Austin Family Concerned for Their Safety After Austin Police Officer Leaves Cryptic Intimidating Message with Mother and Baby
March 9, 2012 in Press Releases
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Austin Family Concerned for Their Safety After Austin Police Officer Leaves Cryptic Intimidating Message with Mother and Baby
March 9th, 2012
Contact: JohnBush512@gmail.com 512-773-6102
Austin, TX – What started as a normal court hearing for a charge of “failure to comply with a lawful order”, ended with the arresting officer, Jason Mistric (#4856), cryptically passing an intimidating note to Catherine Bleish, partner of the defendant, Austin activist, John Bush.
The papers tossed next to Catherine by Mistric were print outs of facebook screenshots of posts and comments regarding the arrest. To make matters stranger, the facebook account used to obtain the screenshots was that of Max Rock, a profile that local activists had suspected of being a police officer. In the months prior to the hearing, Max Rock, who those involved believe to be Officer Jason Mistric, had been friending and cyber stalking Catherine and other Austin activists. Text of the strange messages sent to Catherine by “Max Rock” are linked to below.
Officer Mistric has a history of intimidation and bully tactics and the family is concerned for their safety. They plan to file complaints with Internal Affairs and are considering filing a restraining order to ensure the situation is not allowed to escalate. Below is also a video of Catherine and John speaking to Chief Art Acevedo about the incident. They are hoping he does everything he can to help get to the bottom of this.
Catherine said of the matter, “I’m not sure what to make of it. Is he stalking me? Is he threatening our family? Was he acting as a rogue officer or was this part of his work? Creepy. To the max.”
Below is the first hand account of what happened to Catherine Bleish including video taken after the incident and a scan of the note that was passed. John and Catherine are available for media comment. Email or call contact info above.
On Thursday March 8th at 2PM I attended John Bush and Matt Medina’s pretrial hearing for their arrest last winter for filming an officer. That video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzL-admemJA
The hearing was reset, nothing special there, but what happened next was beyond strange. As I’m seated on a bench in the hall outside the courtroom, the man who kidnapped John and Matt, Officer Jason Mistric (badge number #4856) sets down 4 pages of printouts containing facebook conversations about John and Matt’s arrest. Here are the docs he left: http://www.scribd.com/doc/84606517/max-rock-cop-jason-mistrick-creepy-stalker-arrest-john-bush
When I chased him down in the hallway and asked him about his action he says its “trash” then tries to have us kicked out of the public hallway. Here is video of the end of that confrontation: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10100180277474293
Next we spoke with the chief of police about the incident. He kissed our baby and smiled as he made a copy of the facebook printouts assuring us he’d call John. Here is that interaction : https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10100180286840523
When I looked closer at the printouts I realized the account he was logged into when he took the screenshots was an account I had conversed with a few weeks back. In fact the account, “Max Rock”, was an account many of us thought was a cop because it was only commenting on recent Austin arrest videos and asking obvious questions, so of course, I had chatted him up trying to get info. The conversation was WEIRD and ended with him saying he has many gigs of “screenshots”. Here is that conversation: http://www.scribd.com/doc/84607087/Creepy-Stalker-Cop-Pretending-to-Be-Max-Rock-on-Facebook
Here is my recap right after the event: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10100180311281543
Catherine Bleish, concerned mother and liberty activist
