The Gun Counter

Netpackrat wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:39 am I'm not sure what I think of backing up fellow officers overriding following instructions from elected leadership, even if the results in this instance were highly satisfactory.

More info needed to evaluate that. If the incident took place in the jurisdiction of DPS, then they have the lead and Austin PD was likely there as mutual aid, in which case they base their response in support of the lead agency. At that point, they either back up DPS or they pull out altogether.

I suspect that the political leadership does not want to get into the mode of not responding to mutual aid requests for the sake of scoring virtue signaling points, as what goes around comes around.

Rod wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 12:31 am

Langenator wrote: ↑Thu Oct 25, 2018 1:24 am https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/0 ... sts-video/

https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.co ... in-tx.html

Looking at some of the troopers in those videos and photos...I didn't even know DPS had bike officers.

They don't. That was Austin PD on the bikes AND DPS tossing people around. When it comes to messing with Texas, no law enforcement officer is nice.

The uniform on the bike officer isn't right for APD. APD's bike uniform shirt is two tone blue, regular blue for the upper part and dark blue for the lower. The bike guy I see in both posts is wearing a tan shirt. Both DPS and Travis County SO use tan shirts. And I can't say for certain due to the low image quality, but the shoulder patch looks to me to be the DPS patch. Definitely not APD or TCSO.

I'll just leave this here: https://youtu.be/gjzeNBSZFUo

Hat tip to a former gun counter member

Heh! And while a satire its amazing how much is essentially factual.