Austin Sanders @daustinsanders Twitter profile

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

1 year

Austin police officers arrested a deaf, elderly woman at ABIA for trespassing, but she just misunderstood instructions from a ticket clerk. Because she’s elderly and deaf. She spent 3 nights in the Travis County Jail, where a jailer broke her arm. She wasn’t taken to the ER.

Austin Chronicle

@AustinChronicle

1 year

Austin jailer breaks elderly deaf woman’s arm after misunderstanding at airport.

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@daustinsanders

3 months

NEW: Travis County Attorney Delia Garza says as of now, her office has been presented with 46 criminal trespass arrests stemming from the protests at UT yesterday. The court has declined all of those cases for lack of probable cause and released the individuals from jail.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

NEW: Austin firefighters have voted to oppose Prop A, which would require the city to immediately hire somewhere around 500 new police officers, which would impact the budgets of other city departments, especially Austin Fire.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

1 year

So many failures here. Why did the ticket clerk call the cops? Why did officers arrest her? Why did jail staff use so much force on an old woman that it broke her arm? Why have the city and county abandoned a policy that could have prevented the jailing in the first place?

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

1 year

This is just atrocious.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

1 year

Just to clarify here, it was a corrections officer at the Travis County Jail that broke McGee's arm, not an Austin police officer. That said, we should ask why APD officers arrested a deaf elderly woman, alone and fearful in a confusing situation, rather than helping her.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

1 year

I've been reporting a separate story related to police training and I have been thinking a lot about this paragraph included in a consultant report about how police department's can improve cadet training.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

2 years

of course the first week of preschool ended with an early closure because so many faculty and students tested positive for COVID. Beginning a new school year any other way would simply be unamerican.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

Workers at pizza shop Via 313 are holding a protest tomorrow at the location on the drag, alleging that upper management suspended 4 employees after a petition signed by 46 workers was delivered asking for paid sick time, hazard pay, and COVID protocols. Protest is at noon.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 months

UPDATE: The remaining 11 cases have been dismissed by the County Attorney for lack of probable cause. Now, all 57 protesters arrested Wednesday are cleared. 46 of the arrests were rejected by judges (the majority by a criminal court judge) and 11 were dismissed by prosecutors.

Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 months

As of this morning, 11 protesters have charges pending against them. All for criminal trespass — the same charges that judges rejected in 46 other arrests. The County Attorney's office tells me they're looking into the 11 remaining cases to determine if they should be dismissed.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

29 days

BREAKING: A Travis County Judge has dismissed the lawsuit Texas A.G. Ken Paxton filed against the City of Austin over its voter-initiated ordinance effectively decriminalizing the possession of marijuana. The ordinance remains in effect.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

2 years

Austin City Council votes unanimously to adopt four measures aimed at protecting abortion access in Austin, including a resolution directing the Austin Police Department to adopt policies prohibiting them from investigating crimes associated with reproductive care.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

EARLY VOTE RESULTS: Prop A is imploding in Travis County, where the bulk of Austin voters live.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

2 years

BREAKING: Austin City Council approves $8 million and $2 million settlements in the lawsuits filed by Justin Howell and Anthony Evans, respectively, over grievous injuries they suffered at the hands of Austin police officers during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 months

Defense attorneys raised concerns with the probable cause affidavits submitted by UT police officers yesterday, as seen here. "We reviewed each case individually and agreed there were deficiencies," Garza told me. The court affirmed and declined the cases.

Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 months

I received five probable cause affidavits submitted by University of Texas police officers after they arrested protestors today. They all look like this: arrest for criminal trespass, "was given dispersal order and refused to do so." Arrested person's name redacted.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

Incredible sequence of events here. Shooting in West Campus last night, which the Austin Police Association falsely claimed took 50 minutes for officers to respond to, so the Austin Police Department issues a statement today, through UT Police, correcting the record.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

2 years

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is a YIMBY. "Yes In My Backyard? Yes, absolutely," she responded enthusiastically to my question during our sit-down interview earlier today. I asked how the federal government can help cities, like Austin, tackle housing supply problems. More soon...

