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The Texas Department of Public Safety on Wednesday released body cam footage showing a traffic stop in Austin, Texas, that led the city to suspend its partnership<\/a> with the agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A report from FOX 7<\/a> on the Sunday-night traffic stop in South Austin detailed a trooper who was accused of pulling a gun on the driver\u2019s 10-year-old son as he tried to exit the vehicle.<\/p>\n

The report caused an uproar among city officials, leading to Mayor Kirk Watson\u2019s announcement that the DPS-APD partnership<\/a> \u2013 which had been created to help the understaffed APD combat rising crime \u2013 was effectively suspended.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Body cam footage reviewed by Fox News Digital shows troopers pursuing a vehicle that pulls into a residential driveway. A door opens on the passenger side and one of the troopers commands him to close the door. The trooper has his gun drawn but has it pointed toward the ground \u2013 not at the driver’s 10-year-old son as was reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The trooper approaches the driver\u2019s side and commands him to close the door as the trooper\u2019s partner approaches. Both troopers keep their guns drawn for a few moments before putting them away.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The first trooper berates the driver for opening the door and attempting to get out of the vehicle during a traffic stop.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“You see lights sir, you don\u2019t exit the vehicle when you see lights on behind you,” the trooper tells the driver, who responds that he had pulled into his own driveway.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tensions appear to cool down and both sides agree to “start over.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The troopers tell the driver \u2013 later identified as Carlos Meza \u2013 he was pulled over for not having a proper license plate. The driver explains that he\u2019s on a “three-month waiting list,” but the trooper says he\u2019s still not allowed to drive the vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The driver then admits that the vehicle is uninsured and that he doesn\u2019t have a license or the title. When the trooper asks what documentation he does have for the vehicle, the driver says: “a lot of tickets.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The driver also admits to “having smoked” in the past three hours and the troopers have him conduct a series of sobriety tests. He tells officers he hadn\u2019t been drinking but appears to be genuinely perplexed when told that possession of marijuana \u2013 regardless of the amount \u2013 is illegal in Texas.<\/p>\n

Meza told FOX 7<\/a> he did not realize he was being pulled over and never would have pulled into his driveway.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Though acknowledging that the troopers weren\u2019t pointing their guns directly at his son \u2013 as had been reported \u2013 he said he believes the fact that they had their weapons out at all is problematic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He spoke positively of the city suspending its partnership with the APD, saying it “makes everybody in Austin feel better.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s suspension came two days after Mayor Watson heaped praise on Texas DPS before doing a complete 180. The mayor told KXAN<\/a> a “troubling incident involving a man and his young son” had been relayed to him, but he appeared not to have seen the body cam footage himself.<\/p>\n

KXAN reported that it showed the mayor the video, but he had stood by his decision to suspend the DPS-APD partnership<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Texas DPS tweeted<\/a> Wednesday evening that it will continue patrols in Austin “as part of its responsibility to protect and serve Texans,” effectively rendering Watson’s decision moot. The Department’s jurisdiction, as one trooper noted several times during the incident with Meza, encompasses the entire state and it answers to Gov. Greg Abbott.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital has made repeated attempts to the mayor’s office for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-dps-video-shows-man-admit-smoking-pot-driving-illegally-refutes-claim-troopers-aimed-guns-child <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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