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  Problems Plague Rollout of Police Oversight Office

  October 21 at 4 a.m.

  Until Friday morning, anyone looking to report police misconduct to Dallas' new Office of Community Police Oversight would have had a hard time figuring out how. Instructions on a Dallas police website for submitting complaints led callers to a disconnected number. A link to the office responsible for collecting complaints...

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  The Gun in Atatiana Jefferson’s Hand Will Be Far from Irrelevant

  October 17 at 4 a.m.

  The mayor of Fort Worth says there is no relevance or importance in the fact that Atatiana Jefferson, killed by a Fort Worth police officer Saturday, had a gun. The mayor is wrong. According to the murder warrant for the former police officer who killed her, Jefferson, 28, pointed her...

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  Answers to Questions About Atatiana Jefferson’s Death May Lie in Ex-Chief’s Lawsuit

  October 16 at 4 a.m.

  The same questions being asked now of the Fort Worth Police Department, mayor and city manager in the shooting death of 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson were asked last June in a lawsuit against the city filed by former Fort Worth Chief Joel Fitzgerald, who is demanding reinstatement after being fired last...

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  Civil Rights Attorney: ‘A Lot of Road to Cover’ Before Atatiana Jefferson’s Family Gets Justice

  October 15 at 10:57 a.m.

  While he called statements made by Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price and interim police Chief Ed Kraus "positive," the lawyer for the family of a woman shot and killed by a Fort Worth police officer said responsibility for the killing lies with the entire department, not just a single officer...

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  Family of Fort Worth Police Shooting Victim Calls for Federal Investigation

  October 14 at 12:16 p.m.

  The family of Atatiana Jefferson, the woman shot and killed by Fort Worth police during a wellness call early Saturday morning, spoke out for the first time since the shooting Monday morning, calling for a federal investigation of Jefferson's death. A still-unnamed white police officer shot Jefferson, who was black,...

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  McKinney Council Member, a Black Lives Matter Activist, Brings the Fight to Dallas City Hall

  October 11 at 4 a.m.

  The activist who confronted Chief U. Renee Hall at the heated police oversight board meeting on Tuesday at Dallas City Hall doesn't live in the city. He’s McKinney City Council member La'Shadion Shemwell, a barber and activist who was voted into office in 2017 following the McKinney pool party incident that...