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How Much of a Difference Would Police Body Cameras Really Make?
Keyarika Diggles was suspected of failing to finish paying off her traffic tickets. Diggles, a single mother of two, had been making payments, but she still owed more than $100. That led two Jasper...
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Stories Of Police Violence In Texas Are All Over The Internet Right Now
The relationship between police and the people they’re tasked with protecting and serving is strained everywhere right now, after grand juries failed to indict the policemen who caused the deaths of...
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Whole Foods Takes a Side in Baltimore
The situation in Baltimore is the sort of divisive, racially charged, political and cultural quagmire that corporations typically dread being associated with. Seemingly everyone has a strong opinion...
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On #WacoThugs, Biker Gangs, and White-on-White Crime
The scene in Waco on Sunday was like something off a TV show. Broad daylight shoot-outs between rival gangs that leave nine dead and eighteen others hospitalized rarely happen in Texas strip malls,...
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There Is Video of Sgt. James Brown’s Final Moments in an El Paso Jail
In July 2012, a 26-year-old African American Army combat veteran stationed at Fort Bliss turned himself in for a two-day sentence for DWI. His name was Sgt. James Brown. He walked into the El Paso...
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What Happened in McKinney
There’s an undeniable history in this country of police treating black people, especially young black people, like they must be controlled. As a result, many black people, especially young black...
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Police Violence — The More Things Stay The Same
In the late summer of 1977, I was working for the Beaumont Enterprise and living with two other journalists in a termite-ridden rent house beneath a street overpass. Only a high row of hedges...
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What Is There to Say About This Austin Police Video?
There’s an old adage in journalism that you’ve probably heard: a dog bites a man, that’s not a story. A man bites a dog, that’s a story. You have to keep this in mind when covering the great state of...
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Family And Friends Question The Story Of How Sandra Bland Died In Police Custody
There are big questions about the final hours of Sandra Bland’s life. The official story is that the 28-year old committed suicide by hanging herself in a Waller County jail cell. Her family doesn’t...
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The Arlington Police Department Takes A Different Approach After Christian...
The Arlington Police Department has handled the death of Christian Taylor much differently than other police departments dealing with officer-involved shootings. That’s cold comfort to the family —...
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Round Rock High School Video Sparks A Familiar Debate
Last week, a video captured by a Round Rock High School student went viral. In it, you can see two school police officers confronting a fourteen-year-old boy named Gyasi Hughes. They corner the...
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Travis County DA Rosemary Lehmberg Is Appealing The Ruling On Charles...
Last week, the case of retired Austin Police detective Charles Kleinert took another turn. Kleinert was indicted last year for the 2013 death of Larry Jackson Jr., an unarmed black man who visited a...
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Who Can Get Away With Jaywalking?
I’m going to confess to a crime: I jaywalked on Austin’s Sixth Street on Thursday, and I got away with it. I was running late for a screening at the Austin Film Festival. It was early in the evening,...
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Austin Police Shot An Unarmed Black Teenager While He Was Naked
We don’t know where seventeen-year-old David Joseph was in relation to Austin Police Officer Geoffrey Freeman when the officer shot and killed the teen on Monday morning. We do know that Joseph was...
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What Does A Culture That Values “Blue Lives” Look Like?
In the wake of officer shootings in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Governor Greg Abbott announced his support for the Police Protection Act. The proposed bill would add targeting police to the list of...
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The McKinney Pool Party Incident Sparks Another Lawsuit
In June 2015, the North Texas city of McKinney—which, until then, was perhaps best known as the hometown of former professional wrestler Haystacks Calhoun—suddenly became famous. A video shot near a...
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How The Jordan Edwards Case is Different
On April 29, near Dallas, Jordan Edwards was killed by Balch Springs police officer Roy Oliver. The story, unfortunately, wasn’t unfamiliar. Edwards was leaving a party at which officers had been...
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