Tobias Funke said:

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You honestly think that's the heart of the issue?

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Tobias Funke said:

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To steer this suburb vs city pissing contest back to the original subject...


Apparently the Thursday "you have to leave" deadline came and went, and the group is still there this morning. Hopefully the city doesn't think that putting up eviction notice signs is going to just make this group just up and leave on their own.

Really interested to see how this plays out. The more I read about their "cause" and what prompted all of this, the more full of crap they are.

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Apache said:

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The homeless and other random troublemakers are a lot like Covid, blown way TF outta proportion

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Respectfully disagree. Have you seen the tremendous amount of trash they generate on our city streets & greenspaces? How they defecate & use drugs on the sides of the road in broad daylight?
Are you aware of the amount of theft & vandalism that goes on around their camps? The general harassment of regular folks just going about their business?
I've been approached & threatened, as has my wife & numerous friends.

I occasionally work with business to provide security solutions & there has been a major boom all along the Ben White corridor for me. From Oak Hill all the way to 183. Lights, Cameras (no not hollywood) and 10' tall chain link with razor wire. If it isn't nailed down, they'll steal it.

Just wait until downtown opens back up & people go back to work and play downtown. It's a setup for trouble. The conflict is going to get worse before it gets better. Hope I'm wrong, but I doubt it.

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Keeper of The Spirits said:

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These are run of the mill austinites these are instigators.

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On Sunday, February 14th, 400+1's L1 Collective led an eleven mile car procession around the perimeter of what is now 400+1 protected territory, renaming the area Orisha Land, and rejecting the state's authority within it.

Orisha Land is a zone in East Austin, the eleven mile perimeter of which is formed by Manor Rd., 51st Street, Springdale Rd., 7th Street, I-35, Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., and Franklin St.

Jordan's Place, the capital of Orisha Land and formerly known as Rosewood Park, is located at 2300 Rosewood Avenue, on the side of the park closest to Pleasant Valley.

400+1's action came as a response to the fatal shooting of Jordan Walton, a 21 year old Black youth who was murdered by Austin Police Department while experiencing a mental health crisis on Wednesday, February 10th.

On the day he was murdered, Jordan's parents utilized the mental health crisis resources provided by the state to no avail.

No tangible assistance was offered to them and, instead, Jordan was shot dead by police officers while his brother and father looked on.

400+1 demands justice for Jordan through a complete and total abolition of the state, of police, and of capitalism; institutions and systems that were ultimately to blame for Jordan's death.

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Austin police have identified a man an officer fatally shot last month during a hostage standoff as 21-year-old Jordan Walton.

Officers on Feb. 10 responded at around 5:18 p.m. to a 911 call about a black Jeep that had crashed into a house at the intersection of Rogge Lane and Manor Road. The caller said a man walked away from the scene of the crash, police said.

At 5:21 p.m., a 911 caller said someone had broken into their home on Rogge Lane. When officers responded to the home, police heard a disturbance and forced their way inside
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This is when police said Walton shot at officers. Police fired back and Austin police SWAT officers were called to the scene.

Police said Walton then left the home while holding a child hostage. An Austin police SWAT officer shot Walton and he was pronounced dead at the scene. The child and a woman inside the home were uninjured.

The two officers involved in the shooting have not been identified by police. Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said the patrol officer who first responded to the call and fired at Walton has been with the Police Department for eight years. The SWAT officer who fatally shot Walton has been with the department for 13 years.

Both were placed on administrative leave, which is the Police Department's standard protocol for shootings that involve officers.

The incident was captured on police body worn cameras. In May, Manley signed a policy that says police will release video from shootings involving officers within 60 days of the incident.

A criminal investigation by the Austin police Special Investigations Unit in conjunction with the Travis County district attorney's office will be conducted. An administrative investigation managed by the Austin police Internal Affairs Unit will also be conducted with oversight from the Office of Police Oversight.

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Keeper of The Spirits said:

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Are we supposed to decide for ourselves here? I don't think anyone on this thread is voicing support for Orisha

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