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The Last 911 Call: A Mentally Ill Dallas Man and the Cops Who Saved Him, Until They Didn't

By Sky Chadde
Dec 31, 2014

The sanctuary of St. Paul United Methodist Church, a red-brick anachronism surrounded by the skyward steel and concrete of downtown Dallas, is small and tight — not nearly big enough to accommodate the swarm of people that poured into the city's oldest black church on a warm Monday night in...
Dallas Police Department Brass Calls a Police Shooting "Reckless"

By Sky Chadde
Nov 25, 2014

Dallas News | myFOXdfw.com In December of last year, Kelvion Walker became another black teenager shot by a police officer. He had jumped into the passenger's seat of a car his friend had stolen without his knowledge, but his friend bailed when Officer Amy Wilburn approached. This left Walker alone...
Dallas Group Files a Complaint with the Department of Justice Against City, DPD for Police Brutality

By Sky Chadde
Nov 19, 2014

On Thursday, a Dallas community organization will file a formal complaint with the Department of Justice against Dallas and its police department for fostering what the group sees as an environment in which police officers can kill blacks and Hispanics without fear of consequences. The complaint is the product of...
Questionable Science Aside, Dallas' Low T Center Is Growing Like Crazy

By Sky Chadde
Nov 17, 2014

The Low T Center, the growing network of clinics that injects Dallas men with testosterone and whose scientific foundation is a tad shoddy, has won an award for "ingenuity, commitment and character." SMU's Cox Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship named it one of the city's 100 fastest-growing private businesses, quite an...
How the Low T Industry Is Cashing in on Dubious, and Perhaps Dangerous, Science

By Sky Chadde
Nov 12, 2014

Alex Truman didn't think something was wrong until he returned to the gym. Before fathering his two kids, he worked out regularly and even made an early career of exercise. He had two degrees in health and fitness and ran gyms on the East Coast before he moved to Dallas...

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