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Federico Garza, Jr. accepted the position of permanent Police Chief at last Tuesday’s Eagle Lake City Council meeting.
After council unanimously voted to accept the ordinance for the position of Police Chief, City Manager Melissa Landin appointed Garza to the position.
Garza has served as interim Chief for the department since October 2020.
Garza is a long-tenured law enforcement officer, having served as chief deputy of the Webb County Sheriff’s Office until 2019.
He is also a military veteran having served in Vietnam.
Earlier this month, it was confirmed that an investigation by the Texas Rangers has been opened on the Eagle Lake Police Department at the request of Garza.
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By American-Statesman Editorial Board
Michael Ramos raised his hands, lifted his shirt and declared he had no gun. Austin police officers shot him anyway first with a bean bag round, and then, as Ramos tried to flee, with the bullets that took his life.
“That’s wrong! That’s wrong!” a woman cried out in a bystander video of the April 2020 shooting. We agreed then. A Travis County grand jury agrees now.
This week’s indictment of Officer Christopher Taylor for first-degree murder brings an anguished community one step closer to accountability for a death that never should have happened. Ramos, a 42-year-old Black and Latino man, found himself surrounded by eight police officers at a Southeast Austin apartment complex after a 911 caller reported, incorrectly, that Ramos was handling a gun. He was, in fact, unarmed.
The bill would create uniform state laws surrounding bodycam footage and require de-escalation training. It was filed a day after an Austin police officer was charged in Ramos' fatal shooting.