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Buford’s reopens a week after deadly shooting · Austin Signal

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Buford's backyard beer garden was
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open for business over the weekend,
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just days after a shooting left
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three people dead and more than a
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dozen injured.
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Some folks in town felt the opening
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was rushed after such a tragedy.
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We're going to hear from some
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patrons who felt showing up was the
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right thing to do.
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And after the alleged shooter in
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that attack was identified, a woman
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from Buda is alleging that she was
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assaulted by the suspect in a
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separate incident last year at the
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Tesla Gigafactory.
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What we know about the incident
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and a lawsuit that is coming
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up. On today's show.
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The Austin Signal is a production
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of KUT News, hosted by
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Jerry Quijano.
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Plus, SXSW starts its
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takeover of Austin this Thursday.
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Our sister station, KUTX, is gearing
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up to bring you plenty of live music
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from right here in town and from
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around the world.
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That's up next, right here on
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Austin Signal.
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Howdy out there. Thank you for
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tuning in. This is Austin Signal
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here on listener powered
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public radio.
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KUT News 90.5
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on the KUT app and
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online at KUT.org.
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I'm your host Jerry Quijano.
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It is the ninth day of March.
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Thank you for making us part of
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your Monday.
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Let's get into today's show.
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We have a lot to share with you.
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Let us start by telling you about
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the Austin Police Department's rules
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for how its officers contact
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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The change comes after a heated
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community meeting last month where
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members of the public asked APD to
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refuse to work with ICE and
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to refuse to comply with Texas law
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forbidding cities from telling
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officers that they cannot report
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people to ICE.
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For more about these new rules,
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we're speaking with KUT's Moe's
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Bouchelle, who has been following
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this story. Moe, thanks for joining
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us. Hey Jerry.
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So let's start with the rules.
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They were published on APD's website
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last week with little fanfare
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and there was a lot happening last
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week. What do these rules say?
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So basically, the idea is
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that they need new guidance
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for officers when they encounter
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people in the course of doing their
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jobs, they do a background check,
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and they see that Immigrations and
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Customs Enforcement has flagged
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these people with what they call
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administrative warrants.
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They're not criminal warrants,
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they're just basically, their
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notice is that an ICE agent thinks
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this person might be in the country
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in an unauthorized manner.
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And so police officers,
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city officers, might encounter that
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in the course of their work.
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How they respond to that is
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what these rules are meant to give
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guidance for.
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Okay so what is the change is it now
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that it's not just going to be up to
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the to the discretion of one officer
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how are the rules changing or or
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what's the oversight being added.
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Yeah, so that's exactly what it
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is. There's kind of added oversight.
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Previously, as these ICE warrants
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started kind of flooding the system
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last year, officers were
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often contacting ICE to
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tell immigration federal agents
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that they had these people in
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front of them. In some cases,
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the local officers would even detain
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or keep a person on scene while
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ICE agents arrive.
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This It didn't happen a lot, but it
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did happen, and it happened most.
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Uh... Kind of faith famously with in
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the case of a woman and her daughter
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who were deported very early this
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year so the city is
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back and the city's constrained
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in what it can say because there is
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state law state law says
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as you already pointed out that
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cities can't tell officers not to
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call ice What the
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new rule does say, however, is
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if you are a police officer and
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you encounter someone with an
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administrative warrant and they have
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not committed any
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other chargeable offense, so they're
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not going to be brought to the
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county jail where ICE will very
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likely also pick them up,
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you cannot detain
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that person on
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your own. You can't make the
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decision on your to hold that person
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for ICE to come. What you got to do
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is call go up the chain of
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command call your you know,
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commanding officer, and there are
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several different stages that will
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go up to get authorization
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for an
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officer to detain someone
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to wait for ICE.
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The idea here is that that
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will not happen or will not happened
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very frequently because
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the Austin Police Department's
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position has always been, we don't
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have the resources to do that.
