Memo to certain conservative state lawmakers: Austin isn't the only place in Texas that has had trouble with street takeovers.
The Austin Police Department said it received hundreds of calls as a result of the street takeovers this weekend.Viral video footage out of Austin this weekend shows people crowding around a police squad car, shooting it with fireworks and forcing it to retreat as officers responded to an intersection that had been shut down by stunt drivers. Other videos show cars drifting and doing doughnuts in the middle of the intersection.
“Many thoughts about this maddening lawlessness in Austin last night,” state Rep. Jeff Leach, a Republican in Plano, wrote in a post on Twitter. “But more than anything: God bless our brave men and women in blue! Especially those working in cities where they’re undervalued, underpaid and under attack, like in Austin.”
DPS Director Steven McCraw said in the press release that the takeovers put people’s lives in danger. “We are seeing fireworks fired at officers in crowds, lasers pointed at aircraft, drivers driving upwards of 130 miles per hour with no lights on in the dark of night — all of it is reckless, and it needs to be stopped,” McCraw said.
He said investigations would continue and more charges would likely be filed related to the Austin street takeovers last weekend.by email that street takeover events still happen on a weekly basis in DFW, “though few are of the magnitude observed in Austin last weekend.” Most of these events take place outside of the city of Dallas in surrounding suburbs, she said.
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