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

1 year

The deal Mayor Kirk Watson worked out with Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov Dan Patrick appears to not have involved City Council. Certainly Council didn't vote on it and several Council Members learned of it 15 minutes before Watson announced it publicly.

Mayor OK's Deal to Have State Troopers Patrol Austin Streets

And they don’t have to play by our city’s rules

www.austinchronicle.com

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

4 years

Here it is: Travis County's incumbent District Attorney Margaret Moore concedes the race. Josè Garza will (almost certainly) be Travis County's next DA.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

JUST IN: @AOC -assisted fundraising helped generate $798,290 from 98,375 donors for @atxecho . A spokesperson says that is 15x what ECHO raised from individual donations in all of 2020. Full release below

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

4 years

Today D.A.-elect José Garza announced Trudy Strassburger will serve as his first assistant. That means Travis County’s D.A. Office will be led by two attorneys who have spent their careers in public defense and reform advocacy. via @austinchronicle

D.A.-Elect José Garza Taps Reform Advocates for His Team

It's a new day in court for Austin's top law enforcement office

www.austinchronicle.com

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 months

I received five probable cause affidavits submitted by University of Texas police officers after they arrested protestors today. They all look like this: arrest for criminal trespass, "was given dispersal order and refused to do so." Arrested person's name redacted.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

2 years

Is there a legitimate reason for why we don’t install toilets at every public park or is it just so homeless people will have fewer bathrooms to use

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

2 months

NEW: Bradley Hargis, executive director of the Capital Area Defenders Service, says UT police does not intend to turn in arrest affidavits for people arrested at the protest until tomorrow morning at the earliest. As a result, people will remain in jail longer.

Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

2 months

I am back at the jail tonight where another crowd is forming in support of demonstrators arrested at the University of Texas campus today.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

2 years

It is increasingly hard to dispute what transpired this week: law enforcement tried to run the usual playbook — lie and obfuscate about police action during a critical incident — but the intense scrutiny that followed the massacre of 19 children has made that impossible.

Sergio Martínez-Beltrán

@SergioMarBel

2 years

Abbott responds to question about why he gave bad info : "I was misled. I am livid about what happened. I was on this very stage two days ago, and I was telling the public information that had been told to me in a room, just a few yards behind where we're located right now."

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

1 year

Wow. In San Antonio, three cops gunned down Melissa Perez, who was believed to be undergoing a mental health crisis. THREE HOURS later, the cops were arrested, charged with murder, and later that night the Chief was on TV apologizing for the killing.

San Antonio Express-News

@ExpressNews

1 year

Three SAPD officers shot Melissa Perez to death during a confrontation at her apartment. In a stunning turn, all three were charged with murder.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

2 years

With renewed attention on Elon Musk's hyperloop grift, let me share excerpts from a public information request I received following the trip Austin Development Services staff took to Las Vegas in April where they met with Boring Company. Clark Couty, and the LV Convention Center.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 months

I am told that two city magistrate judges and a criminal court judge worked early into the morning to process the arrests. Some protestors were released on PR bond, but many more had their cases declined outright by one of the judges.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 months

"We will continue to individually review all cases presented to our office to make determinations on whether prosecution is factually and legally appropriate," Garza said.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

Hearing that Austin Police Officers are hanging out at the Save Austin Now party in uniform. This kind of thing is prohibited by APD's General Orders, but still happens pretty regularly. Meanwhile, EMS medics were told they couldn't even vote while on duty.

Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

Where is the Save Austin Now watch party?

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

2 years

BREAKING: A judge has denied APD officer Christopher Taylor's qualified immunity claim in the civil lawsuit brought against him and the City of Austin following Taylor's fatal shooting of Mike Ramos in 2020. The dismissal clears a major hurdle in the quest for justice in the case

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 months

NEW: Travis County Attorney Delia Garza issued the following statement about the protest arrests today. Her office handles misdemeanor offenses, so whether or not the people arrested for criminal trespass (a misdemeanor) will be charged is in her hands.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

1 year

Translation: an off-duty sheriff's deputy had some road rage on the highway and shot at a guy.

