City Manager Marc Ott issued Austin Police Department Chief Art Acevedo a written reprimand on Tuesday, April 26, and docked the chief five days’ pay – roughly $4,000 – for insubordination after Ott received the results of a third-party investigation (by a former city executive in labor relations) and decided that Acevedo used “poor judgment regarding comments made during a pending IA investigation” – the review of Officer Geoffrey Freeman‘s fatal shooting of teenager David Joseph – and regarding his handling of the fallout. Acevedo called the accusations “a series of misunderstandings” in a four-page statement issued Tuesday evening that the Chronicle was just beginning to pore through as this week’s paper went to press. Expect more in next week’s issue.
This article appears in April 29 • 2016.