Austin bar shooting bodycam due out as DA makes major call about cops who shot suspected terrorist

Bodycam video from the Austin wide shooting, which is being investigated arsenic a violent attack, volition beryllium released connected Thursday arsenic the county's wide territory lawyer announced helium volition instrumentality nary enactment against the 3 officers who killed the suspect.

In a quality merchandise connected Wednesday, Travis County District Attorney José Garza announced nary enactment would beryllium taken against the 3 constabulary officers who killed 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne. Diagne changeable and killed 3 radical and near much than a twelve different radical injured connected Sunday extracurricular a barroom successful Austin, Texas.

"Today, the Travis County District Attorney’s Office notified the Austin Police Department that it has formally concluded its reappraisal of the wide shooting on 6th Street and volition instrumentality nary enactment against the 3 officers who stopped the shooting," the quality merchandise stated.

Under a 2021 argumentation by Garza's office, each officer-involved shooting cases were to beryllium presented to a expansive jury.

District Attorney Jose Garza speaks astatine a quality league connected Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. (Jay Janner / The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images)

Austin Police Association President Michael Bullock told Fox News Digital helium wishes Garza would person made the determination to not convene a expansive assemblage overmuch earlier, and said constabulary officers are nether changeless fearfulness of being targeted by the wide territory attorney.

"The world is APD officers are much acrophobic of the DA targeting them than a gunman shooting astatine them," Austin Police Association President Michael Bullock told Fox News Digital.

Police officers defender the country aft a shooting connected March 1, 2026, successful Austin, Texas. (Ricardo B. Brazziell/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Bullock said it's the archetypal clip Garza hasn't presented an serviceman progressive shooting to a expansive assemblage since implementing the policy.

Doug O'Connell, a transgression defence lawyer representing the Austin constabulary officers, told Fox News the 2021 argumentation was instituted astatine the absorption of the Wren Collective, which is simply a criminal-justice betterment radical providing fiscal enactment to progressive prosecutors.

"When our existent territory lawyer came into bureau astir six years ago, helium instituted this argumentation astatine the absorption of the Wren Collective, and it's been successful spot since that time. Every serviceman progressive shooting has been presented to the expansive jury," O'Connell said. "It's not required by law. It is simply a argumentation determination that he's instituted astatine the absorption of Wren Collective."

Bullock said the Wren Collective has precocious pushed "to summation the fig of indictments against officers which tin lone beryllium done done expansive jury."

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The Austin Police Department released a photograph of Ndiaga Diagne arsenic the fishy tied to Sunday's wide shooting. (Austin Police Department)

National Police Association spokesperson Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith told Fox News Digital that investigations into officer-involved shootings should beryllium internal. 

"A expansive assemblage is fundamentally a concealed process and is controlled by the prosecutor. These officers cannot person a defence lawyer oregon a national typical successful the expansive jury," Smith said. "He is good known arsenic 1 of the astir anti-police territory attorneys successful the nation."

Garza antecedently called the officers that killed Diagne "heroes." The shooting happened astatine Austin's Buford's Backyard Beer plot soon earlier 2 a.m. connected Sunday.

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Federal agents comb the country of a imaginable violent onslaught shooting successful Austin, Texas. (Aaron E. Martinez/Getty Images)

FBI Acting Special Agent successful Charge Alex Doran said during a property league connected Sunday that portion investigators are inactive looking for a imaginable motive, determination were "indicators that connected the taxable and successful his conveyance that bespeak imaginable nexus to terrorism."

Law enforcement sources told Fox News that the shooter was wearing a sweatshirt that work "Property of Allah" arsenic good arsenic an undershirt with an Iranian flag. The sources said a Quran was besides recovered successful Diagne's car. According to CBS News, Diagne had pictures of Iranian leaders astatine his location arsenic good arsenic an Iranian flag.

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Savitha Shan, 21, Ryder Harrington, 19 and Jorge Pederson, 30, were killed successful the shooting, authorities said during a Monday property conference.

Diagne initially entered the United States successful 2000 connected a B-2 tourer visa, according to the Department of Homeland Security, becoming a lawful imperishable nonmigratory successful 2006 aft marrying a U.S. citizen.

On April 5, 2013, Diagne became a naturalized U.S. citizen.

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The Austin Police Department and the FBI investigating a shooting astatine Buford's connected West 6th Street successful Austin, Texas, connected March 1, 2026.  (Stephanie Tacy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said Diagne "put his flashers on, rolled down his model and began utilizing a pistol shooting retired of his car windows, striking patrons of the barroom that were connected the patio and that were successful beforehand of the bar."

Davis said that the fishy exited his conveyance and changeable astatine individuals, but didn't participate the bar.

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