KVUE News

@KVUE

1 year

UPDATE: @Austin_Police said an off-duty @TravisCoSheriff 's deputy was "involved in an altercation in his personal vehicle with another driver while traveling south" on South I-35 proper and "a weapon or weapons were discharged" during the incident

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

2 years

NEW: Five months after the Austin EMS Association submitted a pay proposal asking for a $7/hr base wage increase for medics, the city has responded with a counter offer. City management's proposal? A net wage increase of $1.17 over 4 years. Year 1 would be a 14 cent raise.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

10 months

BREAKING: Texas A.G. says the City of Austin must turn over police records they intended to keep secret in response to a public information request I filed in June. It's a monumental decision made possible by the Austin Police Oversight Act.

City Must Give Secret Police Records to the Chronicle, Texas A.G.’s Office Says

City’s “G File” no longer exists

www.austinchronicle.com

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

2 months

whats the point of even having a criminal justice system when a proud white supremacist who openly fantasized about killing black lives matter supporters is convicted of muder for doing just that, but then is pardoned a year later because the governor went on TV to demand it.

Greg Abbott

@GregAbbott_TX

2 months

My statement regarding the pardon of Sgt. Daniel Perry.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 months

I am outside the Travis county jail where a group of family members, attorneys, and advocates are working to learn more about how many people were arrested during the protest at UT and what they are being charged with.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 months

It is unclear how many people remain in jail, but this morning the sheriff's office told me that 57 people were booked into the jail for protest-related arrests.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

Austin firefighter Association prez Bob Nicks takes Matt Mackowiak to task for trying to “manipulate” the association voting process. “It seems the truth is secondary to Save Austin Now,” Nicks says.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

At this KVUE Prop A debate, Matt Mackowiak keeps repeating the lie that austin is less safe than it’s ever been. Dont be deceived. The truth is that Austin is both safer than it has been in the past and safer than other big cities are today.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

Austin area rideshare drivers have formed the first Texas-based chapter of the Rideshare Drivers Union, founded in LA to oppose California's Prop 22. Local rideshare drivers will join RDU's nationwide strike tomorrow, July 21, and are encouraging all drivers & passengers to join

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

Still thinking about this incredible photo Neena took today. On the right, a police officer twice indicted for murder in one year, for fatal shootings that occurred 10 months apart. On the left, his union boss. It says so much about the politics of police accountability.

Neena Satija

@neenareports

3 years

. @Austin_Police officer Christopher Taylor, right, and Austin Police Association prez @KennethCasaday at the courthouse as news breaks of Taylor’s 2nd murder indictment this year under new DA @JosePGarza

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

1 year

My head is spinning reading this from Chief Chacon. Yesterday, he cleared two of his officers who shot at a car with a baby inside of it, killing the baby's father. Today, APD released video from an incident two weeks ago where officers shot and killed a young black men.

Austin Police Department

@Austin_Police

1 year

Chief Chacon Statement Regarding the Death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, TN

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

Minutes after Save Austin Now announced they submitted signatures for their ballot initiative that would force the city to fund ~500 new police officers at a cost of at least $50 million, 25 community groups announce their opposition to the initiative.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

YIMBYism in the Star Wars: Clone Wars cartoon.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

1 year

This guy openly advocating for increased surveillance and incarceration of Black people is a visiting scholar at the University of Texas' Salem Center for Policy, some kind of think tank housed in the university's business school.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

1 year

NEW: A campaign finance filing from Voters for Police Oversight and Accountability shows the Austin Police Association fully funded a petition campaign that relied on deceptive tactics to gather signatures in support of weakened police oversight in Austin.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

NEW: After initially staying out of the Prop A fight, @AustinEMSAssoc is now OPPOSING the ballot measure. EMSA joins the Austin Firefighters Association in opposing Prop A, meaning both public safety labor groups are throwing their weight against the ordinance.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

11 months

One of the more perplexing things about the texas tribune layoffs is why, just four months after readers saved the Texas Observer from a board resigned to let it die, trib leaders didn’t order a massive, public fundraising effort to prevent the layoffs.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

2 years

Probably the biggest consequence of last night's Council elections is that the caucus of diehard supply side skeptics has been reduced to two. There's now a veto-proof majority for a broader, more rapid approach to increasing the housing supply in Austin.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

Sharing a FB post from Marina Roberts, a local organizer who was active in both the May Prop B and November Prop A elections. Interesting insights into what made the difference last night compared to in May.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

2 years

sometimes I'll think man I wish andre 3k would go back into the studio to record a full album, but then I see he's doing things like this instead which must bring him joy and fulfillment and realize it's great. he's already given so much and doesn't owe us another album.

