SOUTH REGION INTEL REPORT FOR TEXAS AND LOUISIANA: 12 AUGUST 2020

TEXAS

Activists are conducting an aggressive online campaign to get speakers to show up to the Austin City Council meeting on Wednesday.

SITREP: The Austin City Council is voting on a police funding bill that would gut the department by 34%. However, activists are hoping to increase the cut to 50% with a goal of total abolition in four years. To that end, they have been enlisting as many leftist speakers as possible to address the council.

The city council is located at 301 W. 2nd Street Ste 1120 Austin, Texas, 78701. The hearing is scheduled to take place from 1000-1200.

RECOMMENDATION: Though this is a hearing, and not an official protest. Though, given how important defunding the police is to the left and the large amount of demonstrators and activists who are already in the area, it is highly likely that Antifa/BLM will stage some form of demonstration to coincide with the hearing.
The recommendation is to avoid the area surrounding the Austin City Council.

PROTEST ADVISORY: AUSTIN, TEXAS

There are daily anti-police and Black Lives Matter protests scheduled to take place in Austin, Texas.

SITREP: The daily protests are scheduled to run from 10 August until at least 17 August. The demonstrations will begin at 1800 and continue to at least 0000.

The protests will be focused on Austin Police Department headquarters located at 715 E. 8th Street, and the Capitol Building located at 1100 Congress Avenue.

RECOMMENDATION: Avoid the APD headquarters and Capitol Building from 10 August through 17 August.

There are no known protests planned for Louisiana at this time.