When the shooting stopped, protesters helped the men limp back to Talley’s SUV, three blocks away. A friend he’d been standing next to, Modesto Rodriguez, was shot in the ankle and ribs. Then I'd be blind on top of this.”Īs he lay in the street in the fetal position, Talley was shot 10 more times in the ankles, legs, arms, and back. I tried to protect my eyes - as a deaf person they’re so critically important to me. “And then my eyes were closed and just kept going. “That's when I fell down on the ground,” Talley told the Chronicle through an interpreter. A second later, another round hit Talley in the groin. A bean bag round had been fired at his head by a still-unidentified officer standing on the steps of the APD plaza, missing his eye by an inch. Without warning, Talley felt something hit his ear. At about 9pm on the evening of May 30, he and several deaf friends were milling among hundreds of other demonstrators on the blocked frontage road facing APD headquarters, chatting in American Sign Language. Talley, a 27-year-old Black and deaf Austinite, attended the protests out of curiosity. With attention returning to these allegations of misconduct, stories like that of Tyree Talley are resurfacing. Nearly a dozen of the most seriously injured survivors are suing the city of Austin, and while the Travis County District Attorney’s Office prepares to present cases to a grand jury, the Office of Police Oversight and justice advocates have loudly decried APD Internal Affairs’ handling, or not handling, of the complaints detailed in the lawsuits. They beat and gassed protesters and shot dozens with “less lethal” munitions, such as lead-pellet “bean bag” rounds. 8th Street that at times spilled onto I-35, with violence intended as riot control.
Thus, APD responded to the demonstrations, particularly those near its headquarters at E. To the Austin Police Department, the thousands of people who gathered Downtown to protest for Black lives over the weekend of May 30-31, 2020, were rioters. "Bean bag rounds" - mesh bags filled with lead pellet shot - are classified as "less lethal" munitions but caused life-altering injuries to a dozen people wounded by APD fire during the May 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.
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