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And you've written about this in
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your latest story.
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We're going to have a link to that in
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the show notes, but it's been
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something that you have been
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covering for the last few months.
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And we've talked about the
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limitations that have been placed on
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the city and on the police
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department. In your story, you write
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that city officials are hoping to
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thread the needle with this
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decision. How so?
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Yes so like i said you know state
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law says you can't not you can tell
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officers not to call ice uh...
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And cities are really really
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confining what they can do but the
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they can still determine where
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to use their resources uh...
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You know the law appears to to allow
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cities to reallocate
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officers where they want
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to to to do their job of
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enforcing criminal law you know or
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or you know you know in the city and
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so uh...
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Presumably a commander might look at
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an officer call hey we found someone
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who has an administrative warrant.
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That commander will say, well,
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listen, we don't want you to spend
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the man hours
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waiting around for maybe for ICE to
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show up. So you got to go
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and do your job somewhere else.
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That could decrease the number of
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times that an officer maybe
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calls ICE and certainly
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waits with a person for ICE to
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arrive to detain them.
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We've heard a lot about the
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relationship between law enforcement
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and the immigration community here
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in Austin and across the country.
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Ridley, what have you heard from
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immigration advocates about this
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new policy change from APD?
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Yeah, I think it's really important
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to point out that we're talking
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about city police officers here.
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This is a new rule that
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may have a kind of impact
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in certain circumstances,
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right?
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But in the state of Texas,
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state police are
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doing immigration enforcement,
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and their advocates and immigration
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lawyers advise people to
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treat the police as though they were
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immigration agents in many cases.
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There are many,
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many circumstances in which...
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Someone may still be concerned
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about interacting with the police,
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even
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in light of this one
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change to local policy.
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And again, I would also stress,
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if someone is sent to the county
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jail on any kind of
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potential charge,
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ICE is also there and picking people
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up from the county jail.
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There are just many different ways
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in which someone may find themselves
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in the...
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Deportation process, quite frankly,
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after engaging
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with law enforcement.
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We've been speaking with Moe's Boo
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Shell. He is KUT's energy and
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environment correspondent and has
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been doing lots of immigration
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reporting for the Texas Newsroom.
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Right here with us on Austin Signal
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as well. Moe, thanks for coming back
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on the show. We appreciate you.
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The KUT newsroom is continuing to
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report on the aftermath of this
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month's deadly shooting at Buford's
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on West 6th Street.
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The bar opened up for business again
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late last Friday.
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We're gonna have more about that
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coming up in a few moments.
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After the alleged shooter was
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identified, a woman who worked at
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Tesla identified him as the man who
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had attacked her last year in a
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separate incident on the job.
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Now she is suing Tesla.
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For more about, that we're speaking
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with KUT's government accountability
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reporter, Andrew Weber.
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Andrew, thanks for coming on the
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show. Yeah. Thanks for having me,
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Jerry. So tell us, what do we know
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about this lawsuit so far?
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This lawsuit was filed last week
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here in Travis County by
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a woman named Lillian Brady.
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She is a 65 year old
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worker at the Gigafactory out
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in Del Valley.
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And she says last
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December, early December, she was
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assaulted by Ndiaga Diagne.
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She didn't even know
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who, didn't know his name at the
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time. She just encountered him at
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work. There was an altercation and
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she just figured out because his
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Face has been plastered all over the
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news and found a lawsuit.
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Did she try to get the information
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from her employers there at Tesla?
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She did, yes.
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And they, her attorney says
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they, they stonewalled her
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basically. So that's why they filed
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this lawsuit.
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Okay, was law
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enforcement involved at that time at
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all?
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Yes. She went to Tesla basically
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and said, this person assaulted
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me. This happened early in the
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morning. He was
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allegedly was praying and she was,
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you know, sort of walking to her
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workstation, didn't want to disturb
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him. Apparently did according
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to the lawsuit and he threw
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it onto the ground.
