"A BLACK LEADER QUESTIONS, ‘HAVEN’T WE TALKED ENOUGH?’"

By Juan Castillo, Austin American-Statesman

You’ll excuse Nelson Linder if his heart is heavy and his mind is weary.

Consoling the families of African-Americans shot and killed by Austin police exacts a toll like that. He’s been doing it for 17 years as president of the Austin NAACP, and on Thursday, Linder found himself in that wrenching situation yet once more, meeting with the family of a woman shot dead by police the night before in South Austin. Officers said she tried to run them over and approached one with a knife. The woman’s pastor said she lived with mental illness.

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