete assumption), he wasn't even cuffed, or at least I didn't see him have cuffs. so I doubt they thought he was any real threat.

I wish police were held personally responsible for their actions. Overstepping their authority, making up shit, causing this guy a lot of time and money for doing absolutely nothing wrong.

THEY need to be arrested, put a helmet on their heads and pulled off without undoing the straps, stripped searched, held in a cell, hire an attorney on their own money (not the taxpayers), made to prove their innocence of made up charges BEYOND a reasonable doubt.

Good thing this guy has video of it all. I hope he sues their asses and recovers money for his expenses, time and bullshit and the police involved are fired.

I just get fired up cuz similiar situations have happened to me. Like I was once arrested for public intoxication while being a passenger in a vehicle that got pulled over for no reason (they seen our vehicle pull out of a bar parking lot). They hauled the driver and myself to the station, impounded his truck but since he was under the limit, they allowed him to walk out the door to the other door and bail me out. Since this happened in AR and I live in OH, they knew I wouldn't come back to court to fight the BS charges.

Statement From Antonio Buehler:

On January 1st, 2012 sometime between 1:00 am
and 1:30 am, I was driving my friend home from
a New Years Eve party. I was the designated
driver and was sober. We pulled into the 7-11 on
Lamar & West 10th in Austin TX to get gas, and
we saw ourselves near a car that was pulled over
with two police cruisers behind it. A black woman
was being given a field sobriety test in the cold.
She seemed to be getting bossed around by the
cops, and we both took notice. They had her doing
the heel to toe test in high heels. In the passenger
seat was a young Hispanic lady who appeared to
be on her phone.
She was doing nothing aggressive.

As we finished pumping gas, a cop had gone over
to the passenger side door and opened it.
Soon after we heard a terrible scream and watched
in horror as the very built cop started yanking this
poor girl from the car. The other cop came up
and joined in on the abuse.

My friend and I stayed within two arms lengths of
the truck, and tried to take pictures and yelled at the
cops to stop assaulting the girl.

After that, one cop came up to me yelling at me and
asking why I was taking pictures. I said it was my
right in public, and he pushed me into the truck and
started yelling in my face. I asked him why he
pushed me, I put up my arms to show I wasn't a
threat, told him to get out of my face, and that I had
done nothing illegal. He then grabbed my arm, and
pinned me against the truck, at which time
he claimed I "spit" on him.

They arrested me, claimed it was for "interfering
with an investigation". By the time I got to their
truck, it was a DUI and they made me blow. It didn't
register, and by the time I got to jail it was then a
"felony harassment" and a "resisting arrest" charge.

The woman was arrested for "public intoxication".
The cops said that she was interfering with their DUI
investigation because she yelled to her friend not to
submit to any tests. Interestingly, neither of us was
charged with interfering in an investigation.

hard drugs really arent "actively prohibited" in the netherlands as you keep suggesting. My brother recently spent a month there and based on his experiences, i'll remain entirely skeptical of your insistence of "actively prohibited". Additionally, i recently watched a documentary called The American Drug War and one of the segments was on amsterdam where they filmed this complete junkie smoking crack...........about 20 feet from a cop. Again, i'll remain skeptical.

you really should read up on prohibition in the states because alcohol certainly was criminalized. it wasnt just the sale and distribution that was outlawed, you so much as had a beer in your hand, here comes the law.

now the alcohol trafficking i was talking about was just any old joe, which i thought wouldve been obvious given the nature of the converstaion. Of course you can manufacture, distribute, and sell alcohol......if you have the proper licenses, convenient how you left that out. If i were to brew my own beer (and get caught) and/or distribute it or sell it, then i can be fined or worse because i do not have a liquor license or a license to manufacture or distribute. I had hoped that this was understood but guess i'll put in play doh terms so as to not confuse you.

as far as a heroin model is concerned, i dunno because im not a doctor. But i'd say a start is an age limit, say 21, purchasable through pharmaceuticals, probably require a prescription (what would warrant a prescription i dunno cuz im not a doctor), maybe have a background check as part of the prescription (ie no sale to violent offenders, same as guns, something like that) and have the same laws attached to it that everything else does. by which i mean buying alcohol for minors, public intox, etc

Drug Prohibition is draconian and idiotic, some of the worst laws on the books.

