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Austin City Council defunds the police – reduces police budget by 34%, or $150 million

August 14, 2020 -

The Austin City Council, while officially a nonpartisan institution, is completely filled with officials affiliated with the Democratic Party, including the city's mayor, Steve Adler, who supported the motion to reduce the budget for his city's police force.

“I think this is the most forward-looking budget in memory,” said Adler on Thursday. “This is really the budget where we launch our future … as a fairer, more just, equitable, more universally acceptable city.”

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Austin City Council defunds the police – reduces police budget by 34%, or $150 million

August 14, 2020 -

The Austin City Council, while officially a nonpartisan institution, is completely filled with officials affiliated with the Democratic Party, including the city's mayor, Steve Adler, who supported the motion to reduce the budget for his city's police force.

“I think this is the most forward-looking budget in memory,” said Adler on Thursday. “This is really the budget where we launch our future … as a fairer, more just, equitable, more universally acceptable city.”

The ...

Austin City council officially calls for blowing up police station as symbol of ending police hate

July 29, 2020 -

(Article by Adan Salazar republished from Infowars.com)

“We should expedite the demolition of the APD Headquarters by directing the City Manager to move all remaining APD staff out of the existing headquarters building and into other underutilized city facilities,” reads the proposal submitted Monday by Council Member Jimmy Flannigan.

The existing APD property, prime real estate situated in the heart of Austin, would then be used to highlight black inequity ...

Austin descends into lawlessness following “defund the police” cuts targeting law enforcement

March 11, 2024 -

Reports indicate that the Austin Police Department is having trouble keeping staff on board, which we warned was happening at the height of the psychological operation known as the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) "pandemic."

In some areas of Austin, entire neighborhoods are going unpatrolled for weeks at a time. Response times for 911 in Austin are also getting longer and longer, leaving residents without emergency help in times of need.

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Report: Austin Police officers quit in droves, Texas City ‘hostile place’ for conservatives

March 06, 2023 -

(Article by Katherine Hamilton republished from Breitbart.com)

Multiple sources told the Post the city allegedly has more than 300 vacancies and officers are quitting “because they feel disrespected,” according to the report. The Austin Police Association said 77 more officers are expected to retire before the end of March. Lt. Brian Moon, who retired last month after 23 years of service, said Austin has become like Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco “where ...

Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong goes “woke,” cancels bike shop’s contract with Austin police

October 05, 2020 -

In a statement published on social media, the store, Mellow Johnny’s, confirmed that it will be walking away from its contract with the city of Austin two years before its scheduled conclusion.

“In the context of the current evaluation of community policing in Austin, we have decided to no longer purchase, re-sell, and service police-issue Trek Bikes and accessories under a City of Austin RFP the shop was previously awarded,” the shop said.

The contract -- originally ...

Police officers in Austin, Tex., are quitting in record numbers due to city’s “woke” transformation

April 09, 2021 -

Austin's new district attorney has also implemented a policy allowing for police officers suspected of engaging in misconduct to be reinvestigated even for cases that have already been closed. This is expected to drive even more of them to quit.

In January 2021, sources reportedly told PJ Media that 20 officers retired from the Austin Police Department (APD), while another eight resigned.

One month later in February, another five officers resigned while ...

Police in Austin leaving at record numbers over anti-cop policies as city becomes ‘hostile place’ for conservatives

March 10, 2023 -

According to a report by the New York Post on Friday, Austin, which left-leaning officials control, is experiencing a shortage of police officers, as both current and former officers noted the hostility towards law enforcement and conservative values as the primary reasons for the shortage.

The Post said that multiple sources reported that the city has over 300 vacancies and that officers are resigning "because they feel disrespected." The Austin Police Association ...

Billboards warn visitors to “enter at your own risk” as Austin Texas de-funds their own police department

September 14, 2020 -

Motorists traveling into the city of Austin along I-35 are now greeted by a billboard that reads, “Enter at your own risk. Limited support next 20 miles.” These billboards are sponsored by the Texas Municipal Police Association (TMPA) and are accompanied by the hashtag Back the Blue.

According to TMPA, the billboards are intended to raise public awareness that Austin is a de-funded city, with little to no support coming from the city’s liberal leaders. “This reckless ...

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Democracy is dead in Austin: Elections in Austin, Texas, are a farce... corrupt city council regime does whatever it wants, regardless of choice of voters

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Meet “Red Guards Austin,” a Marxist, Left-wing terrorist group based in Austin, Texas

August 12, 2017 -

One of these groups is Red Guards Austin, a left wing terrorist organization hell-bent on introducing communism into the United States. On their website, Red Guards Austin describes themselves as “an autonomous Marxist-Leninist-Maoist collective based in Austin, Texas.” In a section labeled “Why We Are Boycotting the Elections,” they explain how the “capitalist-imperialist system is one where the ruling class holds all the power, and because of that fact, the only democracy ...

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CITY IN COLLAPSE: Understaffed Austin police took so long to respond to DUI accident that the driver sobered up and avoided charges

March 28, 2023 -

Lacey Purciful was driving in North Austin with her husband and two children on the afternoon of March 18 when they were hit head-on by a male driver who cut across two lanes of traffic. She said: "Head on, didn’t hit the brakes, airbags deployed, screaming kids, smoke, adrenaline, we started screaming, and got the kids out of the car."

The driver, who was in his 70s, was described by a bus driver who witnessed the accident as smelling like alcohol and refusing to exit ...

Two delivery bombs explode in Austin; police believe they are linked to an earlier explosion as local authorities, FBI search for clues

March 12, 2018 -

According to local media, the first explosion on Monday occurred in the 4800 block of Oldfort Hill Drive in East Austin. That bomb killed a 17-year-old teen and injured a woman believed to be in her 40s.

A while later, a second explosion injured a 70-year-old woman in the 6700 block of Galindo Street in southeast Austin. Travis County emergency medical personnel transported the woman to Dell Seton Medical Center with “serious and potentially life-threatening injuries,” ...

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North America's water fluoridation debate: Battleground Austin

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Tesla launches first solar-powered neighborhood in Austin

July 15, 2021 -

The company said its "state-of-the-art" sustainable features will be installed in phases to "allow for ongoing learning and innovation." It added that Tesla V3 solar roof tiles and Powerwall 2 battery storage systems will be installed in phases at homes in the SunHouse community. The homes will be built on land in Brookfield Residential's Easton Park community, the press release noted.

The first phase of installation began in June, with a number of houses getting solar ...