Art (Acevedo), damn it! watch. (#N of a series)

I know, two updates in one day about Austin’s police chief, but this is too good not to share.

Remember the APD officer who got fired for DWI? The one who shot an 18-year old back in May of last year? Yeah, this guy.

Remember how Chief Acevedo’s firing and promotion decisions keep getting overturned by arbitrators?

Can you guess what’s happened now? Yes. Officer Quintana has been reinstated by the arbitrator.

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7 Responses to “Art (Acevedo), damn it! watch. (#N of a series)”

  1. Earl Cooley III says:
    October 22, 2010 at 1:04 am

    Do you figure they buckled under pressure to avoid an expensive lawsuit?

  2. stainles says:
    October 22, 2010 at 7:33 am

    I guess that depends on what exactly you mean by “they”.

    I have a suspicion that at least part of the reason for the original firing was that the city was trying to settle the lawsuit that the Sanders family had filed, and throwing Quintana off the back of the sled may very well have been part of the settlement. Now that the settlement deal has fallen apart, and there seems to be a great deal of resistance to any kind of settlement, bringing the sled back around to pick up Quintana may be more politically palatable.

    If you’re thinking an expensive lawsuit from Quintana, well, possibly, but that’s why the APD has the union and the arbitration process in the first place…

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