Pigeons & Planes

@PigsAndPlans

2 years

André 3000 will make multiple appearances playing the flute on the original soundtrack for upcoming A24 movie 'Everything Everywhere All at Once,' alongside Mitski, David Byrne, Moses Sumney, and more.

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Austin Sanders

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2 months

NEW: I have obtained some of the affidavits filed by police officers who arrested demonstrators at the pro-Palestine protest on the University of Texas campus yesterday They are much more detailed than last week's affidavits & are more likely to be accepted by prosecutors/judges

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

2 years

my big idea for attracting people to work in an extremely overworked and underpaid field in one of the most expensive cities in the country? Give them a single free pass to the city's big, cold pool as a signing bonus.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

6 months

Giving Art Acevedo a $270,000 job to oversee a single department is baffling. The timing is also galling. The city was set to apologize to survivors of sexual assault next week for the myriad ways in which the Austin Police Department failed survivors under Acevedo's leadership.

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Austin Sanders

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4 months

A lot of Election Day misinformation swirling around out there about crime in Austin. To clear things up: police data shows violent and property crime rates have steadily decreased in Austin since 2020. These are easily verifiable facts.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

hmm this austin university business is the most troubling development in the ongoing "your name is what and you live where" saga that is my life...i will be exploring my legal options

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

1 year

Mayor Kirk Watson collaborated with Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov Dan Patrick over three days on an agreement that will allow Texas DPS troopers to patrol the City of Austin for an indefinite period of time. How many state cops will be deployed and where are still being worked out

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

2 years

"Every part of this city"

Tony Plohetski

@tplohetski

2 years

NEW: In victory speech, Kirk Watson said, "It means a lot to me to know that Austinites in every part of this city still want the leadership I have tried to deliver."

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Austin Sanders

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2 years

It's been miserable news week in Texas, but a bit of positive news today: union organizers at Integral Care, the largest mental healthcare provider in Travis County, expect the agency's board to authorize the union tonight after a yearlong push by organizers to make it happen.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

I'm taking down the version of this tweet that has Mackowiak's number in it, because he called to tell me he deleted the FB post. But I'm posting a censored version to preserve for the record that he is, in fact, an asshole.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

keepin' austin weird @WholeFoods

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

2 years

NEW: Austin City Council approves a $2.95 million settlement with Brad Levi Ayala, the 16-year-old shot in the head with a lead-pellet round by an Austin police officer during the May 2020 protests. The vote was unanimous, with Council Member Kelly abstaining.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

5 years

@jbouie Bro anyone saying torchy’s or taco deli should be blocked. Taco deli is better, but both are marginal in a city with a growing immigrant population. They are gentrified tacos. Look for little tiendas in gas stations and trucks near where you’re staying. That’s the good shit

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Austin Sanders

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1 year

There is no context in any of these tweets lol, my bad. Austin's police union has just badly lost an election that sets the stage for local leaders to install the strongest police oversight system in the nation. The long read version:

Understanding Prop A & B and the Policing Paradigm Shift on the Ballot

May vote could revolutionize civilian oversight

www.austinchronicle.com

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 months

Julian says his bearded dragon is safe. He handed it off to his friend at the protest once he was arrested.

Mikala Compton 🦇

@MikalaCompton

3 months

Unique moment from yesterday's pro-Palestinian protest at UT yesterday — campus police did not know what to do with his iguana when Julian Reyes got arrested.

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Austin Sanders

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2 years

Workers Defense Project plans to refer a case to the Department of Labor and to file a complaint with OSHA against Tesla outlining allegations of wage theft and workplace injuries at the Gigafactory in Southeast Travis County.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

10 months

EXCLUSIVE: In four months, two longtime associates of Mayor Kirk Watson and Interim City Manager Jesús Garza were paid nearly $150,000 for vaguely defined consulting services, without authorization from City Council.

