Three Austin cops sprinted toward rifle fire Saturday night and stopped a terrorist from killing more college kids.
Austin’s DA had something waiting for them when they got back to the station.
And it has nothing to do with a medal.
Jose Garza Has Sent 94 Austin Police Cases to a Grand Jury Since 2021
José Garza – Travis County District Attorney – took office in January 2021 bankrolled by more than $400,000 from the Soros network, and he arrived with an agenda.
Every single time an Austin officer fires his weapon – at a rapist, a carjacker, a knife-wielding attacker, or a terrorist murdering someone outside a bar – Garza hauls them before a grand jury.
Every case goes to a grand jury. Justified or not. Terrorist stopped or not.
Mayor Kirk Watson himself said the officers who stopped Ndiaga Diagne – the Senegalese immigrant who opened fire on a packed Austin bar – saved lives. Garza doesn't care.
The policy runs automatically, directed by a radical group called the Wren Collective, and it grinds on regardless of the facts.
Since January 2021, Garza has run at least 94 officer-involved cases through grand juries in Travis County.
In a Texas grand jury room, the only person present is the prosecutor.
He decides what evidence the jury sees and what gets buried.
As Doug O'Connell – the attorney representing the three officers at the request of the Austin Police Association – put it bluntly: "Grand juries in Texas are secret, meaning only the prosecutors are in the room. The prosecutors control what evidence the grand jury sees, and they have no obligation to present exculpatory evidence."
That's the room these three officers are headed into.
How Garza Used a Grand Jury to Send Officer Christopher Taylor to Prison
Officer Christopher Taylor responded to a mental health call in 2019 and shot a man charging him with a knife.
Garza started with a murder charge, then retreated to deadly conduct when the murder case fell apart.
Taylor was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison.
A Texas appeals court then looked at the actual evidence and threw the conviction out entirely – ruling no reasonable jury could have found him guilty.
Garza's response to an innocent man being freed wasn't remorse.
He attacked the judges who freed him.
"The conservative Amarillo-based 7th Court of Appeals judges think they know better than the Travis County jurors," Garza said.
That's the man now steering the case against the officers who kept Saturday's body count from being ten, or twenty, or thirty.
Texas state Rep. Mitch Little announced immediately that he's pursuing legislation, calling for a cultural reset.
The Texas Legislature spent all of 2025 passing a bill to exempt officers from deadly conduct charges for actions taken in the line of duty – the exact charge Garza used to imprison Taylor.
That reform passed.
Garza's grand jury pipeline is still running.
The George Soros Network That Funds Anti-Police DAs Across America
Austin's problem isn't an accident.
George Soros has spent over $50 million installing prosecutors like Garza in cities across America – men whose job is to treat police officers like criminals and criminals like victims.
The results have been the same everywhere this playbook runs.
Philadelphia saw homicides jump 78 percent in four years after a Soros-backed DA took over.
Los Angeles voters recalled Soros-funded DA George Gascón after years of early releases and gutted sentences for violent offenders.
Austin has been living this disaster since 2021.
Three officers who ran toward a rifle-wielding terrorist are now living it personally.
The FBI is actively investigating Saturday's shooting as a potential act of terrorism.
The gunman wore an Iranian flag t-shirt under his "Property of Allah" sweatshirt and opened fire the day after the United States and Israel struck Iran.
These officers didn't just stop a mass shooting.
They stopped a terrorist attack.
Their reward is a secret proceeding where José Garza – funded by George Soros, directed by the Wren Collective, undefeated in his contempt for the men and women who protect Austin – decides what the jury gets to hear.
Those officers deserve a parade down Congress Avenue.
Instead they're getting José Garza.
Sources:
- Aaron Ryan, "Heroic Austin Police Officers Who Took Down Mass Shooter Will Be Forced To Face Grand Jury Hearing By Austin DA," Whiskey Riff, March 3, 2026.
- "Austin Officers to Face Grand Jury After Deadly Rampage," Independent Journal Review, March 3, 2026.
- "Soros-funded Texas DA accused of evading court order, grand jury to charge police officer," Fox News, February 9, 2023.
- "Travis County grand jury declines to indict four Austin officers in 2024 fatal shooting," CBS Austin, February 5, 2026.
- "No indictment for Austin officers involved in 2024 deadly shooting," Fox 7 Austin, February 5, 2026.
- "Texas lawmakers want to exempt police from deadly conduct charges," U.S. News & World Report, April 28, 2025.
- "Family of murdered TX man says Soros DA ignored their wishes, cut deals with suspects," Fox News, October 10, 2022.
