Topic: Jason Mistrick

John Bush recounts his December 4, 2011, arrest in downtown Austin involving Officer Jason Mistrick (badge 4856) while walking with Matthew Medina and Danny Panzella. The incident began with a verbal exchange on 6th Street and escalated when Bush attempted to film police interacting with an intoxicated individual. Despite complying with orders to move behind a pole, both Bush and Medina were arrested and charged with failure to comply with a lawful order.

Following a court hearing, Officer Jason Mistrick allegedly approached Catherine Bleich in the hallway and dropped a folded four-page document on a bench next to her. The papers contained printouts of Bleich's Facebook profile with her real name and face circled, which she interpreted as a stalking and intimidation tactic. When confronted, Mistrick claimed the papers were "trash" before retreating into an employees-only area of the courthouse.

Catherine Bleich describes discovering that a Facebook user named "Max Rock" was likely an alias for Officer Jason Mistrick. The printouts handed to her showed the officer logged into the Max Rock account, which had previously engaged in strange, "split personality" chats with Bleich and Heather Fazio. The account claimed to have access to "23 moles" and ten gigabytes of screenshots targeting local activists.

Heather Fazio reported a case of alleged law enforcement retaliation involving a post on texaspolicecentral.com by an individual identified as Jason Mistrick. The post labeled Fazio an anarchist and shared her Facebook profile after she advocated for Copwatch, a practice of filming police to ensure transparency. Fazio denied provoking officers and detailed the prior arrest of former executive director John Bush as the catalyst for the online targeting.