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And so she went to her bosses and
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said I would like to know the name
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of this employee who assaulted me
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and they basically said, okay,
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no, according to, you know,
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her attorney.
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After that, she did go to the
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Travis County Sheriff's Office,
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and this sort of is intersectional
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with the whole,
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this man was not on law
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enforcement's radar.
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I have questions about that because
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there was an investigation into
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this, Travis County Sheriff's told
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me that it has since been
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closed because the suspect is
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dead. And so that's where
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we're at with that.
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You mentioned that Austin Police, we
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found out through press conferences
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last week that they had not
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encountered the suspect prior to the
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shooting at Buford.
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What do we know about the other
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interactions that he did have with
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law enforcement?
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Yeah, he had some
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allegations in civil court in
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2022 of domestic violence
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in Bear County.
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Sam at The Austin Current has been
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covering that.
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And he, according to the
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Department of Homeland Security,
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was arrested after a crash
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in 2022,
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I believe as well.
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That's all that we really have.
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I've filed a records request for
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what the Travis County Sheriff's
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knew as it relates to this incident.
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Um, I haven't gotten anything back
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on that, but you know, they have to
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legally have to get back to us
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within 10 days.
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Okay yeah, you mentioned Sam Stark
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with the Austin Curran, we had him
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on the show Friday, you can find
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more from that interview at kut.org
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slash signal.
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Why is this lawsuit happening now?
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That's a good question.
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I spoke with Bob Hilliard,
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who is Ms.
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Brady's attorney, and he
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said there is the question,
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this looming question of why
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wasn't he on law enforcement's
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radar?
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And this incident could have
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maybe put him on law-enforcement's
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radar in a more sort of robust
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way, for lack of a better word.
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APD and the FBI have both said that
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we didn't know this guy.
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But Bob Hillard, the attorney says,
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this all raises questions.
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For him because, you know,
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it raises the big question of could
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this have been prevented?
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It's curious to me that a company
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as sophisticated as Tesla, a
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company that claims they can go to
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Mars, has no way
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of making sure not only
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that their employees remain safe,
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but also have no way to
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identify and make
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law enforcement aware of
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these type of troubling behaviors,
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which often do lead
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to an escalation.
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Tragically, the escalation in
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this case was unthinkable.
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All right, we have been speaking
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with Andrew Weber.
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He is KUT's government
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accountability reporter.
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We're gonna have a link to his
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reporting in today's show notes and
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again at kut.org slash
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signal.
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Andrew, thank you for coming on the
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show. Thank you, Jerry.
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Well, one week after the deadly
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shooting outside Buford's backyard
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beer garden on West 6th Street,
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the bar was back open to
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patrons.
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KUT's Katy McAfee was there for
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its first night, welcoming people
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back.
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Bob Woody doesn't usually sit
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outside Buford's on weekend nights.
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He's normally busy with one of the
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other 20 bars he owns in downtown
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Austin.
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Nice to see you, sir.
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Thank you for coming back.
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But Friday night, he wanted to thank
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people for showing up to Buford's
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the first day it was back open.
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Hi Sergio, how are you?
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Thank you for coming down, okay?
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Less than a week earlier, this place
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was in chaos.
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A man drove by the bar, shooting
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people on the patio.
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Then he returned on foot,
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continuing his rampage.
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Three people died, Savita
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Shan, Ryder Harrington, and
12:26
George Peterson.
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More than a dozen others were
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injured.
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As of Thursday, two people are still
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in the hospital.
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Since that night, hundreds of
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electric candles and flower bouquets
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have piled up outside the bar.
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The further we get from it, the
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better we'll be. The more normal we
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work our way towards, the faster
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we get there.
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But you got to do things to help,
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and you have to stand up.
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I mean, there is no rule book on
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how to do this.
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After the shooting, Woody says his
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employees spent several days
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reflecting together.
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They made the decision to reopen as
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a team.
