Minutes after I sent off a letter of my own to Mission city hall demanding the tape of Eddie Saenz’s DWI arrest (see here for background on why), Chris Davis of Cafe Brownsville called to say that the city agreed yesterday to give him the DVD of the dashboard camera footage.

Davis said he had decided to give his request one more shot, and faxed the state Attorney General his records and evidence that Mission wasn’t responding to his letter asking for the tape.

An AG rep called to say they’d talked to someone at the city, and the city secretary have it for him in a week.

“I don’t know what happened, but they jumped,” Davis said.

David Guerra, the city’s attorney, still will not give any word on why it wasn’t provided earlier (and the city manager’s out of town today). A political hold on the request could have come from a number of directions (none of them legal of course). But tomorrow, Davis will be dropping by a copy of the tape, and maybe it will contain answers.

If there aren’t answers forthcoming, I’ll file a new information request for e-mails, memos or records related to the decision to withhold the tape.

(photo courtesy tianchua )

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