An email to Austin City Council, in support of reforming Austin Police Department

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To: steve.adler@austintexas.gov, spencer.cronk@austintexas.gov, natasha.madison@austintexas.gov, Delia.Garza@austintexas.gov, Sabino.Renteria@austintexas.gov, Gregorio.Casar@austintexas.gov, Ann.Kitchen@austintexas.gov, Jimmy.Flannigan@austintexas.gov, Leslie.Pool@austintexas.gov, Paige.Ellis@austintexas.gov, Kathie.Tovo@austintexas.gov, Alison.Alter@austintexas.gov

6/7/20 — #JusticeForThemAll march with Austin Justice Coalition and Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas; Photo by Amanda Ryan

To City Manager Cronk, Mayor Adler, and members of Austin City Council:

My name is Nathan Ryan. I am writing to you in my personal capacity as a resident of Austin, Texas, District 2.

Whether it is homelessness, incarceration, housing, income level, home ownership, likelihood of dying from COVID-19, maternal mortality or police brutality, Black Americans are disproportionately on the least-forgiving end of those spectrums, their communities most greatly affected since slavery reached the North American continent over 400 years ago in 1619. These outcomes are systemic.

What has prompted this current outcry is recent a series of horrific murders of…