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Keep Austin Weird, not drug-overdosed and on fire.

[Austin people @PeopleAustin]

Black lives matter literally, and obviously. It's surprising anyone had to be told. BLM movement would be even stronger by disconnecting from Marxism. Marxism and socialism results are partly why you don't move to Russia or Cuba, right @GregCasar?

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

Austin just made it harder to use tech to catch criminals.

Austin ran a one-year license plate reader trial that was, according to an auditor, successful because it led to the arrests of and prosecutions of hundreds of criminals and led to no unjustified police stops.

Despite -- or perhaps BECAUSE OF -- the success of the program, migrant advocacy groups lobbied hard against these tools and city council ended the contract last June.

Now city council went further and put in place a byzantine and highly restrictive approval processes before any department can deploy plate readers, drones, or other surveillance tools. The data collected may also be less relevant due to strict retention restrictions.

Other cities are moving the opposite direction and having good results. For example, SF is now deploying hundreds of more plate readers and drones and crime is now at half of its 2023 level, far outpacing the general national decline in crime. Similarly with Dallas.

Besides making it harder to catch criminals, there's an unintended consequence of Austin's anti-tech move. Plate readers are narrowly scoped because they, for instance, flag a vehicle against a hot list and ignore everything else. Without them, the work falls back to humans: officers tailing suspects, reviewing more records by hand, looking over hours of footage of cameras all over the city frame by frame. This is not only slower and less precise, but it's arguably more invasive than police relying on an AI camera.

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

Austin has an epidemic of bus stabbings. Here are a few from the last few months alone.

May 2025: A young entrepreneur sitting on a bus is stabbed in the neck by a demented homeless repeat criminal with a butcher knife. Suspect tells police he killed him because he “resembled my uncle.”

January 24, 2026: A man stands up mid-ride, walks to the back of the bus, and stabs another passenger three times -- twice in the back, once in the chest.

January 29: A woman pulls a knife from her purse on a bus downtown, tells a man "I will stab you," and does. Bond set at $3,000.

February 5: A teenager is stabbed at a bus stop near LBJ High School.

CapMetro stood up its own police department last summer -- an admission that public transit has become one of the most dangerous places in Austin.

[johnnyk2000 @johnnyk20001]

Austin’s 3-week homeless camp cleanup effort cost more than $830K. 71 people were given citations by APD
22 people were arrested, mostly for outstanding warrants. Hundreds of tons of debris was collected. 369 city staff utilized https://t.co/sLdstcPU5H

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

AUSTIN MAN banged on the locked glass doors of Padrón Elementary as students arrived for class, screaming "I'm going to go inside and kill, I'm gonna find a way to get in."

Michael Nnaji has racked up 34 cases since 2019.

Nnaji was once caught in an apartment gym—completely nude except for sandals—admiring his physique in the mirrors. He then picked up a heavy kettlebell and hurled it repeatedly through a glass office door until it shattered.

Prosecutors dismissed it.

His record of leniency:
• Robbery was reduced to misdemeanor
• 7 felony Evading Arrests all dismissed or reduced
• 4 burglaries were all dismissed

He also made 84 illegal entries into one gas station in a single month.

His only trip to prison was a 2-year plea deal for aggravated assault with serious bodily injury, a crime that can get someone with priors 20 years easily.

After threatening to massacre elementary students in October 2025:
• Released on bond
• Skipped court
• Arrested Dec 3rd for trespassing at the same gas station
• Prosecutors DISMISSED the new trespass 5 days later, while he was a fugitive on the school threat case.

34 cases. 0 jury trials.

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

AUSTIN MAN who killed 3 — including a child — in Monday’s Target parking lot shooting had a long, violent record in Travis & Williamson counties.

Ethan Blaine Nieneker's Record:

TRAVIS COUNTY:
• 2016 felony assault (family violence, repeat offense) → reduced to misdemeanor, deferred adjudication
• 2016 protective order violation & criminal mischief → 60 days jail
• 2017 DWI 2nd → 90 days jail
• 2019 felony assault (family violence, prior conviction) → bond forfeiture after absconding; dismissed 2022 (“unable to locate victim”)

WILLIAMSON COUNTY:
• 2011 marijuana possession → 2 days jail
• 2015 DWI → 120 days jail (credit for time served)
• 2015 felony criminal mischief ($100K–$200K damage) → probation, later revoked
• 2015 assault (family violence) — two separate cases → both dismissed (one via §12.45, one “other”)

Despite repeated arrests for violence, protective order violations, and serious property crimes — plus skipped court and probation revocations — Nieneker was repeatedly given dismissals, reduced charges, and short jail stints.

