Mayor Watson’s DPS gambit gets messier as the city ends its agreement with the state and Gov. Abbott sends in more troopers.
The city of Austin abruptly ended its controversial partnership with the Texasmoved to undermine the will of Austin’s leaders by announcing he would assignCity leaders cited “recent events” that were not, as Interim City Managerput it, “in sync with Austin’s values,” as the primary reasons for ending the partnership. This likely references incidents of police violence, threatened or realized, by state police.
Abbott’s announcement comes on the heels of conservative uproar over Mayor Kirk Watson and Garza pulling the plug on the partnership prematurely, for what they see as an appropriately handled traffic stop. Austin Police Association President Thomas Villareal huffed-and-puffed over the announcement, writing in a statement that ending the partnership was “absolutely unconscionable.
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