Once again, tension builds after state police are deployed to a major Texas city

New Texas Department of Public Safety troopers at the Texas Capitol. For the past month, at the request of the Austin Police Department, DPS has largely been patrolling predominantly Latino neighborhoods, state and local officials said Tuesday. (Credit: Bob Daemmrich for The Texas Tribune)

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Similar to tensions Dallas faced four years ago, Austin officials are struggling between two conflicting results of inviting the state’s law enforcement agency to patrol their city streets.