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Judge Sid Harle ordered Judge Stephanie Boyd of the 187th District Court recused from the high-profile trial of three former San Antonio police officers. Harle agreed with the defense attorneys who argued her impartiality was in doubt.

Former SAPD officer James Brennand, who shot Cantu multiple times, is currently awaiting trial over two counts of aggravated assault.

The San Antonio Police Department acknowledged that MHU officers spend time training other officers and fielding calls from the intelligence-gathering Southwest Texas Fusion Center.

The mural includes a list of names of the people who have died in police interactions along with images of Baltasar Rodriguez, who died in 2021 and whose friends designed the mural.

16.5% of SAPD’s 97 police shootings in the seven-year period were of Black San Antonians. Black residents made up roughly 7% of the city’s population during the period.

Questions remain on how the city’s police force polices itself. TPR obtained the officers’ performance evaluations and compared them with disciplinary records. One expert told TPR the disparity between the documents was 'alarming.'

Three SAPD officers were charged with murder after shooting and killing Melissa Perez in her apartment in June. Perez had schizophrenia; now, families of others with severe mental illnesses worry their loved ones are at risk too.

The review of Johnson’s autopsy report came 16 months after he was shot and killed by SAPD officers during an attempted arrest.

Johnson was killed by SAPD officers last March. His mother, Arlene Garcia, said she’s tried to view her son’s autopsy for over a year without success. Now, she has the chance.

Arlene Garcia says she was promised Kevin Johnson’s autopsy in a March 29 meeting, but when she arrived she was told they didn’t have it.