Texas park ranger pushed into water after reminding crowd about social distancing
By: Dennis Romero (NBC News)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
A Texas park ranger advising revelers at a lake to practice social distancing because of the coronavirus pandemic was shoved into the water.
The ranger, identified in an Austin police report as Cassidy Zukeran Stillwell, was telling a group of parkgoers at Lake Austin to spread apart when he was pushed. Thursday's scene was captured on video and shared on social media.
"Disperse yourselves," Stillwell can be heard saying in the video. "You're not engaging in that six feet of distance with each other."
"I got you man," a reveler responds. "I got you."
Shortly afterward, a man pushes the ranger with one hand, and, as the ranger begins to fall, he grabs the man but slips and becomes fully emerged in the water.
Brandon James Hicks, 25, was arrested on suspicion of assault on a public servant and damaging city property, the ranger's emergency radio. Officials said he could have "caused the Ranger to strike his head on the dock as he was falling, and render himself unconscious in at least three feet of water where he could have drowned to death," according to a police report obtained by NBC affiliate KXAN.
The state on Friday began allowing retail stores, restaurants, movie theaters and malls to reopen with limited capacity following a month of widespread isolation orders sparked by the coronavirus pandemic.
Gov. Greg Abbott's stay-at-home order in late March did not prohibit people from visiting parks.
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There is a vid but I can't seem to copy it.
Hi Ender,
Found the video and posted it for you into the article. All I have to say is wow what a creep.
Thank you.
Yeah what a maroon. Almost had to laugh at the way he ran off at the end. Idiot.
It is considered assault on a LEO and the asshole who pushed him should get the max fine and imprisonment.
Make him pay for the radio too.
Absolutely.
Not funny. Even for a minor thing like enforcing social distancing, a lone LEO is in a scary situation when dealing with a group of people. He is vastly outnumbered.
So the ignorant assholes keep up defying the guidelines and shoot the infection and death numbers into space - "Ain't nobody gonna mess with my holy freedom - fuck the consequences." .
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Freedumb is bigger in Texas Buzz, hell, everything is bigger in Texas,
They'll damn well be proud when they can show New York they've got bigger numbers, eh?
Even the level of stupidity
I am surrounded by it, and not just on the internet, lol...
The ducks are stupid?
I was talking to my son the other night. They have a pond in front of their place where there was a goose hanging around for awhile. They call her Lucy. Well, Lucy disappeared for a few days and when she returned she had a flock of goslings swimming behind her. Now they have some more geese to name