The U.S. Justice Department refused the City of Austin’s request to do an overview check on the Austin Police Department in Sept. 2013, due to their concerns saying Austin had the ability to check and monitor their own police department. However, because of shootings of unarmed subjects and the recent Grand Jury decision, to no bill citizen activist (now) - Antonio Buehler, of ‘Harrassing a police officer - 3rd degree felony with an automatic 2 years in jail minimum’, after it was shown on video that he did not spit on a police officer; as the officer stated, and who left his original suspect he was violently arresting - a female woman in high heels, stockings and a dress that he had dragged from a car onto her knees for calling out to her friend, not to take any DUI tests; it has never been shown that the grand jury, or the City of Austin, has the means and apparatus to address and correct blatant police misconduct. The City of Austin, nor the Austin Police Department, did not even apologize to Mr. Buehler. And the officer was never charged, as he was also no billed. (You can’t have it both ways) Another example of police overreaction, that shows a continuing pattern with lack of control and no overcite by anyone in charge, is the recent shooting towards a citizen, who was stopped in broad daylight by a police car and exited his vehicle, while retrieving his wallet to show the officer. The officer said he thought the citizen was retrieving a weapon, when it is clearly shown in the daylight video from the police car that it was not a weapon. Officer Justin Boehm was no billed by the Grand Jury of any charges for shooting at James Barton. Ironically, a case in Williamson County had a reverse situation where a citizen, who was also a lawyer, was accused of shooting at a census worker who had come on her private wooded property, peering thru bushes to get the address. The lawyer was convicted of aggravated assault. Even though no one was injured, she was sentenced to 3 years in prison. If we wanted to try and be fair, the officer could at least have been suspended for 30 days to highlight, correct and draw attention to police overreaction. Broad daylight. Anyone can see there was no weapon being drawn and the person stopped, was not acting aggressively. As for the lawyer, the sentence was so off the charts due to the incident itself and the lack of an injury. Although we don’t have to worry about Williamson County here in Travis County yet, we don’t have to follow lunacy either. Stand behind Jim Harrington, as he speaks up on Austin’s issues, and asks why the grand jury is being manipulated and the Police Department is not being reprimanded when it should be.
Posted on: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 21:32:56 +0000
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