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Austin police patrol in Austin during George Floyd protests

Police officers indicted over actions during protests sue Austin

SNEHA DEY, Texas Tribune
June 1, 2022
A protestor wearing rainbow earrings holds a small rainbow flag in front of her face as she drinks from a glass.

Pride Month celebrations return; LGBTQ community honors history (Q&A)

OWEN HENDERSON, Southwest Journalist
June 1, 2022
Women walk near Lakeshore Boulevard in Austin with the skyline in the background in 2016. The Texas capital became the largest American city to challenge its 2020 U.S. Census Bureau figures by filing an appeal with the bureau in May 2022. The city claims it has more than the 961,855 residents counted during the nations once-a-decade head count.

Austin argues Census left out 7,000 households from 2020 count (Infographic)

MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press
June 1, 2022
A rainbow flag is raised in Daley Plaza on June 1 to mark the beginning of Pride Month in Chicago.

Austin Pride offers month-long festivities to celebrate LGBTQ community

CALEIGH BARTASH, The Southwest Journalist
June 1, 2021
Protesters and police.

Texas police, city leaders respond to George Floyd protests (Gallery)

Compiled from Associated Press and Texas Tribune reports
May 31, 2020
A police officer stands guard as Austin Fire Department puts out a car fire under Interstate 35 in Austin May 30 during a protest over the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who died in Minneapolis police custody.

Gov. Greg Abbott declares state of disaster after George Floyd protests (Video)

ALEX SAMUELS, Texas Tribune
May 31, 2020
Austin police protest

Protests erupt locally at Austin Capitol following Minneapolis police killing (Gallery)

Associated Press
May 30, 2020
man speaking

War hero tells MIT graduates they’re the ‘real heroes’

COLLIN BINKLEY, Associated Press
May 30, 2020
DJNF Texas interns and staff

Dow Jones News Fund interns complete training, head for work sites (Video)

Corey Keenan
June 1, 2017
ICE

Travis County program to delay victim, witness deportations

Payton Potter
May 31, 2017
Protesters inside Texas Capitol

Passions run high over Texas ‘sancturary city’ bill (Storify)

Kyle Brown
May 30, 2017
Protester Pedro Paredes

Legislature Update: Immigration tensions ignite skirmish at Texas Capitol (Photo Gallery)

Kyle Brown
May 30, 2017
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