The left-wing district attorney for Travis County, Texas, is under fire for dropping charges against a progressive protest organizer who caused chaos in the Texas House earlier this week.

According to KXAN, District Attorney Jose Garza dropped charges of assaulting a peace officer, resisting arrest, and disrupting a public meeting against Adri Pérez, who was arrested at the state Capitol on Tuesday while protesting against a bill that would prohibit child gender surgery.

Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s office has referred the question of Garza dropping the charges back to the other chamber’s leadership.

“This is a question for the House. The Senate passed SB14 without any issues in the gallery,” his office said. The Texas lieutenant governor presides over the Senate when the legislature is in session.

Garza has a reputation for his office’s lenient treatment of criminals while taking a harsher approach toward the treatment of law enforcement officers.

Garza campaigned on a promise to prosecute police while running for the job. A local news investigation in 2021 found that Garza reduced and dismissed charges against accused offenders at a fast pace – hundreds of cases in just a few months, according to the KVUE report.

Last year, he indicted 19 officers from the Austin Police Department for their roles in quelling the violent 2020 riots following the death of George Floyd, which resulted in significant damage to the Texas Capitol building. Those officers had previously been cleared of wrongdoing by the police department following the riots.

Garza’s office did not respond immediately to Fox’s request for comment on why the charges against Pérez were dropped.