An Austin Police union has exposed the ‘miserable’ conditions faced by officers after the defund movement stripped departments and gutted the workforce.
George Floyd’s killing by a Minneapolis cop and the resulting Black Lives Matter riots led to widespread demonization of police forces across the US.
Austin PD’s budget was hammered with a $150million cut approved by the Democrat-run Texas city’s council after its own scandal following the shooting of an unarmed black man in April 2020 – just weeks before Floyd’s death.
