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Grassroots Leadership and Communities of Color United, which both called on the council to make $220 million in cuts to the department — about 50% of the police budget — said the budget as approved did not “meet the moment.”. stands for the RISE Fund, Equity Office, Austin Public Health Department, and Low-Income Housing, which includes a proposal for a $220 million police department budget cut for which Austin-area activists at the Communities of Color United group have been advocating. City councils around the country have been voting to cut police department budgets, including Los Angeles, which voted to cut $150 million from its proposed $1.86 billion budget, and New York City, which slashed $1 billion from its nearly $6 billion budget. In early June, four council members said they had lost faith in Austin Police Chief Brian Manley after his handling of those protests. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Our officers are currently some of the highest paid in the state of Texas. Ramos was pulling out of a parking lot when police officers shot and killed him. The charges dismissed by U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel, who cited a precedent that protects federal agents from local prosecution. That outcry continued Wednesday, when more than 200 people — most of whom supported the cuts or urged the council to cut deeper — signed up to speak as the council convened.
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When the two came outside, Smith drew his weapon and Park walked quickly away from the scene. Map of Austin Police Department's jurisdiction. The Austin City Council on Thursday voted to cut the police department's budget by tens of millions of dollars. However, the council said it may allow one or two cadet classes to begin in fiscal year 2021 if a revised curriculum is completed and a "more appropriate recruitment program" is implemented. Couch was pronounced dead at the scene.
Freeman encountered Joseph naked and standing in the street. Glasgow was indicted for criminally negligent homicide by a grand jury but prosecutors later dropped the charges for insufficient evidence. Brown fled from Olsen on questioning.
Olsen said he shot when Brown reached for his waistband while running away, but a witness said Brown was pulling his pants up.
Christopher Taylor and two unidentified officers. Two members of Undoing White Supremacy Austin, a local group that seeks to promote racial justice, read a testimony from Alicia Torres Don, an Austin resident who said she is concerned that the money from the police budget will not be redistributed quickly enough under the council’s plan.
They are going to ignore the majority who do not want the police defunded.
Patrol car video confirms that Contreras did point a gun at police. One supporter of the resolutions, Jacqueline Horn, said she attended the first weekend of protests in Austin with a friend and saw civilians being tear gassed by police outside Austin City Hall. *Cases were selected based on the NAACP Austin Branch's list of 1984-2020 questionable use of force deaths,[7] as well as cases that were the subject of significant protests, media coverage, disciplinary action, judiciary investigation, or cases in which officers were involved in other controversial deaths or incidents. Police responded to report of man lunging into traffic. A majority of the city council voiced support for replacing its police department with a new agency with a “public health-oriented approach” to public safety. As of Fiscal Year 2018, the agency had an annual budget of more than $442 million and employed around 2,646 personnel, including approximately 1,900 officers. "The possibility of holding a cadet class in FY21 is dependent on numerous factors and will be reassessed throughout the year," Tate wrote in an email to The Texas Tribune. Best resigned Monday, saying she was fine with a pay cut, but refused to fire young officers. Schroeder defended the shooting by saying that Rocha was reaching for her taser. A fight started between Ekiye and the four officers, which ended when the officers handcuffed him and held him face-down on a water bed. “We’re going to improve public safety and Austin together,” Adler said. The Austin Police Department has also come under fire for its use of so-called less lethal munitions, like rubber bullets and bean bag rounds, during the recent protests. The Austin Police Association, a police union that represents more than 1,800 officers, opposed the measures. Gov. expressed their disagreement with the decision to cut the police budget. “I fanned her.