In front of the Capitol, the protestors chanted “no peace until no police” and said Austin Police officers should not have the ability to decide life or death for community members.
"APD is trained to answer situations like this with violence directly and not care for our communities," protestor Mari said.
Mari with ATX Students for Revolution, a communist group, wants to abolish all police departments. They said there are other ways to protect the community. "Abolition is a process; it involves taking away the police and reinvesting in the community using the money we would have spent on police and other ways we can also do that is opening up new programs to fill the roles of police once had and do them better," Mari said."It’s just a bunch of children living in a detached reality thinking that they can form some utopian ideal of no police and citizens policing themselves, it’s detached from reality," Rarey said.
He said that could be dangerous. "When you allow civilians to do whatever they want without repercussions, criminals are going to thrive," Rarey said.All the news you need to know, every day
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