When Keith Johnson read the police report, he could hardly believe it. “Every time I read it, I was thinking, ‘What am I missing, what am I missing?'” Johnson recalled. “I’ve been a cop for a very long time, and I’ve never heard of something like this.” Johnson, who served 27…
One day in March 2020, Michael Police was not far from his off-campus apartment, sharing a Black n’ Mild cigar with a friend, when a Navarro College Department of Public Safety cop pulled up. Police now plays football for the University of West Florida, but at the time, he was…
After George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin last year, police departments across the U.S. scrambled to implement reforms: moves to hold police accountable, programs to sharpen incoming officers’ training and rules barring restraints like chokeholds, for instance. Dallas joined the wave only 10 days after Floyd’s murder…
It took Ebony Underwood years to understand how her father’s incarceration has affected her life. “I didn’t realize how devastating the experience has been until I became a little bit older, a little bit more mature,” she said. “But it had just been affecting so many areas of my life.”…
When Gov Greg Abbott issued an executive order instructing state police to pull over cars suspected of carrying migrants who might have COVID-19 last week, he sparked the ire of both immigration advocates and the U.S. Department of Justice. Advocates said the order, which empowers Texas Department of Public Safety…
In a video of the incident, Kaufman County Sheriff’s Deputy Conner Martin has Antanique Ray’s daughter Nekia Trigg pinned on her back beneath him. The officer holds Trigg’s arms down with his elbows, using his hands to press hers into the grass. Ray, 41, squats beside them. At one point…
Allegedly, Maranda Odonnell was driving with an invalid license. After being taken into custody in Harris County Jail in 2016, officers told her she could leave immediately if she paid $2,500 in cash bail. In a hearing lasting less than 60 seconds, during which Harris County sheriff’s officers told her…
Just about everyone around Arlington’s Seville Commons shopping center knew Margarita “Maggie” Brooks and her dog. Brooks, 30, and her boyfriend had been living on the streets, but she had earned a reputation in the area as a “good hearted person,” said Larry Hamilton, who lives nearby and knew her…
America’s criminal justice system is rigged, exacting punishment and inhumane imprisonment disproportionately upon certain targeted groups, U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert contends. The victims of this oppressive system? Trump supporters like him, of course. In a Monday tweet, Gohmert wrote, “Sadly, two systems of justice exist in America today: one for…
By all accounts, Mauro Rivera Romero was clearly ill. After U.S. Border Patrol officers arrested him on a Greyhound bus near El Paso in 2011, he complained of persistent abdominal pain. He told officers he’d been hospitalized for a stomach infection only days before. On his second day in Immigration…
Gov. Greg Abbott’s reelection campaign received a $100,000 donation from AT&T on the same day he vowed to pass restrictive voting laws during Texas’ special legislative session. AT&T’s CEO has said the company supports expanding voting rights nationwide.
This week, a federal judge ordered a halt in an ongoing lawsuit brought by Dallas County Jail detainees against the county.
During a meeting with several sheriffs of border counties this past weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott said he wants the state to give more money to bankroll local law enforcement in enforcing immigration laws. “Our goal is not to release them,” the governor said. “Our goal is to jail them.” Enforcing immigration…
A government watchdog group Thursday named Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton an “enemy of progress,” citing his role in challenging the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, anti-immigration efforts and ties to the oil and gas industry. The D.C.-based organization Accountable.US named Paxton a “top target” of its Enemies of Progress…
