Take Action to Defund Austin Police

Start: 2020-06-11 10:00:00 UTC Central Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00)

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The Austin City Council will vote on Resolutions 95 and 96 on Thursday, June 11th, to move toward defunding APD positions and restrict the use of militarized weapons.

The Austin DSA Leadership Committee has passed this resolution in support of defunding the police at Thursday's meeting. Read the full resolution here.

These are substantial measures in response to police violence. They would be major controls on police use of force and restrictions on militarized weapons, surveillance, and violent crowd control tactics against protesters. They would also be a crucial first step to seriously shifting funding away from policing and toward community-based and public health/EMS focused solutions. These are important steps to eliminating the tragedy of police brutality against working class communities of color in Austin.

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