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Many staffers needed to get back to
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work to pay their bills.
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At a meeting this week, I said, do
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y'all want to reopen?
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They raised their hands.
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I had one that wasn't ready,
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but she's going to come back, just
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not yet.
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And that's fine.
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Before reopening, Woody says he
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worked with the city to get more
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police on the streets around the
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bar.
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And he says from now on, the city
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will barricade Rio Grande from 6th
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Street to 7th Street from 10 p.m.
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To 4 a.m., on Fridays and Saturdays,
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so first responders have easy access
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to the bar.
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Woody is also working on installing
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protective glass along the beer
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garden.
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One hundred percent of the sales
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from Friday, Saturday and Sunday
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will go to the victims and their
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families. Early Friday night,
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Woody said he had already raised
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over $10,000.
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Inside the bar, people were eager
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to get back to normal.
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I met Spencer Bishop and Sage Casey
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while they were playing a round of
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pool near the beer garden.
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For Bishop, coming to his favorite
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bar was uncomplicated.
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We heard they opened at 6, and
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it's one of our favorite bars.
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Come here all the time, so wanted to
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definitely come support.
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6 PM open and play some pool like
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we normally do, like an everyday
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thing.
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Casey grew up in Boston.
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He says he was very near the Boston
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Marathon bombings in 2013.
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He says after the city took a beat
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to recover,
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Everybody showed back up on Boylston
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and Boston to show that, like,
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that's not something that you
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don't allow those things to make you
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afraid of going to your favorite
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places on earth, you
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know? So I feel like that's very
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important for us to be here tonight
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to show this is our
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place and we're not going to
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be afraid.
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Ishar Tal is having a beer inside.
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He's from Israel.
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And he says he's seen many shootings
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in his hometown.
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The goal of violence like
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that is specifically to make you
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fear to go out, make you afraid,
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make your scared, make you cave
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to the demands or whatever, disrupt
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your life.
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You cannot let that happen.
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If we stopped
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our life every time something like
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that happened, we wouldn't have the
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life to live.
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When Buford announced it was
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reopening, some people's initial
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reactions on social media were
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negative.
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Some people were surprised the bar
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would ever reopen.
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But Dan Weinstock, a 6th Street
15:13
regular, says closing permanently
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would only compound the tragedy.
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He went to Bufords on Friday to
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support the staff.
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I think it's really important to
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come back and support them after
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such a traumatic event and not to
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bring it up, not to talk to them,
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not ask them what that night was
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like for them but just to be like a
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comforting familiar face.
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He says being a familiar face says
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something important to staff,
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that he's not afraid to be there
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with them.
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I'm Katy McAfee in Austin.
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And we have continuing coverage from
15:42
the KUT newsroom and the
15:44
Austin Current at KUT.org.
15:48
You can find more from us on the Kut
15:50
app as well.
15:52
Coming up here on Austin Signal,
15:54
it is right about that time
15:56
where South by Southwest comes
15:58
over and takes over Austin,
16:00
and we're going to talk a little bit
16:02
about the music offerings
16:03
that we're gonna be providing.
16:05
Thanks to our sister station KUTX,
16:08
lots of great options.
16:09
Come hear about them after this
16:11
break. You're listening to
16:12
community-powered public radio.
16:14
This is KUT News and this is
16:17
Austin Signal.
16:29
Welcome back, this is Austin
16:31
Signal. Well, after a few days of
16:33
rain in March, the forecasted
16:35
weather for Austin this Thursday is
16:36
sunny skies with a high right around
16:38
70.
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That can mean only one thing, the
16:41
start of South by Southwest.
16:43
For more about the happenings our
16:44
sister station KUTX will have going
16:47
on starting this weekend, we're
16:48
joined by Matt Riley, Program
16:50
Director at KUTx, howdy Matt.
16:52
Hi, Jerry.
16:52
Thanks for coming on the show and.