Today, he allegedly murdered three people outside a North Austin Target, then fled in two stolen cars before being arrested.

[Austin Police Department @Austin_Police]

POLICE ACTIVITY: APD Officers are responding to a shooting incident at the Target located at 8601 Research Boulevard. The suspect is still at large. The suspect is described as a White male. Possibly wearing khaki shorts, Hawaiian/floral shirt. DO NOT APPROACH. For your safety avoid the area. Call 9-1-1 if you see any suspicious activity.

[Grace Reader @GraceReaderTV]

Videos from tonight’s protest in downtown Austin. Details: https://t.co/R1B66jtnMB

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

AUSTIN, TX — The correlation is undeniable: fewer people in jail means more dead bodies on the street.

As Travis County jail bookings plummeted 35% from 2010-2024, homicides skyrocketed 123%.

In 2011 we had 59k bookings and 31 murders. By 2021: just 22k bookings but 85 murders.

[David Fugitt @Homicide_One]

Austin City Officials were so concerned at the time. I was assigned to a squad of Officers tasked with protecting the private homes of Austin City Council members and the Mayor from rioters. We rode in unmarked cars so that attention was not brought to the fact that City leaders were receiving VIP security from APD at the same time that those on the front lines were being criminally charged for their use of less lethal.

[KXAN News @KXAN_News]

The Austin Police Department is asking for help identifying a suspect who was allegedly involved in a road rage incident on Interstate 35 in April.
https://t.co/UyIartZpZC

[Austin Police Department @Austin_Police]

APD Detectives Search for a Suspect in Connection to a Robbery - https://t.co/zhUiGTia0N

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

AUSTIN, TX — Word has gotten out that auto theft is not prosecuted under DA Garza.

Your car is more than 2x likely to be stolen under Garza.

Now about 15 cars stolen/day in Austin.

[Austin people @PeopleAustin]

@GregCasar

[Austin people @PeopleAustin]

@DocumentingATX What part of Austin? ...in case others have more videos of the person.

[Michael Bullock @MBullockATX]

Murderer has had 40 cases here in Travis County. Since 2020 alone:

- Possession of controlled substance: County Attorney declined to prosecute
- Possession of methamphetamine: declined to prosecute
- Possession of methamphetamine: Agreed to drug treatment, DA dismissed.
- Evaded in motor vehicle from APD: 6months in jail.
- False report to peace officer: CA declined to prosecute.
- Second DWI: CA Dismissed
- DWI/Obstructing a highway: 10days in jail
- Aggravated Robbery: pending

This guy committed Austin’s 62nd homicide. A known drug user who runs from officers, lies to them, and has a history of driving while intoxicated. Yet our prosecutors decided he kept needing additional chances - now a woman is dead. Each homicide committed by a repeat offender is at the hands of soft on crime policy. Maybe it’s time Delia and Jose start taking their job seriously.

[FAFO Farms @FAFOFarmsTX]

Email from Public Records Request that is redacted vs unredacted email

[Greg Casar @GregCasar]

We did it!! Austin City Council just reduced APD's budget by over $100 million *and* reinvested resources into our community's safety and well-being. Tens of thousands of you have called, emailed, and testified. You made the impossible into a reality. #blacklivesmatter

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

WATCH: CNN hack reporter just tried to bait Vivek into turning on Trump

Instead, Vivek instantly flipped the script on her leaving her in shocked bewilderment on LIVE TV— PURE FIRE. 🔥

"You know what's vermin? What's running around San Francisco on any given day before Gavin Newsom cleaned it up on a dime to roll out the red carpet for Xi Jinping."

[johnnyk2000 @johnnyk20001]

County Attorney Delia Garza complains to city staff about DPS arrests causing a heavy workload. As of Sept. 15th DPS has seized 7.72 lbs of heroin, 615.57 lbs of cocaine. Recovered 220 stolen vehicles. Seized 209 firearms. Worked 359 crash investigations
https://t.co/Upy879hzEZ