Editor's Note: The Eagle has produced this map based on information provided by the College Station and Bryan Police Departments. The map does not include all calls for service and the information is preliminary. Data provided by the police department may not accurately reflect the nature of the calls, and the status of reported incidents may change after further investigation. Locations are approximate.

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Posted by: On: Monday, June 15, 2009 10:35 PM

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While you are wrong about the highway (it has a very generic meaning in the TTC) you are right the officer had no reason to stop him. There are sidewalks on Longmire and that means you can walk either direction.
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Posted by: On: Monday, June 15, 2009 6:25 PM

Comment Title: Here's hoping it gets thrown out; read below
§ 552.006. USE OF SIDEWALK. (a) A pedestrian may not walk along and on a roadway if an adjacent sidewalk is provided and is accessible to the pedestrian. (b) If a sidewalk is not provided, a pedestrian walking along and on a highway shall if possible walk on: (1) the left side of the roadway; or (2) the shoulder of the highway facing oncoming traffic. That says "highway". A cul-de-sac is ANYTHING but a highway, and I'm pretty sure Texas Transportation Code differentiates between a neighborhood street like Longmire Court and a Highway. This would mean the officer had no legal reason to stop, or even place in handcuffs, someone who was doing nothing wrong.
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Posted by: student On: Monday, June 15, 2009 5:35 PM

Comment Title: So in other words....
taxpayer money is being wasted on people walking on the "wrong" side of the road. Meanwhile, that means the officer could've been putting time and effort ELSEWHERE that could actually keep the community safe. Folks gotta be kiddin me if you say this arrest was in the right. Because of time and effort put into this kind of stuff, there is less safety than there otherwise would be. People expect their taxes to be used for legitimate functions and for a good amount of safety provided for them with that tax revenue, but because of things like this, we haven't got the kind of safety that many people expect. Just remember that any one person can only be at ONE place at ONE time. So wherever there's someone getting arrested for walking on the wrong side of the road, there's probably something else (possibly of higher priority) that COULD have been done in another area.
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Posted by: On: Monday, June 15, 2009 2:34 PM

Comment Title: does no one care anymore?
This person was stopped for walking on the side of the road. Are you kidding me? If you think this is right, I hope you get cuffs slapped on you and thrown in a squad car because you started walking the so-called wrong way down a CUL-DE-SAC! The only thing this guy did wrong was resist. Cuffing someone for, lets hear it again, walking the wrong way down the street, is RIDICULOUS and this officer Hudson should be educated on what the differences are between wasting tax payers money and protecting this town. This guy had no weapons, no stolen property. He had drugs, one of which shouldn't even be illegal (unless you believe all the racist propaganda that was the basis for making it illegal in the first place).
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Posted by: On: Monday, June 15, 2009 12:17 PM

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This cop should be fired for wasting public funds on himself.
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Posted by: E On: Monday, June 15, 2009 6:06 AM

Comment Title: Rolling my eyes.
CSPD preserving Jaimie@CS's "emerald city".
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Posted by: Bryan Resident On: Sunday, June 14, 2009 9:19 PM

Comment Title: Re: Profiling
Hell yeah, if he looks like a damn thug up to no good, use any legal means possible to see what he is up to. What exactly do you think an officer on patrol is supposed to do on the eight hour shift?
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Posted by: On: Sunday, June 14, 2009 9:09 PM

Comment Title: _______BORED COPS_______
Everybody, just relax and be thankful that serious crime is so infrequent, that to relive boredom, the police have to harass a pedestrian for walking on the wrong side of the street. I know I'll sleep better tonight knowing that tax dollars are being spent to enforce walking on the correct side of the street.
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Posted by: witherspoon On: Sunday, June 14, 2009 8:50 PM

Comment Title: profiling
I see people walking on the wrong side of the roads a lot....especially when school is in....if it were a white person believe this cop doesn't bother the guy.... n he should've just stop n prolly wouldn't hav went to jail
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Posted by: bordergirl On: Sunday, June 14, 2009 6:34 PM

Comment Title: i bet
he's not a white man. because if he was, no one would have cared where he was walking.
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Posted by: On: Sunday, June 14, 2009 8:56 AM

Comment Title: *Sigh*
Only in College Station would police bother you for walking on the wrong side of the street.
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Posted by: Walker On: Sunday, June 14, 2009 8:55 AM

Comment Title: SmackDown
I didn't realize they were so strict in Navasota!
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Posted by: On: Sunday, June 14, 2009 8:12 AM

Comment Title: sounds dumb to me
if this guy would have listen to the cop he would have never went to jail or anything the cop just wanted this guy to walk in the right side of the road,,
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