Posted on 12/24/2023 2:40:20 PM PST by Libloather
A congressman with links to ‘The Squad’ who proudly voted to defund Austin police has been slammed after he requested enhanced patrols outside his home in the Texas city.
Democrat Rep. Greg Casar was a prominent voice in the defunding of the Austin Police Department as a member of the city council in 2020 following the Black Lives Matter movement. Last week he also criticized the force for alleged racist practices.
Now, he has submitted a request through the United States Capitol Police in Washington, DC, for a police patrol at his house - the request was forwarded to Austin police.
The politician was blasted by the Austin Police Retired Officers Association in a post on X Tuesday.
‘We want everyone in Austin to feel safe,’ it said. ‘But this seems to us as the height of hypocrisy from the congressman.’
Casar backed a vote to defund Austin Police as a city council member and it led to a police shortage as well as a wave of officers retiring from the force.
‘We did it!!’, he wrote in a post on X in August 2020. ‘Austin City Council just reduced APD's budget by over $100 million *and* reinvested resources into our community's safety and well-being.’
However, the Texas congressman sent a letter to the Justice Department last week where he criticized the Austin Police Department.
He wrote about the ‘need for systemic reforms to the Department's policies and practices of excessive and lethal use of force, racial discrimination, and discrimination against people with mental health conditions.’
The Austin Police Retired Officers Association was left unimpressed at his request for enhanced patrols around his house by the same officers he has criticized.
‘It’s come to our attention that Anti police king of the defund movement in Austin @GregCasar who...
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Austin is a Democrat hell. No fooling. My buddy works in Austin but lives in Temple. When he is driving in and back, he has a .45 on him and a pump gun nearby. He is always carrying while in town.
Austin used to be a weird funky hippy town.
Not anymore.
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