We can’t make it through these next six months without your support.
My husband’s trial has now been pushed back until DECEMBER.
That’s another six months of anxiety for our family.
Another six months of uncertainty and confusion for our kids.
Another six months of wondering whether my husband—the father of my children, the protector of our home, the man who spent his life protecting others—is going to spend years behind bars for doing his job.
I’m sorry. I know this probably isn’t the kind of email you want to open today.
But I don’t know what else to do except speak from my heart.
Because the people who are supposed to stand with law enforcement have abandoned my husband.
If you haven’t heard Chance’s story before, please let me explain.
My husband served with honor in the Austin Police Department.
Back in 2020, Austin was rocked by chaos in the wake of George Floyd’s death. What started as peaceful protests quickly turned violent. Protestors pelted officers with frozen water bottles, rocks, and fireworks. Police vehicles were set on fire. Businesses were looted. A rioter was even caught with a Molotov cocktail.
It was a dangerous, lawless time—and the city was on the verge of collapse.
On the third night of unrest, Chance and his fellow officers were deployed to control a violent, out-of-control mob that had blocked a major highway and surrounded the Austin Police Department’s downtown headquarters.
Chance followed his training and used department-issued beanbag rounds—non-lethal crowd control tools—to protect lives and restore order.
He did exactly what he was trained and trusted to do.
But after a radical new District Attorney, José Garza, was elected, everything changed.
Instead of prosecuting the violent rioters who endangered innocent lives, Garza launched an anti-police crusade—reopening cases against officers like Chance years after the events had passed.
Now my husband is facing felony charges and up to 99 years in prison… for doing his job during one of the most dangerous weekends Austin has ever seen.
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