With something natural like shrooms, kids will still get a hold of them if they're legalized for adults, but they also might educate themselves and respect the drug.

Public intoxication needs to be curbed, but how many drunks flood the jails at all hours versus a dumb kid?

He's being charged with felony battery of a police officer, obstructing and resisting an officer, disorderly conduct and public intoxication.

lol, public intoxication strikes again

>> ^thinker247:
sigh
First of all, I lived in the South, and that tiny road could be construed by a pig as a highway. He always wants to think he isn't a redneck cop in a podunk town; that he's some important public figure.
Secondly, the aforementioned fact explains why he sprayed the man. Why simply laugh at the situation and take the guy in for public intoxication when you can spray him, whip him around like a drunken rag doll, and add resisting arrest to his record? As I said, he's got nothing to do in his town. Fucking pig.
[Edit] At least the guy wasn't on a skateboard!


As arsenault mentioned, cop was more then patient enough with the guy. You have public drunkeness, drunk driving, littering, and public urination.

Now, take into account the guy thought it was a good idea to do the latter two IN FRONT of the cop. All the while not producing a valid drivers license as the cop asked him to do, in a polite manner I might add.

And in all honesty, If someone took their wang out in front of me in any public place, and I had pepper spray, you'd best believe that guy's getting a pepper-spray shower.

*sigh*

First of all, I lived in the South, and that tiny road could be construed by a pig as a highway. He always wants to think he isn't a redneck cop in a podunk town; that he's some important public figure.

Secondly, the aforementioned fact explains why he sprayed the man. Why simply laugh at the situation and take the guy in for public intoxication when you can spray him, whip him around like a drunken rag doll, and add resisting arrest to his record? As I said, he's got nothing to do in his town. Fucking pig.

[Edit] At least the guy wasn't on a skateboard!

Remember this one, poor Tom, he faced quite the non-linear onslaught, and started to nut......! Lived in Dallas when the Sex Pistols came...they made the front page of the Times Herald, their arrest for lewd behavior, public intox, spitting on fans....then came the 80's, and the U.S. Punk scene....fueled by the fast-burning flame of doom, Sid Vicious, and Texas was a big part of it, since they left such a mark.....
Butthole Surfers
The Big Boys
Rally Red
The Judys
Cultureside

upvote for parable. A friend of mine in college spent a weekend in jail on charges of public intoxication for flipping off a cop - while sitting on his front porch. Moral of the story - don't fuck with cops. Even if they are in the wrong, they can still crack your skull open.

In what way? I don't necessarily disagree, I'd just like to hear actual reasons in addition to opinions.

Also, it depends on the work. If someone is stoned while painting a house, he'll probably hurt nothing but himself. If he's stoned while mixing concrete, I suppose there's some chance he could get the composition wrong and compromise the structure. If he's stoned while driving your kids to school...

There are countless reasons why Joe Anybody shouldn't have free access to elicit drugs. No one is saying Grampa Glaucoma shouldn't have free access to weed. Of course he should - many drugs have valuable medicinal use. But making heroin or cocaine readily available, or hell, even just pot to youngsters, is not going to bring about anything good, no matter how 'harmless' it is to just puff and chill out.

There are laws against underage drinking and smoking. Laws against public intoxication. Laws against drug dealing, possession and use. They're there for a reason, and not because jails are too empty. Yes, jail is not the right answer in most cases. But neither is putting it in everyone's hands. We're members of a society, and one that tries to come up with a set of rules that work toward the advantage of that society and its members. Not all of them are perfect... hell, many are just fucked up. But trying to keep individuals and families and the society itself protected from the myriad devastating effects of drug abuse isn't one of them, I don't think. Hell, 60% of this country (US) can't stop overeating to obesity, and the government actually had to step in to stop cigarette companies (bad guys, ooh!) from marketing to children, but we want drugs to be legal?

Why don't we just do away with law altogether, and trust that everyone will just play nice?