Consultants Given Lucrative City Contracts Without Council Approval

City paid friends of City Hall top brass $300,000 through subcontracting scheme

www.austinchronicle.com

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

2 years

On the left, Kirk Watson's electoral victory map in the Austin mayoral run-off. Watson won the precincts in purple. On the right, Austin's zoning map. The yellow areas represent places where it is illegal to build apartments.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

2 years

19 indictments. $10 million in settlements. Two young men permanently marred by police violence. Me & @BrantBingamon on the news that's rocked the Austin Police Department and city at large over the past 24 hours, with reaction from an 8th Street Survivor

D.A. Indicts 19 Austin Police for Assault in 2020 BLM Protest Response

Charges for 8th St. shootings send shockwaves among law enforcement

www.austinchronicle.com

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

Final round of Election Day results have posted. Prop A defeated by an astounding 37% margin, or 56,000+ votes. Brutal result for Save Austin Now.

Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

EARLY VOTE RESULTS: Prop A is imploding in Travis County, where the bulk of Austin voters live.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

2 years

all of these headlines are about taxpayer-funded spending, but only one identifies the spending as "taxpayer money." Probably nothing, just balanced journalism.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

2 years

this is crazy man. armed branch of the state deployed to defend a branch of the judiciary, appointed by a minoritarian segment of the populace, because the judiciary overturned a broadly popular law.

Manu Raju

@mkraju

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On way to the court

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Austin Sanders

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3 years

BREAKING: Travis County’s top prosecutors allege that “rogue” Austin Police officers are declining to investigate suspected criminal activity based on false characterizations of reform-minded policies implemented by the District & County Attorneys. 1/x

Is APD Making Austin Less Safe?

D.A., C.A. claim they’re being scapegoated by anti-reform cops

www.austinchronicle.com

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

1 year

seen on reddit: Jennifer Virden is fundraising to pay off campaign debt. During the City Council and Mayor campaigns she ran and lost, she loaned herself a total of $350k. She also owns six properties in Travis County with a combined appraised value of $2.95 million.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

in this week's @AustinChronicle , you'll find a simple chart that shows the homicide rate in Austin is much lower now compared to 30 years ago, despite what some in politics and the media want you to believe.

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Austin Sanders

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3 years

~personal news~ time You won't see my byline in the pages of the Chronicle for a few weeks, because I'll be home parenting this little one. Penny was born — no foolin' — April 1 and is healthy and lovely. Thanks to @leticiawesome for carrying and delivering our little girl 🥺

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Austin Sanders

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1 year

City Council will ask City Manager Spencer Cronk to resign. The decision comes after Cronk successfully undermined the will of Council on police contract negotiations, which followed a week of intense criticism over his response to the ice storm.

Sources: City Manager Spencer Cronk Will Be Asked to Resign

Brazen police-contract gambit follows ice-storm SNAFUs

www.austinchronicle.com

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

Enjoyed some breakfast tacos this morning from one of the four gas station/truck joints in my North Austin neighborhood where the owners speak Spanish as their first language. You, too, could have this experience in Austin if you go to places besides torchys or taco deli.

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Austin Sanders

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2 years

the mythology around law enforcement in america has become so powerful that it allows the "thin blue line" ethos to co-exist with "an officer's first duty is to come home from every shift." But these two ideas are so fundamentally at odds that they can't be reconciled.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

An unauthorized Best of Austin sticker found at the boardwalk lol. Who will claim credit for this creation?

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

Made it out to Via 313 where a fairly sizable crowd showed up to support workers protesting what they describe as unsafe working conditions inside the business.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

4 years

guys I really cannot understate how stunning these DA results are. Margaret Moore is the very embodiment of the criminal justice establishment. José Garza ran an insurgent campaign on a unabashedly progressive platform of transformative justice reform.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

been a real weird day to oscillate between Twitter and Facebook. My fb feed has had a lot of "snow day!! fun!!!!" energy while Twitter has been like "once again our institutions have failed us, we will die because of state negligence."

