A jogger who ran across a road with headphones and didn’t hear police call after her was arrested and hauled to the station for failing to identify herself.

Amanda Jo Stephen, 24, can be seen sitting on a pavement in Austin, Texas, as officers restrained her.

She had been out for a run at roughly 11am on Thursday when she allegedly jaywalked.

Chris Quintero, a student at the University of Texas, captured the entire thing after he observed the incident in a coffee store opposite and decided to come out and document the scene.


It is believed that an officer chased Stephen and grabbed her hand from behind, with her immediate reaction to push him away.



‘Not knowing it was a cop, she jerked her arm away,’ Quintero wrote on his blog.

The student is held by a police officer after apparently crossing the street with headphones on (Picture: YouTube/Lucid Life)

‘The cop viewed this as resisting arrest and proceeded to grab both arms tightly, placing her in handcuffs. She repeatedly pleaded with them saying that she was just exercising and to let her go.’

In the shaky footage she can be seen visibly distressed on the floor and shouting to Mr Quintero: ‘I didn’t do anything wrong! I just crossed the street!’

He added in his blog: ‘The other officer strolled over and now they were making a scene. She tried to get up. I doubt she was running away as she was in handcuffs, but the second cop pushed her back down to the ground.’

A spokesperson for the Austin Police Department claimed that officers were working on ‘pedestrian enforcement’ to ensure traffic safety.

They told MailOnline that the jogger has been charged with failure to identify and a class B traffic signal violation.