Three years after George Floyd was murdered by a police officer, Floyd's legacy has essentially been reversed in Texas. Instead of pushing for more oversight of police, Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas Republicans are cracking down on large protests and strengthening legal protections for officers who do wrong.
“I think we are in legislative hell,” said Ashton P. Woods, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter in Houston. “This is basically them weaponizing our work against us.”
In the days and weeks after Floyd, a longtime Houston resident, was killed by police in Minneapolis, Republicans and Democrats nationwide called for laws to keep bad cops off the street and for better training to prevent a repeat of what happened to Floyd.
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