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Contract talks between San Antonio and police union stall - yet again - over officer discipline
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Negotiators for the city of San Antonio and the San Antonio Police Officers Association failed to reach an agreement regarding the authority of arbitrators to overturn Police Chief William McManus’ disciplinary decisions.Jerry Lara /San Antonio Express-News
San Antonio city negotiators and police union officials appeared close Thursday to an agreement on one of the most contentious aspects of the disciplinary process, about five months after talks began for a new contract.
Earlier this month, the two sides indicated they would likely have a compromise by Thursday regarding the appeals process for officers fired or disciplined for misconduct.
There s no finish line : A desire for healing between police, communities of color | Together We Rise
Part Three of KENS 5 s Police and Race series focuses on the search for solutions to ease the friction between law enforcement and people of color. Author: Marvin Hurst, Mat Gaskins Published: 9:55 PM CDT July 20, 2021 Updated: 10:24 PM CDT July 20, 2021
SAN ANTONIO Police and Race is a KENS 5 series that goes deeper into the complex relationship between law enforcement and people of color. In Part One, the voices who want change shared their views. In Part Two, police had their say.
Part Three focuses on the search for solutions to ease the friction and digs into a desire to heal despite no real effort from either side to sit down and hash things out.
I back the blue, but I wake up Black : Officers weigh in on policing and race | Together We Rise Police & Race is a three-part deep dive into the complex relationship between law enforcement and people of color. Author: Marvin Hurst, Mat Gaskins Published: 8:50 PM CDT July 13, 2021 Updated: 10:24 PM CDT July 13, 2021
SAN ANTONIO Police and Race is a KENS 5 series that goes deeper into the complex relationship between law enforcement and people of color. In Part One, the voices who want change shared their views. In Part Two, police have their say.
John Danny Diaz, president of the San Antonio Police Officers Association: That uniform doesn t make you God. You put your pants on, like everybody else does.
Police & Race pledges to showcase the issue with the hopeful notion of change.
Police & Race is broken down into three parts: The voices of change, the police, and the solution.
To ensure the volume of information is easier to digest, we ve changed our typical format to accommodate the views and facts from our experts. How do we get from the anger to let s work this out and find a solution to change?
Credit: KENS 5
Debbie Bush, Reliable Revolutionaries
Who: Debbie Bush is the aunt of Marquise Jones. San Antonio Police Officer Robert Encina killed him on February 28, 2014, following a fender bender in the drive-thru at Chacho s and Chalucci s.