not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours agoTexas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to communitywww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up1274arrow-down11
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minus-squarereddig33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·17 hours agoI’m sure governor Abbott will find a way to overrule this. He’ll probably use his “police budgets can only go up!” law or something. https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/texas-legislature-responds-to-austin-police-budget-cuts-set-to-punish-cities-that-defund-police/
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoOh stop. Democrats leapt on the “omg they want to abolish all police forever!” Bandwagon as soon as they noticed an opportunity to abandon BLM.
minus-squarechiliedogg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 hours agoThey replaced the city police with county police. The county will probably need to hire a few more officers. And what do you know - 5 people were just freed up in Henderson!
I’m sure governor Abbott will find a way to overrule this. He’ll probably use his “police budgets can only go up!” law or something.
https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/texas-legislature-responds-to-austin-police-budget-cuts-set-to-punish-cities-that-defund-police/
Oh stop.
Democrats leapt on the “omg they want to abolish all police forever!” Bandwagon as soon as they noticed an opportunity to abandon BLM.
They replaced the city police with county police. The county will probably need to hire a few more officers. And what do you know - 5 people were just freed up in Henderson!