Posted on 12/10/2023 8:33:04 AM PST by Libloather
A progressive district attorney in Austin, Texas dropped indictments against 17 police officers involved in quelling Black Lives Matter riots in 2020 in a move Austin cops past and present tell Fox News Digital was a political smear from the beginning by a top prosecutor determined to demonize police regardless of the effect on the lives of law enforcement.
Travis County District Attorney José Garza announced Monday his office dismissed 17 indictments against police officers after a grand jury indicted 19 of them in February 2022 on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after non-lethal rounds were fired into the crowd.
"Our community is safer when our community trusts enforcement. When it believes law enforcement follows that law and protects the people who live here," Garza said at the time. "There cannot be trust if there is no accountability when law enforcement breaks the law."
The indictments were filed despite the officers being exonerated of wrongdoing by the Austin Police Department and critics of Garza, who is backed by liberal mega donor George Soros, pointed to his campaign promises to prosecute police officers and progressive ideology accusing him of launching a "war on cops."
"This has nothing to do with justice, has nothing do with any wrongdoing," Austin Police officer Justin Berry, one of the indicted officers who had his charges dropped last week, told Fox News Digital in 2022. "This is simply about politics and a political agenda that has taken place with these radical liberal district attorneys."
Dennis Farris, president of the Austin Police Retired Officers Association, told Fox News Digital it’s "stupid to think that those officers went out there with the idea that they were going to hurt people."
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Trump should make every effort to weed out these Soros backed DA’s from every place they exist.
Well he could sick the FBI Civil Rights Division on them but they are already playing for the Team Soros.
What am I missing here?
“We don’t think they had really any interest in seeing them through.”
Conspiracy to deny civil rights indeed.
Same here. The cops were cleared. Where’s the rub?
Years of indictments hanging over their heads? I will admit the article makes it hard to figure out what the reader is supposed to be angry about.
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