16:55
I only have you for a few minutes
16:56
and you all have a lot going on,
16:58
so let's start with Schultz
17:00
Garden that's starting on Thursday.
17:02
What's happening out there?
17:03
Yeah. So we're going to be there
17:04
three mornings, eight to noon,
17:06
and we're going to kick things off
17:07
Thursday morning and it's
17:09
four acts each day.
17:11
They're getting 30 minute sets and
17:13
$10 at the door gets you in.
17:15
And that money goes directly to the
17:16
central Texas food bank.
17:18
So we are helping out our neighbors
17:19
in need and so
17:21
big props to
17:23
our booker, Deidre Gott, she
17:25
has been busy for the last few
17:27
months putting all of these
17:28
showcases together.
17:30
But we've got acts from all over
17:32
the world and Austin at Schultz.
17:34
So Australia, Argentina,
17:36
Indonesia, England,
17:38
Kansas, yeah, I mean,
17:40
name it, almost, it's there.
17:43
But yeah, these are always really
17:45
great showcases because they get to
17:47
stretch out a little bit at 30
17:48
minutes.
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And this is a really great way
17:51
to experience South by Southwest
17:53
if you've never done it.
17:54
You don't want to go downtown,
17:55
because this is just at Schultz Beer
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Garden, right here up by campus
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and by the Capitol, so
18:01
parking's not that big of a deal.
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And so if you'd like to come get
18:04
breakfast with us and see some of
18:06
the best acts from all over the
18:07
world, this is the great way get
18:08
into it.
18:09
And that Schultz garden showcases
18:12
a showcase sort of international
18:14
flair, right? But over at the
18:15
Rivian, it's gonna be a little bit
18:17
more Austin focused.
18:18
Yeah, so Friday, Saturday, and
18:19
Sunday, we're doing a day party at
18:21
Rivian down at their showroom
18:23
on South Congress, just across the
18:25
bridge there.
18:26
And so we're going all
18:28
Austin for this one.
18:29
This one's 100% free, open
18:31
to the public. It's from two to five
18:33
each afternoon, Friday, Sunday,
18:35
and Saturday.
18:36
And so if you're going to be down
18:37
there anyway exploring, swing on
18:39
by because we've got really great
18:41
Austin acts lined up for
18:43
you. And we thought, you know.
18:45
If we're gonna throw this big party,
18:46
let's make it Austin music
18:48
experience style.
18:49
Let's really showcase our
18:51
talent here in town because we're
18:53
going to have a lot of people from
18:54
all over the world in that
18:54
neighborhood.
18:56
So we want to make sure to give them
18:57
as big of a stage as possible.
18:59
Once again, it's free, bring the
19:00
kids.
19:02
And I saw that the Rivian is kicking
19:03
off with Next of Kin.
19:04
Next of Ken has been featured a few
19:05
times here on Austin Signal.
19:07
So our listeners are certainly
19:09
familiar with that band and lots
19:10
of others performing there.
19:12
Speaking of focusing on Austin,
19:15
tell us about Austin Sounds.
19:16
Is that a new event?
19:18
So this is.
19:19
Sort of morphed over the years.
19:20
It used to be the big Auditorium
19:22
Shores shows, and then now we're
19:24
partnering with the City of Austin.
19:26
And it's basically
19:28
another way to showcase
19:30
Austin talent, but it's sort of
19:32
genre-specific by night, and
19:34
it's happening at Lefty's Brick Bar
19:36
down there on East 6th Street.
19:38
And so each night kind of has its
19:40
own theme, and our very
19:42
own hip-hop show, The Breaks,
19:44
will be having their own night on
19:46
Friday night, And that's going to be
19:48
the great.
19:49
A great lineup of soul, R&B,
19:51
hip-hop, and so once
19:53
again, this is totally open to the
19:54
public and our own DJ Shawnee will
19:56
be on hand to provide music as well.
