That must mean either a pedestrian having not used an existing sidewalk or somebody driving their car on the sidewalk.
Any idea what is really behind this newspaperclip?
this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2026
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This looks like it could very well be a very serious crime, Walking While Black. They must not have that on the books in that particular Texas county, which is why he was charged with a comparable misdemeanor. /S
More likely that the cop stopped him for Walking While Black, but couldn't manufacture any charges more serious than the use of sidewalk charge.
Use of sidewalk in Texas (one of the counties listed) seems to indicate someone was walking in the road when a sidewalk was available for pedestrians. Which, ya know, seems like a safer place for doing the walking thang.
Aren't Texas sidewalks notorious for stopping randomly and switching sides not near crosswalks? So it's far from certain it would be safer than just booking it down the shoulder for a short stretch.
Which, ya know, seems like a safer place for doing the walking thang.
There was one street near me where it was indeed the opposite. The road was barely used, but pristine. Sidewalk was in awful shape, you could easily trip on the holes, and one manhole cover was bent and barely holding on, as it was actually just some metal sheet.
I only used it as a kid when I rode my bike, as it was more fun.
Fancy speak for "walking while black"
Yup. As a Canadian I was visiting TX many years ago and was dumbfounded when I saw a cop car roll past me, stop and then reverse.. All so they could pace beside a black man walking on the sidewalk. He was wearing a nice suit and carrying a briefcase, clearly walking home from work. Racist assholes.
When I was working on a TV set in a not great part of Brooklyn they used to have us production assistants walk to the subway together when leaving for the night. It kept a black member of our crew safe when NYPD decided to pace us and single him out for harassment for a whole city block.
😕 how horrible. I'm glad you all were there for him, it's shameful though that our society as a whole still cares about skin colour 💔
I took it as someone driving on the sidewalk
‘Walking While Black’, in my South Fl. rides I tell you driving on sidewalk or even parking on sidewalks enforcement is non-existent.
I think it needs a few more circles.
What's with the change in type face?
What’s with the bizarre spacing and random codes?
FTAX4, OCX5, MRPX2?
The spacing is just the text being set to have the same length in every line (not sure how that's called in english, but spacing is adjusted so that the last letter in every line lines up without having to split words). They also missed a space after a comma in one row which doesn't help with it looking weird.
No idea about the codes.
It's called justified alignment. It's formatted pretty badly, I think it's supposed to be a list, but formatted as text. The first line of each paragraph is indented, which looks absolutely awful when you have "paragraphs" that are merely two lines. You want the indent of the first line for long paragraphs to more easily find the next paragraph, but here it just makes the text look weirdly spaced with every second line sticking out.
Wait, I get it. It’s supposed to be two columns.
My mind was trying to “don’t dead open inside” and balking at the spacing.
Good thing we have professionals making newspapers eh?