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  Tarrant County Indicts Arlington Cop for September Shooting

  May 2 at 4 a.m.

  A Tarrant County grand jury has indicted an Arlington Police Department officer in the shooting death of a 24-year-old man who tried to drive away from a traffic stop in September 2018. Arlington police Officer Julie Herlihy pulled O'Shea Terry over because he had expired temporary tags on his SUV...

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  Audio of Botham Jean 911 Call Takes Us to a Tough Question. Was His Killing Racial?

  May 1 at 4 a.m.

  At least in terms of the public process, if not the legal one, the release of the audio recording of the 911 call in the Botham Jean killing finally takes us down to the fine point of what has been the public question from the beginning: If a white cop...

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  ‘I Thought It Was My Apartment. I’m Fucked. Oh My God. I’m Sorry’

  April 30 at 10:05 a.m.

  Immediately after shooting Botham Jean, former Dallas Police Department officer Amber Guyger told a city 911 dispatcher that she'd made a horrible mistake. "I’m an off-duty officer. I thought I was in my apartment and I shot a guy thinking he was, thinking it was my apartment," Guyger said. "I...

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  Citizens Police Review Board Revamp Passes Unanimously

  April 25 at 4 a.m.

  Dallas' Citizens Police Review Board got meaningfully stronger Wednesday. The new board won't be as strong as activists wanted it to be and is probably a little stronger than Dallas' police associations would've preferred. Its creation is a compromise, just as Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall said it would...

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  Man Arrested in Beating of Transgender Woman at Dallas Apartment Complex

  April 15 at 1:31 p.m.

  Dallas police have arrested a man in connection with the beating of a transgender woman in the parking lot of an east Oak Cliff apartment complex. Police say Edward Thomas, 29, was involved in a minor traffic accident with Muhlaysia Booker between 5 and 6 p.m. Friday in the parking...

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  Dallas’ Citizens Police Review Board Revamp Gets Better Reviews Second Time Around

  April 4 at 4 a.m.

  When Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall rolled out her first draft of potential changes to Dallas' Citizens Police Review Board last month, she took heat from all sides. Supporters of reforming the board felt that Hall's changes didn't go far enough, while opponents of the reforms worried that strengthening...