Gift Cards Used By City To Pay People To Attend Police 'Reimaging,' 'Anti-Racism' Functions

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Ever wonder how the Left is seemingly and constantly able to draw out so many more "community participants" than conservatives for rallies, protests, government hearings, and various indoctrination efforts?

An open records request shared on Twitter sheds some light on how that may happen in many cases. In this case, a proposal of using untraceable gift cards to use taxpayer funds to pay participants to attend "anti-racism," Critical Race Theory-driven trainings is clearly laid out in a series of obtained emails.

According to the records, doling out gift cards as compensation for attendance and feedback may have happened at least once before -- during "Reimagining Public Safety" community gatherings.

According to the open records relayed by Twitter account @JohnnyK2001 (see screenshots below), the city of Austin's Farah Muscadin, director of the city's Police Oversight office, requested $55,000 in gift cards from the city's purchasing office (check that: she called it a "need").

VIDEO: ANTIFA harasses Austin City Manager at home for not being leftist enough

Smile! You're on comrade camera!

Mum's the word after the radical Left appears to have paid the city manager of Austin an unfriendly home visit, recently.

It appears one of Austin's ANTIFA chapters is not satisfied with Austin City Manager Spencer Cronk, even though he presided over the Austin City Council's cutting of the local police department budget by one-third, a lifting of homeless camping and panhandling policies, and numerous efforts at Leftist social engineering in the city. They came to what may very well be Cronk's doorstep, gave several public policy "demands," harrangued the city's chief executive for his salary, and acted like, well, fascists.

According to Texas Scorecard's Adam Cahn and avid Twitter poster "Teddy Broosevelt:"

Police Assn: 'Investigate immediately' allegations of DA's evidence tampering, denial of Due Process

Travis County D.A. Jose Garza on the far-left of a stage at a campaign event (source: Facebook)

Criticism continues to mount regarding how Travis County District Attorney José Garza is running his office and prosecuting cases.

Garza, a hard-left Democrat elected during the 2020 presidential cycle during which liberal-progressive voters were out in full force, is facing allegations of denying defendants their constitutional due process according to Austin's police union.  

In a press statement from Austin Police Association (APA), "Brady notices" were filed by an assistant district attorney in two cases -- "one involving a child victim of an aggravated sexual assault and the other a homicide," according to APA President Ken Cassaday.

First, a little background on what a "Brady notice" means. Not to be confused with the anti-gun Brady Act, the required disclosure is named for the U.S. Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland (1963). In Brady, the majority ruled that suppression, by the prosecution of evidence which may be favorable to a defendant who as requested to see it, is a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's protection of due process.