'Your socialist neighbor' - North Side council runoff brims with culture war overtones
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Candidates for San Antonio City Council District 9 including Erika Moe, and from left, Patrick Von Dohlen and current District 9 City Councilman John Courage participate in the Greater Harmony Hills Neighborhood Association's Candidate Debate Night at Vogt Auction House in San Antonio on April 8, 2021.Lisa Krantz / Staff photographer
City Council member John Courage, a progressive Democrat from the city’s most Republican district, vividly remembers June 25, 2020, when several young Black activists came before the council to protest police brutality and implored white and Hispanic elders on the dais to raise their fists in solidarity.