Austin City Council members grilled officials with the city's legal department Thursday.

Many questions remain unanswered about the KeyPoint report on last year's Nathaniel Sanders shooting and the reasoning that led to a massive amount of the review being hidden from the public.

"The direction from the law department and Chief Acevedo was that we be in position to publish as much of the KeyPoint report as we possibly could," City of Austin's law department spokesperson Lee Crawford said.

And until this month, that didn't amount to much.

Thursday, members of the Austin City Council questioned the law department about why so much of the report was redacted last fall.

The law department said the redactions were based on its interpretation of a meet and confer agreement with the Austin Police Association. They said that interpretation didn't allow the release of any unsustained claims against Quintana.

"There's nothing unclear about that meet and confer agreement that has been on the books since 2004 and reaffirmed in 2008," Texas Civil Rights Project spokesperson Jim Harrington said.

Activists and some council members asked why the interpretation changed so much since the 2004 police-involved shooting of Sophia King.

At that time, an independent investigation was released in full.

The law department said the circumstances of the two cases were different.

"The other difference in the Sophia King issue, as I recall, is that we didn't have any disciplinary allegations against Officer Coffey that were not sustained, so there was nothing to exclude or redact," Crawford said.

Council member Bill Spelman pointed to a specific portion of the KeyPoint report that was redacted. It said Officer Quintana was reckless, to the point that he needlessly endangered himself and others.

Spelman said it should not have been redacted because it is a conclusion, and doesn't include evidentiary facts.

The law department said, at the time, it interpreted that portion of the report to relate to an unsustained charge, so it wasn't included.

Even though the complete report is now out, for some members of the community, the damage is done. The city attorney's retirement isn't enough to make things right again they said.

''We want to send you to retirement like your bogus former city attorney. Where is he? He painted y'all a beautiful picture on how this icon was supposed to play out. He hoodwinked you, put you on a ship, drug you out to sea, and now you're sinking in deep water in a sinking ship," New Black Panthers spokesperson Anthony Walker said.