Posted on 02/18/2022 5:37:55 AM PST by buckalfa
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas grand jury indicted 19 Austin police officers on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for their actions during 2020 protests over racial injustice that spread nationwide following the killing of George Floyd, according to people familiar with the matter.
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This is totally F’ed up!
Good luck to Austin with ever hiring police officers. Good luck getting the current ones, marking time until retirement, to ever respond to a riot again.
The moral of the story is that if it is a liberal city, then the cops should stand down and watch it burn. Is there any other lesson here?
Off to Florida or South Dakota the younger ones will go
That’s the difference between state sanctioned protests and non state sanctioned protests.
Sorry about that officers but that’s what happens when you serve a communist government.
They’ll be able to hire LEO’s but they will all be corrupt. They’ll have a rap sheet and gang connections
In Florida public employee pension rights are portable.
Sounds like Haiti.
Eventually no one’s going to apply to be a cop, at vigilantism will rise.
Maybe I’ll move to Tombstone…
If it is a liberal city, then cops can murder conservative protesters with impunity, even if they are doing nothing more than trespassing in a public building.
Rioting, arson and looting by liberal protesters are peaceful protests. Peaceful protests by conservatives are insurrections.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
It sounds like liberal cities have feral grand juries. Policing ferals is a job for animal control.
Sorry about that officers but that’s what happens when you serve a communist government.
Exactly right. Things have changed. You can feel bad for these guys if you want, but know that they’re the same guys that will drag you out of a school board meeting for expressing wrongthink.
I don’t care what happens to them. There was a time that I would have,not too long ago. But as I said, things have changed.
I wonder how they will fare with a population of homeless, druggies, college professors and trust fund brats.
Many are simply moving to conservative small towns outside of the democrat controlled cities. In rural counties that have not elected a democrat to public office in the past 20 years, there are a dozen applicants whenever there is an open police job.
That is why wealthy liberals want to import an endless supply of illegal aliens, cheap labor to do their yard work, clean their houses and take care of their kids.
The officers were indicted for causing injury by firing city approved bean bag rounds at noncomplying protestors.
Local clinics and hospitals reported injuries to protestors from age 16 to 61.
A 16 y.o. at a violent protest? Not only in Canada.
Two of the injured received cash settlements from the city for injuries.
And the DA continues to grandstand at every opportunity.
So how many BLM and Antifa scum bags were indicted? Sounds like TX. is the new CA.
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