Todd Jeffries

BREAKING — new details about Friday's Austin bus stabbing. Two passengers were sitting in the back of the #3 bus on South Lamar, having a Bible discussion. Rogerio Martinez, sitting across from them, apparently found this annoying. "I'm tired of hearing your voice,” Martinez said. Then he stood up with a kitchen knife. One was mid-conversation, turned away, when the first blade went into his back. He spun around and threw up his bare hands -- Martinez kept stabbing. Four times total. A stranger named jumped in, pushed Martinez off, and wrestled him into a bus seat. Martinez stabbed him in the leg anyway. Bleeding, the man held him pinned to the seat until police arrived. Officers found Martinez still on the bus, blood on his hands and shirt, surrounded by people he'd just put on the ground. He refused to talk. One victim was transported to Dell Seton in critical condition. The other to South Austin Hospital. Surveillance footage captured all of it. Martinez -- who was named as the suspect yesterday on this account before local news reported it today -- has spent decades cycling through Texas courtrooms: robbing people, strangling a family member, and most recently beating an HEB security guard in the forehead with her own flashlight. Four aggravated robbery charges, a family strangulation, a felony assault knocked to a misdemeanor -- and every time, a system that found a reason to put him back on the street. Two people are in the hospital now because prosecutors apparently never attempted to take him to court and face punishment for his crimes.

The Travis County District Attorney’s office just sent me this statement regarding the recent allegations of withholding evidence and violating due process rights. The allegations stem from an APD officer’s felony aggravated assault charges during the 2020 George Floyd riots. @cbsaustin

For immediate release. The Austin Police Retired Officers Association (APROA) has long stood with the 19 officers who were wrongly indicted following the 2020 protests in Austin. In the sweltering days of those May protests, Austin Police officers, some now APROA members, rallied around ardent crowds to protect their right to peaceably assemble. Many protestors did, but others chose to agitate, to threaten officers, to dox them, and to assault them for no other reason than because of their profession. Following their example, Jose Garza has seized every potential opportunity to prosecute law enforcement personnel during his tenure as the Travis County District Attorney. Mr. Garza’s ambition, fueled by political will rather than application of the law, is on full display in the legal motion filed today by Doug O’Connell, attorney for Austin Police Officer Chance Bretches.   Jose Garza’s habitual misconduct and his lack of prosecutorial experience puts our entire community at risk. Felony cases, when properly handled, present opportunities for the innocent to be absolved of serious allegations, for the guilty to be held accountable and for the residents of Travis County to have confidence in the judicial system. In order for these principles to be upheld, Travis County needs a new district attorney. It is for that reason that the APROA is calling for Jose Garza to resign immediately. For questions about the APROA’s position on this matter, please email APROA President Dennis Farris at APROAPrez@gmail.com or call 512-944-3148. @APROA01 @DouglasOConnell @ATXPOA @FoxNews @statesman @cbsaustin @fox7austin @KVUE @KXAN_News

BOMBSHELL MOTION FILED – AUSTIN DA JOSE GARZA CAUGHT IN 3-YEAR COVER-UP Travis County DA’s office secretly planned to INDICT THE CITY OF AUSTIN for APD’s actions during the 2020 riots…then hid the entire scheme when they botched the statute of limitations.   Instead of disclosing this explosive exculpatory evidence to indicted Officer Chance Bretches (and the public), they buried it – while prosecuting junior line officers who followed orders and used the defective bean bag rounds issued by the city. Evidence of an un-indicted co-defendant or an alternative suspect is always required to be disclosed to the Defense and ensures a fair trial. Sworn affidavits from former Assistant City Manager Bruce Mills and ex-Council Member Mackenzie Kelly prove it: multiple secret meetings with Garza himself, negotiations to make the City “take accountability” in exchange for dropping cop charges, then total radio silence to the defense. This isn’t a mistake. It’s deliberate. It violates Brady, the Michael Morton Act, the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, the Disciplinary Rules, and the Court’s own orders.  Our motion demands DISMISSAL WITH PREJUDICE – and lays out the DA’s patter of misconduct towards law enforcement (sanctions in other cop cases + witness tampering allegations included).    No other remedy protects the defendant’s rights. And no Judge can ever be sure that all of the evidence will ever be disclosed as required by law.    Full 20-page Motion to Dismiss + Exhibits (Mills Decl., Kelly Decl., prior sanctions order) attached. Read it. Share it. This is how “justice” actually looks in Travis County.    #AustinPD #JoseGarza #ProsecutorialMisconduct #DueProcess RT if you believe cops deserve fair trials too. 🔥  emerald-malorie-91.tiiny.site