Here in D.C.:

A man who was ticketed for jaywalking after being struck by a car in Washington, D.C., has died.

Police said 73-year-old Charles Atherton, a renowned urban designer and former secretary of the U.S. Commission on Fine Arts, died at a Washington hospital over the weekend.

Witnesses said Atherton was badly injured and lying unresponsive at a busy intersection when an officer issued him the $5 ticket.

Man lies dying in the street. Cop tickets him for jaywalking. Isn’t that a Monty Python skit?

There’s also this horrifying case in Dallas, where police pepper sprayed, roughed up, hancuffed, and arrested a man and his 14 year-old son for jaywalking. The man was eventually jailed for eleven days. Witnesses corrporrate the man’s side of the story, who was apparently refered to by one of the cops as a “fucking longhair.”

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