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“It’s becoming a disturbingly familiar scene in America - mentally unstable cops”

“It’s becoming a disturbingly familiar scene in America - mentally unstable cops”
“It’s becoming a disturbingly familiar scene in America - mentally unstable cops”

Some Austin police officers publicly suspended, quietly reinstated


By Ciara O'Rourke and Tony Plohetski

Late one night last August, a state trooper arrested Austin police officer Ricardo Zapata after smelling alcohol during a traffic stop. Zapata was also slurring, according to Austin Police Department records, and he nearly fell over while getting out of his car. The trooper charged him with drunken driving, and a blood sample later found his blood alcohol content was more than twice the legal limit.

Four months ago, Police Chief Art Acevedo fired Zapata, and, in a publicly released letter of suspension, declared that Zapata could no longer be on the force because he had failed to act responsibly and had destroyed the community’s confidence in the department’s goals of combating DWI.