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At their April 20 work session, the members of the Austin City Council certainly sounded thankful for the recommendations the City-Community Reimagining Public Safety Task Force had just laid at their feet. Vanessa Fuentes expressed her gratitude. Ann Kitchen promised to study the recommendations. Alison Alter praised the task force members for pouring themselves into the work.
Those whom they d praised – the community activists the task force comprises – were quite untouched. With the three-hour meeting wrapping up, they wanted to know where they stood. It s imperative that we see the city manager s office, staff, council, and the city as a whole make a public commitment, said Monica Guzmán of Go Austin/Vamos Austin.
Baylor students hold demonstration to stop AAPI hate after Asian American student assaulted near campus
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and last updated 2021-04-27 23:13:07-04
WACO, TX â Baylor students of the AAPI community and other backgrounds have come together to stand up and make a change. This comes after an Asian American student was verbally and physically assaulted based on his race..
Christine Phan, coalition intern under the Department of Multicultural Affairs, organized Tuesday s demonstration and says it s time the AAPI community has a voice. The stereotype is that Asians are not politically active, and so just to have everyone come out to today, just to see everyone post the fliers on social media, it means a lot, Phan said.
Is it time to put APD s police horses out to pasture? (Photo by David Brendan Hall)
When it was first conceived last summer, the City-Community Reimagining Public Safety Task Force was expected to deliver its final report in March, the middle of the city s budget year. This would allow the panel s recommendations to be followed by amendments to
this year s budget that would ideally add up to the $150 million or so that City Council, and particularly its left wing, wanted to reallocate from the Austin Police Department
this year to show that it heard and felt the swelling pain and outrage of a city that had taken to the streets with unprecedented vigor to demand that Austin s relationship with its police force change
Waco PD search for suspect accused of racial slurs, assaulting Asian American man
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and last updated 2021-04-22 23:22:26-04
WACO, TX â The Waco Police Department is searching for a suspect accused of yelling racial slurs and assaulting an Asian American man near Baylor University early Sunday morning.
The incident happened around 2 a.m. on Sunday, April 18 in the area of South 3rd Street and Gurley Lane.
Authorities say the victim and another person had left a friend s house and were walking down South 3rd Street when several people in a pickup truck drove by and yelled racial slurs at the victim.
D.C. Comprehensive Plan Update Needs Equity Improvements, Report Says
The new D.C. Office of Equity has produced an evaluation of proposed changes to the D.C. Comprehensive Plan. April 22, 2021, 5am PDT | James Brasuell | As the D.C. Council prepares to debate and propose amendments to the city’s Comprehensive Plan, a new analysis from the Council’s Office of Racial Equity has issued a withering assessment of the plan’s impact on racial equity, reports Ally Schweitzer.
Schwietzer puts the report in context of the political and planning process for the Comprehensive Plan update:
The analysis is expected to be the subject of intense discussion [April 20], as lawmakers convene to work on proposed changes to the roughly 1,500-page land-use document, which guides development and growth in the city over a 20-year period. The markup is the latest phase in a five-year-long amendment process watched closely by low-income housing advocates, real estate developers and suppo