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-War on Police-

Austin bar shooting bodycam due out as DA makes major call about cops who shot suspected terrorist

2026-03-05

[FoxNews] Travis County DA José Garza instituted 2021 policy requiring all officer-involved shootings go before a grand jury

Bodycam video from the Austin mass shooting, which is being investigated as a terrorist attack, will be released on Thursday as the county's liberal district attorney announced he would take no action against the three officers who killed the suspect.

In a news release on Wednesday, Travis County District Attorney José Garza

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announced no action would be taken against the three police officers who killed 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne.

…mentally unstable, antisemitic, misogynistic, racist illegal immigrant criminal from Senegal who suddenly decided to kill a bunch of people for the greater glory of Iran and Allah, but may not be the lone wolf jihadi he first appeared — exactly the kind of person the Obama administration liked to grant citizenship…

Diagne shot and killed three people and left more than a dozen other people injured on Sunday outside a bar in Austin, Texas.

"Today, the Travis County District Attorney’s Office notified the Austin Police Department that it has formally concluded its review of the mass shooting on 6th Street and will take no action against the three officers who stopped the shooting," the news release stated.

Under a 2021 policy by Garza's office, all officer-involved shooting cases were to be presented to a grand jury.

Austin Police Association President Michael Bullock told Fox News Digital he wishes Garza would have made the decision to not convene a grand jury much earlier, and said police officers are under constant fear of being targeted by the liberal district attorney.

"The reality is APD officers are more afraid of the DA targeting them than a gunman shooting at them," Bullock told Fox News Digital.

Bullock said it's the first time Garza hasn't presented an officer-involved shooting to a grand jury since implementing the policy.

Doug O'Connell, a criminal defense attorney representing the Austin police officers, told Fox News the 2021 policy was instituted at the direction of the Wren Collective, which is a criminal-justice reform group providing financial support to progressive prosecutors.

"When our current district attorney came into office about six years ago, he instituted this policy at the direction of the Wren Collective, and it's been in place since that time. Every officer-involved shooting has been presented to the grand jury," O'Connell said. "It's not required by law. It is simply a policy decision that he's instituted at the direction of Wren Collective."

Bullock said the Wren Collective has recently pushed "to increase the number of indictments against officers which can only be done through grand jury."

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