UPDATE: Chief Acevedo confirms the man is Hispanic. He said the family indicated he was suicidal, but the medical examiner will have to determine final cause of death. https://t.co/fdZwX8I1jO via @houstonchron
— Julian Gill (@JulianGillMusic) June 16, 2020
While Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo was publicly mourning the death of George Floyd, his officers were brutalizing protesters he had earlier thanked for demonstrating.
— Texas Observer (@TexasObserver) June 12, 2020
From @theappeal: https://t.co/bkc2BQoVgp
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo argued in front of a congressional panel today that cutting police budgets isn’t the answer to ending police brutality.https://t.co/E7zKFu91J0
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) June 11, 2020
#Houston#DefundThePolice #DefundHPD #WeAreWatching #BLMHTX #8toAbolition pic.twitter.com/fqCFbvCLq9
— Stevens Orozco (@_StevensOrozco) June 9, 2020
The Houston City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to approve a 2021 budget that includes a $20 million increase for the Houston Police Department – as hundreds of protesters demanding reforms outside City Hall could be heard inside the council chambers. https://t.co/TCoX5zqqJi
— Texas Standard (@TexasStandard) June 11, 2020
Houston needs to do better, we are failing to be a leader even within our own state. More accountability and transparency is not enough. https://t.co/yKg98UV1uX
— Alán M. de León (@deLeonHTX) June 11, 2020
Critics say Houston needs more robust civilian police oversight board https://t.co/nB7APs1AAn #hounews
— Matt Schwartz (@SchwartzChron) June 15, 2020
Police engaged Mr. Ambler in a high-speed pursuit for more than 20 minutes because they say he failed to dim the headlights of his SUV to oncoming traffic. https://t.co/LqYo6kqbqf
— Rebecca Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) June 12, 2020
Video captured by a reality TV production crew showing the death of Javier Ambler, a 40-year-old black man, while he was in police custody in Texas has reportedly been destroyed, according to local media.https://t.co/mSM1s6nAjg
— NPR (@NPR) June 11, 2020
Your department killed #JavierAmbler, filmed it for a reality TV show, then covered it up for 15 months.
— James Talarico (@jamestalarico) June 10, 2020
I’m not calling for your resignation because I’m a progressive.
I’m calling for your resignation because I’m a human being. https://t.co/GHqJ7reK54
The governor has been noticeably silent on Texas' own high-profile examples of police killings. https://t.co/Wbwqh51MbK
— San Antonio Current (@SAcurrent) June 11, 2020
Texas has the second-highest total number of killings by police officers in the U.S., and the third-highest number of killings of Black people.
— Progress Texas (@ProgressTX) June 15, 2020
We must fight for systematic change and hold law enforcement accountable! #BlackLivesMatterhttps://t.co/eWxSzNGGBQ
By the time the Legislature passed the original bill, most of the sweeping provisions related to policing had been stripped out. https://t.co/MA7tqSEtHd
— San Antonio Current (@SAcurrent) June 9, 2020
Even with calls from the Texas Legislative Black Caucus, Gov. Abbott declined to promise he would make police reform an emergency priority during the 2021 #txlege session. https://t.co/5boKRxa0tX
— Progress Texas (@ProgressTX) June 12, 2020
Want more justice and a better economy? How about imprisoning fewer people? Most agree we lock up too many for wrong reasons w/ @Grits4Breakfast @RightOnCrime @LowryLance https://t.co/h94lIxPnsL #txlege @HoustonChron
— ChrisTomlinson (@cltomlinson) June 12, 2020
This week, the Austin City Council voted to divest funds from the city's police department. The decision comes after police fired bags filled with lead pellets at demonstrators during the first weekend of protests against police brutality.
— Texas Observer (@TexasObserver) June 13, 2020
From @KUT: https://t.co/yLWA6P7xcy
Here are ways to support the movement for black lives here in #SATX—including taking the streets (three actions today alone!), organizing around local demands, and forward toward prison abolition and alternatives to policing. https://t.co/flOlm44HRQ #blacklivesmatter #defundsapd
— Deceleration News (@MyDeceleration) June 13, 2020
Organizers of the Black Lives Matter movement met Sunday afternoon to discuss the root of local police brutality: “the corrupt police association contract.” https://t.co/ReC8K3hl51
— Rivard Report (@RivardReport) June 16, 2020
The current rally at #Houston City Hall is organized by Pantsuit Republic. That's the Hillary "Super Predator" Clinton pantsuit inspired liberal group.
— Stevens Orozco (@_StevensOrozco) June 10, 2020
Thought it was a #DefundThePolice rally, but their flyer is only asking for de-escalation and implicit bias training.
SMH
University of Texas interim president Jay Hartzell says he is scheduling meetings with student groups after dozens of Longhorns athletes said they wanted the school to ditch “The Eyes of Texas” song and rename several campus buildings.
— AP Top 25 (@AP_Top25) June 16, 2020
by @JimVertuno
https://t.co/T67da7Am0G
This explains why the some black students at the University of Texas want to drop the “Eyes of Texas” as the school song. https://t.co/vwcQoV3EgF
— Jose de Jesus Ortiz (@OrtizKicks) June 12, 2020
Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when Union soldiers landed in Galveston w/ news that the war had ended and the enslaved were now free.
— Progress Texas (@ProgressTX) June 13, 2020
This year, #Juneteenth falls at an especially crucial moment in the fight for freedom and justice for Black Americans.https://t.co/9W3o8bnRbM
I just signed this petition to have the Confederate monuments removed from Bastrop TX, where the courts continue to deny Rodney Reed his right to fair trial. Take them DOWN! - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/MjeldwOtDC via @Change
— Rodney Reed (@FreeRodneyReed) June 13, 2020
Ezekiel Elliott, several Cowboys and Houston Texans players test positive for COVID-19, per CBS Sports #HouNews #DFW #NFL https://t.co/IxqgXeFMP4
— Forever in debt to your priceless advice. (@PDiddie) June 15, 2020
“Patients were scared and frantic for options. The governor and attorney general’s ban put Texas patients in heart-breaking situations — it was politics at its worst.” -Sarah Wheat, chief external affairs officer at @PPGreaterTX https://t.co/R56fAulMhu
— Planned Parenthood Texas Votes (@PPTXVotes) June 15, 2020
The Houston Sierra Club reports that Harris County is considering releasing genetically modified mosquitoes into the environment to see how that goes.
The mosquito species Aedes aegypti, originally from Africa, has been genetically modified by a British biotech company to prevent them from reproducing. The mosquito is one of several species of mosquitoes responsible for the Zika and other viruses in Harris County, according to the Harris County Public Health Department. However, the Aedes aegypti prefers to live near and feed on people.
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Frank Blake of the Sierra Club writes about modified mosquito project that “there are social and environmental justice concerns around the lack of transparency, the release site of the mosquitoes, the fact that Harris County residents cannot consent to essentially being human experiments and the impacts this may have on our local environment.”
He notes that environmental advocates suggest that “there are existing, less risky methods of mosquito control that have documented and demonstrated effectiveness.”
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