Dad|Texan|City boy|Redneck penchants|"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It's hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition"-Saul Alinksy
Last night a tall white homeless man chased my friend w/machete at Robert E Lee (I still call it that) and BSprings while he was in his car. He and the driver behind him had to uturn on RLee and fled in fear. Is this guy out already?
Seth Gott survived an attack by a man with a machete in Austin. Doctors have reattached his hand but more surgeries are coming. I’ll have his interview today at 5
Austin is lost. Memories growing up here are mine to keep like so many videos played back in my mind. They’ll never touch the great state of Texas, though, and come Nov the NATION will be ours again. Enjoy your victory.
@SaltyGoat17
For those that don't know this guy was a survivor of the group of contractors in Libya that the movie "13 Hours: Secret Soldiers of Benghazi" was based on. I'd say he's got some experience dealing with these types.
@ZoForAustin
There’s zero justification for the man to run from DPS to get closer to home and tell his child to run inside. He put lives at risk for evading and used his son as a shield. This man fails as a father and you fail as a CM. You really should give medical school another shot son.
@DocumentingATX
F'n hell. 6mo to "clean" but how long will the environmental impact be?
WHERE
ARE the
ENVIRONMENTALISTS?
I was born here and argue we've never seen an impact of this level to our greenspaces. Thank you for the work your team does to bring this to light.
@DocumentingATX
@HCCHereForever
never mention this endemic on land they committed to protect for future generations to enjoy.The Board of Directors should be fired. "Embrace the human feces and garbage...it's a gateway to SF/Portland if you can't afford the airfare!" Embrace the unknown! Uhuh!
@VanessaForATX
You mean diverse forms of housing like this? "Gone are the days where we put our heads in the sand and ignore the growth of our City". "...removing barriers to newer, more diverse forms of housing". You have ZERO background in real estate. You're touting party bullet points.
@statesman
Because
@austintexasgov
and city council has nurtured an environment that is conducive for all elements to actually thrive and continue open air drug use in the city and green spaces
@DocumentingATX
For those that remember, this has similar patterns (ironically, random victims) to the DC shooter (except,today,suspect wasn’t trying to hide and openly fired on people). How is this not a mass shooting?
@MBullockATX
Why don’t they send a social worker to talk with potestors about their feelings. It’s like they want an officer with a badge/gun but the rest of Austin should just get a social worker
@EliteShigeo
@DocumentingATX
@EliteShigeo
sit this one out homie. Every sentence of your response makes it clear you don't know what you're talking about. Your stance on homeless is clear but you're way off. Go back to Reddit
@CMZoQadri
What's your statement on this far more brutal attack at random in public during the day (which more people should be concerned about & not just the Muslim community). A pocket knife wasn't used and no one squared up to fight. It was a surprise attack.
Seth Gott survived an attack by a man with a machete in Austin. Doctors have reattached his hand but more surgeries are coming. I’ll have his interview today at 5
@johnnyk20001
The way i'm reading this is that the "partnership" has ended meaning COA just cut off any opportunity to work together. It does NOT say DPS will not patrol Austin any longer. They can be wherever they want to be.
@Austin_Police
A weapon is likely used and threat of violence in these crimes and you’re instructing people to call 311 after they’ve had probably the most traumatic experience of their life?
@jenna_hnz
Haha “businesses” 🤣 like you and
@ZoForAustin
are SO pro business. You literally promoted to put a local company out of business last week. Yet here you are all “pro business”.
Situation last night in Barton Hills was a white female resident that got assaulted in the back of the head by a black male w/hoodie while walking through the neighborhood 8pm. My people kick it down there. It is a new time now.
@DocumentingATX
@Cleo_Petricek
@NC2020Anthony
@johnnyk20001
I said last week status of the owners (and apparently the owners of adjacent properties) needs to be investigated at all the recent large structure fires lately. We're not even into dry season and buildings seem to just magically combust 'round here
@johnnyk20001
Lotta “vacant” structure fires lately. It’d be interesting to know about the financial status, ownership and history of these bldgs & what kind of claims are made.
@jenna_hnz
Public safety=yes. Whatever happened to leaving people alone to raise their family and staying out of their business? Not a fan of your cradle-to-grave mentality.
I've never taken a Mental Health First Aid training to tell you this guy is experiencing a mental health crisis. The question is what is
@VanessaForATX
@austintexasgov
gonna do about it?