19:58
So if you're looking to really get
20:00
into a lot of free things,
20:03
things that might not be super
20:04
crowded, I don't think anything's
20:06
going to be that crowded, honestly.
20:07
Why do you say that?
20:09
Those days have kind
20:11
of passed. Like the days where
20:13
it's just mobbed.
20:15
I don't think that happens.
20:17
That's certainly not happened in the
20:18
last, well, since COVID.
20:21
And so I think
20:22
everything's gonna be pretty
20:23
accessible as long as you're willing
20:25
to ride share and to
20:26
take public transportation and not
20:28
worry about parking.
20:29
Get down there because it's very
20:31
accessible and a lot of this stuff
20:33
is free and totally up.
20:34
You don't need a badge, as we like
20:36
to say, no badge, no problem.
20:37
Is that the case for all the K-U-T-X
20:39
events as well?
20:40
Yeah, you don't need to.
20:40
As well okay yeah you don't need any sort of
20:41
credentials and then um
20:42
just the ten dollars for the schultz
20:44
garden that's uh... Because that's
20:45
going to the central texas yeah
20:46
Yeah, and then at Rivian, they're
20:47
going to be on hand collecting
20:48
donations as well, so we want to
20:50
have a good showing for them.
20:52
And then Monday,
20:54
down at the Downright Hotel,
20:56
which used to be the Sheraton on
20:58
11th, that is
21:01
the music hub of South by
21:03
Southwest this year, because there's
21:04
no convention center, so each
21:06
track has its own hub.
21:08
And so the music club is at the
21:09
right hotel and we're going to have
21:11
the radio day stage from noon to
21:13
five on Monday,
21:15
also free open to the public.
21:17
It's just there in the backyard of
21:18
the hotel.
21:19
And Deidre once again has booked an
21:21
amazing international lineup.
21:22
And so you're going to get sounds
21:24
from all over the world.
21:24
And we're going partner with some of
21:25
our public radio pals from around
21:27
the country on that one.
21:28
Okay, we only have about 30 seconds
21:29
left.
21:30
Any other advice?
21:31
I mean, you gave me advice a few
21:32
years ago, which was just to get
21:34
out and get you work.
21:36
I think I was expressing that I was
21:37
a little concerned about having to
21:39
pay to get in or being overwhelmed
21:40
and you just said, just get out
21:42
there, dude. Just go have some fun.
21:44
Yeah, I mean, there's so much
21:45
free stuff.
21:47
And all of our stuff is
21:49
free or low cost.
21:51
And you don't need any kind of
21:53
credentials.
21:54
I don't think it's, again,
21:55
I don't think it' going to be
21:56
mobbed.
21:58
Especially our stuff, as always, you
21:59
know, we're pretty accommodating.
22:00
We always try to get as many people
22:01
in as we can.
22:03
And we want everybody to come party
22:05
with us. So this is just, this
22:07
is our version of Mardi Gras, as I
22:08
like to say. All right.
22:09
You know, this part is his core to
22:11
Austin, so get into it.
22:13
If you want to.
22:14
All right, that is Matt Reilly, the
22:15
program director for KUTX.
22:17
You can find more information and
22:19
some set times for the events we
22:20
talked about today in our podcast
22:21
show notes and at kutx.org.
22:25
Matt, happy South By.
22:26
Back at you.
22:27
And to you out there, Austin Signal
22:29
is doing South By Big this year.
22:31
We are doing a live show this
22:32
Thursday.
22:33
At Schultz Garden, it's gonna be a
22:35
one-hour special.
22:36
We're gonna be talking to some
22:37
people from the movies
22:39
and from the music and from foods,
22:42
all free.
22:43
Come join us one o'clock this
22:45
Thursday at Scholz Garden.
22:46
We'll have more information at
22:48
kut.org.
22:49
This is Austin Signal.
22:51
I'm your host, Jerry Kihono.
22:52
We will talk to you tomorrow.