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

1 year

I could be wrong, but I think Chito Vela just became the first Council Member to publicly say that Austin needs a new City Manager. Wow.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

Here's an eye-popping chart from a presentation given by the Austin Board of Realtors at Council's Housing and Planning committee. Over the last decade, the median household income in Austin grew 38%, but median home prices grew 138%.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

1 year

well then

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

2 years

Austin's Police Chief fired a cop last week for helping the suspect in a domestic violence assault call evade arrest. The cop wrote the suspect a note indicating that if he went inside, he couldn't be arrested. So, that's what the suspect did.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

1 year

What I am gathering from early review of the street racing stuff this weekend is that Austin Police officers responded to four different incidents involving rowdy, confrontational crowds of young people and...didn't send anyone to the hospital with life-threatening injuries?

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

1 year

The Texas Legislature is trying to shield police officers who shoot people with lead pellet rounds from criminal prosecution — including the officers already under indictment in Travis County who are awaiting trial. From @BrantBingamon

Shoot First, Create a Law to Make It Legal Later

Texas bill ensures zero consequences for police who injure people with "less lethal" rounds

www.austinchronicle.com

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@daustinsanders

1 year

NEW: Watson and Garza have pulledl the plug on APD's controversial DPS partnership. It only took troopers shooting two people, one fatally, and pulling a gun on a child to get them there.

DPS Partnership Suspended 10 Days After Restarting

Mayor cites “recent events” for abrupt decision

www.austinchronicle.com

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@daustinsanders

3 years

NEW: Julie Oliver and Mike Siegel’s group Ground Game Texas will collect signatures to place 2 measures on the Nov. '21 ballot: - decriminalize low-level pot possession - ban no-knock police raids. They need 20k signatures in 180 days. They're aiming for 25k signatures.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

2 years

the andrew tate/greta thunberg episode demonstrates the unique power of twitter that no other social media platform has been able to replicate. she made him so mad with a quote tweet that he went and got himself arrested. incredible

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

3 years

I haven’t decided it 2021 was on the whole a good or bad year, but one unequivocal bright spot: being able to write about Save Austin Now’s “humiliating loss” or “embarrassing defeat” in the context of november 21’s Prop A. That’s forever, folks.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

1 year

BREAKING: City Council votes 10-1 to fire City Manager Spencer Cronk, effective tomorrow. Former City Manager Jesús Garza will be appointed as Interim City Manager on the same day. Council Member Natasha Harper-Madison was the only no vote.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

1 year

If I ever end up in a wish granting situation, like with a genie, one will be to put me in the room with Greg Abbott when he learned the convicted murderer he rushed to pardon proudly posted about being a racist, googled chat rooms to meet young girls & degrees or murder charges.

Sawyer Hackett

@SawyerHackett

1 year

A normal night for Daniel Perry, just googling “good chats to meet young girls” followed by “degrees of murder charges” and “attack on Jews in Texas.”

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The way crime data is presented in this story is so egregiously misleading it's practically journalistic malpractice. The FBI data actually shows that Austin has lower violent and property crime rates than Houston, Dallas and San Antonio.

Joe Nocera

@opinion_joe

4 months

Tomorrow, the voters of Austin, Texas will decide whether they've had enough of a "progressive prosecutor" who doesn't like to put criminals in jail. This election will be overshadowed by Super Tuesday, but it's an important bellweather. My story for TFP:

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Austin Sanders

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2 years

NEW: Via 313 workers are unionizing. Today, employees at the E. 6th, Oak Hill, and North Campus stores filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board. They are organizing with the newly formed Restaurant Workers United.

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@daustinsanders

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Travis County early vote results in the Democratic primary have posted. Incumbent District Attorney José Garza has a commanding 30 point lead over challenger Jeremy Sylestine with 49,000 votes counted.

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Austin Sanders

@daustinsanders

4 years

<Elon Musk squeezing $50 million in tax breaks out of a school district with an $112 million operating budget and 84% of students economically disadvantaged> Actually, government support is very bad for the people.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

4 years

Another government stimulus package is not in the best interests of the people imo

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