Check Out What Appears To Be Amber Guyger’s Pinterest Account

In the hours and days between shooting Botham Jean and her name being made public, Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger appeared to scrub as much of her life as possible from the internet. By the time Guyger’s name was widely known, she and her family had disappeared from Facebook, Twitter…

Activists Shut Down City Council Meeting to Demand Police Review Board

Dallas civil rights activists united Wednesday afternoon at Dallas City Hall to call on the City Council to create a citizens’ police review board with the power to subpoena and discipline officers. At a lunchtime press conference, organizers demanded that the city beef up its review board following the death…

North Texas U.S. Attorney Closes Book on Massive Mortgage Scam

Six years after it started, all four people behind a mortgage scam that bilked dozens of desperate North Texans out of hundreds of thousands of dollars are behind bars, Erin Nealy Cox, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas said Tuesday. U.S. District Judge David Godbey sentenced Mark Demetri…

Aggravated Assault Charges Dropped Against Jordan Edwards’ Murderer

For now at least, ex-cop Roy Oliver is not facing additional felony charges following his August murder conviction for killing Mesquite teenager Jordan Edwards. Tuesday, the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office dropped four charges of aggravated assault by a public servant against Oliver, citing the district attorney’s need to allocate…

Fate of Officer Who Killed Botham Jean Will Come Down to Two Juries

Details about exactly what happened the night Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger killed Botham Jean are going to be kept out of the public eye as Dallas County prosecutors continue to investigate, District Attorney Faith Johnson said Monday. The more information that gets out during the investigation, Johnson said, the…

Ex-Balch Springs Cop Gets 15 Years for Jordan Edwards’ Murder

A Dallas County jury sentenced Roy Oliver to 15 years in prison late Wednesday night. The ex-Balch Springs police officer faced as few as five years, and as many as 99, after being convicted of murdering Mesquite teenager Jordan Edwards in April 2017. The jury also handed Oliver a $10,000…

Roy Oliver’s Conviction Is a Rarity Among Rarities

When cops shoot and kill civilians in the United States, they rarely get indicted for anything. It’s rarer still when they get charged with murder and even rarer than that when they are actually convicted of a crime — usually manslaughter, if anything. That’s what makes Tuesday afternoon’s events just…

Ex-Balch Springs Cop Roy Oliver Found Guilty of Murder

Roy Oliver killed Jordan Edwards. The ex-Balch Springs police officer fired his rifle into a Chevrolet Impala driving away from a party in the eastern Dallas County town in April 2017 five times. Oliver hit Edwards, 15, in the head, killing the Mesquite High School freshman. None of those facts…

Dwaine Caraway Resigns, Pleads Guilty to Federal Corruption Charges

Dallas City Council member Dwaine Caraway has agreed to plead guilty to two federal corruption charges, according to documents filed Thursday morning. Caraway, now serving his fifth non-consecutive term on the Council, accepted $450,000 from Robert Leonard and Slater Smartwood Sr., both former executives with Force Multiplier Solutions.

Texas Governor Abbott Pitches Bail Reform, but not the Good Kind

Let it never be said that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is incapable of reaction. Since the election of President Donald Trump, he’s molded his priorities in the shape of the president, focusing on issues like “sanctuary cities,” a term we’re still waiting for him to define. After eight students and…