@DocumentingATX
@princess_antifa
You're basically giving out meals so they can get to the next drug/alchohol induced day. You're not solving or helping the problem you're just virtue signaling and you know it. "Hunger" is so 80s.
@APROA01
@GregCasar
You can “ask” and as a “courtesy” the agency can coordinate based on staffing/call volume whether or not to do it. My bet is thy said “sure, we’ll get right on that (wink wink)”
@RepCasar
@AdriPerezTX
@TFN
Serious question: if Trans is as prevalent as you'd have us think, whey do Trans people only live in Austin? I've yet to see any protests/speaking out from Trans in Midland, Tx or Lubbock or Corpus Christi or Tyler. Why is that?
@VanessaForATX
Umm...that's how pardons work. Tx Constitution grants Gov the power based on recommendation (which they had) of Board of Pardons & Paroles. Everything above board but big mad because they don't have your extreme beliefs? YOU, ma'am, are the disappointment.
@Farris_Actual
Chief Gross must be heartbroken. In his day it was landlines from within APD HQ. CTECC (911) is a state of the art world class facility (LEEDS).If former Chief had to do this imagine what YOU'll need to do when you need APD.Prepare.
@AmandaRuizFOX7
@fox7austin
@AmandaRuizFOX7
just takin Ls all week. Your bias is astounding in headline. "Despite CC decision DPS will cont to patrol Austin as they are the State Police of the entire state of Tx".
@Farris_Actual
Parallels with Energy Security:we have resources in our own backyard to solve US/World energy issues.Untie our hands behind our back.We have the men/women ready to serve APD & City of Austin. But THEY won't let them.Create problem>provide the solution...Liberal politics 101.
@cityjane
Flaw with critical theory is it operates under the assumption that NW Austin “took” something and “took” too much of if said resource as if belonged to someone else. It rejects all Weatern ideals including family, capitalism so any argument is like talking to a crazy person
@zoforaustin
So your "biggest fear" was violence vs Muslims/Jews? Is your seat on CC just for Muslims and Jews? Why aren't you representing all Austinites? Why not the blacks who've mainly been victimized in numerous shootings at area game rooms? Why silent on all that till now?
@zoforaustin
You are a weak man. You are a weak leader. You should be speaking out against ALL CRIME (especially violent crime) committed against anyone in Austin. Why did you not speak (and post about it here) to the kid that almost lost his arm in a machete attack?
@cbsaustin
Here we go again. Did he have an improper relationship over the weekend or was he charged with it over the weekend? Who edits your headlines
@cbsaustin
? You guys want more pay?
@jenna_hnz
@JosePGarza
@tplohetski
Jenna, these facts were made public almost two years ago.
Maybe Council should allocate more time to keeping up with their ultimate responsibilities (budget) and less time to the perfomative drama y'all currently spin every week.
It's municipal government, not rocket science.
@Cleo_Petricek
1/2 This is it. time for choosing. Doesn't matter whether you're (R) or (D) or Ind. It's time to take back Austin. We can still have police reform AND strong support from the DA's office. Enough homeless,crime, street takeovers, camping, drugs, machetes, police abolitionists.
Where’s the statement from all council members who posted as if they invented railroad yesterday? You can’t take credit for something and then go silent when that very something fails miserably in execution
@zoforaustin
@PaigeForAustin
. That’s not leadership.
@DocumentingATX
@DocumentingATX
everyone he shot he knew (except the bicyclist). My big question is: what was he doing at Reagan (I still call it that)? What plan did the injured LEO there thwart? THAT is a scary thought.
@xurbanxcowboyx
Next up "people use too much energy", "cars/suv/trucks are too big...how big do you need?", "why do you need a gun?", "why do you need a safe full of guns?" Just say it. You think humans should live like we did 100-200yrs ago. You're anti-human flourishing.
@DocumentingATX
2/2 Odd Intelligence agencies associated with profile. 2 takeaways: 1. he had family violence record so should not have possessed guns period. No law would've stopped him. 2. Being a 2A guy, based on his history I would not want to have faced him in the street in a gun fight.
@DocumentingATX
@CoffmanDewey
He’s staking your neighborhood out to see how long police response is then will come up with a woe is me for the police (lost, homeless, friend left him etc). Look at the cops face he has to act concerned for HIM not you. They’ll give him a ride out but he will be back.
