For 25 years, people arrested in Dallas County but not sure why have been protected under more or less the same rule. Dallas cops have three whole business days to figure out what to charge an arrested person with and get the paperwork in, not including the day you were…
As Nicole Guerrero lay alone in a cell, moaning and crying in excruciating pain through the birth of her daughter, she heard the detention officers laugh, she says. “What are y’all going to do with her?” they said, according to a lawsuit Guerrero filed recently against Wichita County. Later, she…
Dallas cops act like terrorists in black communities, at least according to the gadfly speaking to City Council on a recent Wednesday. “Realistically, councilmen and councilwomen, this has reached genocidal proportions,” the man added. Councilman Lee Kleinman decided to let that one go. The gadfly pressed on. “For us in…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 20 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Can Turkyilmaz. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. Somehow a mosquito has sneaked into Jenny Land’s home. This shouldn’t have happened. Land sprayed garlic in…
The 15 dogs that survived an early morning house fire in East Dallas on Tuesday appeared to be well cared for, and other than the two being treated for possible injuries related to the fire, all appear healthy, Dallas Animal Services manager Jody Jones says. A husband and wife lived…
UPDATED OCTOBER 6, 2014: Jason Harrison’s Father Sues Dallas and the Police Officers Who Killed His Son ORIGINAL POST: To neighbors and family, it was obvious that Jason Harrison was mentally ill, even if the legal system kept treating him like someone who wasn’t. The last time his mother called…
On Saturday, when the other, more ordinary candidates for the Texas House of Representatives were probably making campaign calls or hanging out with their lame families, Arlington Republican Tony Tinderholt appeared to be on a bolder mission. Dressed in camouflage gear, Tinderholt posed for three photographs posted to Facebook Saturday…
Last month, after police found a dog dead from a gunshot to the back of the head and abandoned in a cage with her 10 living, still-nursing puppies, Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler gave a general assessment of what went wrong : “We have a people problem,” he said in…
The two Dallas abortion clinics that nearly saw their doors close under the state’s new regulations are remaining open thanks to a settlement with the local hospital that had tried to revoke their admitting privileges. But allegations made by the clinics suggest that it was an aggressive response from anti-abortion…
If an angry homeowner-turned-environmental-activist keeps getting vindicated by research, but all the important government people just ignore it, does the research make a sound? Probably not. Steve Lipsky, the homeowner in Parker County who became famous for being able to set his water on fire after Range Resources started drilling…
When Robert Coleman’s house got egged, he called the University Park police. It was a Saturday night in September 2012. Officers came to the crime scene but found no leads, other than the splattered egg yolk. Coleman realized that his patio umbrella was also missing, according to the police report…
After DeAndre Upshaw repeated his story, this time for the Dallas City Council, about the bouncers at Uptown’s Kung Fu Saloon who appear to discriminate based on race, the City Council had an idea. They could all meet there for happy hour. “You mention about no socks,” Councilman Dwaine Caraway…
U.S. Representative Steve Stockman is the Texas lawmaker who is probably least likely to whip out a joint at the party and share it with everyone. He likes families, straight people, guns and fertilized eggs that might one day become babies. He hates liberals. Not as much as he hates…
Councilman Tennell Atkins wanted the town hall meeting to be done “the right way.” That’s why he asked all his angry constituents to stop talking directly to him and instead write their questions down on little cards. The cards would then be passed to the front of a room, for…
Squad Car Footage from Amy Silverstein on Vimeo. The allegations against the former McKinney Police Department officer are serious: He was driving too fast, with no siren lights on and making a dangerous lane change before crashing into the car of a man who is now suing him. But there’s…
Dallas has thousands of orphaned animals stuck in the shelter system, and a big corporation promised to help save some of them. Beginning last September, a PetSmart store in north Dallas opened up its doors to the Dallas Animal Services department, housing some of its “adoptable” dogs and cats. Every…
Companies accused of poisoning our air and water typically pay a fine then move on, rarely becoming official criminals. If you want to get arrested for spewing something into the air, you’re much better off blowing weed smoke on your front porch than benzene from smoke stacks. But in 2007,…
The group of 100 or so people who demonstrated in person against Kung Fu Saloon this Wednesday had no hard proof that the bar excludes black people. The official reason why they couldn’t get in, their stories went, had to do with fashion. “My jeans were too baggy,” said Ryan…
Shortly after Danny Cantu’s home was searched by Dallas police officers, he ended up in the hospital with trauma to his face. “Kicked in head,” read the notes in his medical records. He had been admitted with septal hematoma — bruising or bleeding in the nose — and lacerations on…
In September, Brice Johnson starting talking to Arron Keahey on MeetMe.com, a networking and dating app. Keahey’s profile said he was looking for other men. Johnson, a 19-year-old from Springtown (a half hour’s drive northwest of Fort Worth) indicated that he was straight in his own profile, but nonetheless started…
There may have been a record-breaking 300 plus earthquakes in North Texas since December, but don’t point so much blame at the suspicious deep injection wells used to dispose of fracking wastewater. “A knee-jerk reaction could have a negative impact on our economy because of the large role the oil…
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