@Cleo_Petricek
2/2 REMEMBER: ...voting in a primary does not commit you to vote for a particular candidate in the general election. *You can vote for either party’s candidate in the November election*
@jenna_hnz
@JosePGarza
@tplohetski
Umm Jenna since your apparently new to town, you probably missed me and
@ErvinLawFirm
holding a press conference right after the riot indictments in '22.We told the world then about the flawed LL ammo. Everyone knew. The question you should be asking is why did Garza ignore facts
For those who are pretending this is the first time they heard about defective bean bag rounds and that it was known to management.
@CLEAT
Press release from April of 2022.
@charleywilkison
@safehorns
@cityofaustin
@UTAustin
1/2 UT freshmen let me introduce you to your City Council member representing you:
@ZoForAustin
. Was he on campus today greeting 1000s of you? No instead this is what he was concerned about today vs your introduction to the city at Rambler:
@Grits4Breakfast
@Jeremy4DA
@JosePGarza
So your wife prefers to have machete weilding mentally unstable drug addicts with priors walking next her and not a bunch a bikers savvy enough to understand a “ground game”? Got it. $100 both of you also get triggered by the American flag too.
@adampowellatx
You just had to play that card. I don’t care about your race or who you sleep with. But ok now that you brought it up, what in your platform is going to benefit the 7.5% of the black population in Austin? What are the issues they face? I’ll wait.
@ryan6351
@AutulloAAS
Never met an "urbanist" I liked. You know NOTHING about policing and never fired a firearm. Loser Meza ran/evaded police and used his son as a shield. LEOs drawing is protocol in what amounts to a felony stop. So in short...
Every Godamn headline in Austin this week have homeless as the root cause. They’ll tell you the exact $ amount CO2 costs us but not a peep (nor acknowledgement) how much the homeless cost
@austintexasgov
Woman arrested for trying to light fuel pumps on fire at SE Austin gas station. Samantha Camacho was seen placing a piece of flaming material on top of one of the pumps. A witness also said he saw her trying to use a lighter. Camacho was arrested.
Before Daniel Perry murdered a veteran in 2020, he told a friend he “might go to Dallas to shoot looters.”
A year before, he wrote, “to bad we can’t get paid for hunting Muslims.”
@GovAbbott
’s alliance with white nationalists is putting dangerous people on our streets.
@PaigeForAustin
@TxDOT
"Climate" is the best your husband could come up with? Where were you on the environment and climate when our greenspaces were destroyed with encampments you allow?
@Austin_Police
If you want support of Austin and the whole of Texas, for that matter, I urge you to change this statement in full accordance with the recent Supreme Court decision. It is a Time for Choosing.
@VanessaForATX
Or...you could just let the market decide.
Why stop there? How bout WiFi? We'll call it "Digital Justice".
Or all spaces must have DishTV due to "Channel Deserts" created in communities of color.
I stand in solidarity for this ✊
@DocumentingATX
1/2 He has a very interesting background if you go down that rabbit hole. Educated at private university. Extensive military (though some have pointed out inconsistencies), firearms range officer, Lic Insurance, CDL then a carwash.
@CenTexScanner
BREAKING:
@AmandaRuizFOX7
reports "DPS disrupts neighborhood late at nite with sirens. Community outraged at fear mongering". Witnesses state "we were supposed to have a birthday for my lil cousin and now my family is scared to show up because they don't like men w/cowboy hats"
@safehorns
@cityofaustin
@UTAustin
2/2 He talks endlessly about the "marginalized" but you guys just aren't "marginalized" enough I guess. Instead, he's focused on this:
@johnnyk20001
All other "media outlets" report a "stabbing" with a machete. Can someone tell me how you "stab" someone with a machete? I always thought of them as a "hacking" type weapon/tool myself. You don't "stab" your way through the jungle with a machete smh.
Agree w this but I would add that there is one very cheap way to get mode shift: take away space from cars and give it to bike/peds/buses. Mode shift isn’t all about light rail. If dozens of streets in Austin are given the Barton Springs treatment, there will be mode shift.
The CEO of CapMetro is apologizing after rail customers experienced service delays following Sat night's Austin FC match. The new McKalla Station in north ATX, located just yards from Q2 Stadium, took a year and a half and $60 million to complete
@johnnyk20001
We really need more common sense axe laws in this state. I mean, why did he have a weapon used by Native American's to slaughter settlers and how many did he have?
@johnnyk20001
Entire CC, mayor and most media outlets took the word of this gangbanger lying loser father. He smokes weed, has a stack of citations already and ran from police (i'm sure he has experience) while using his child as a shield. THIS is who City Council stands behind NOT you Austin