Invisible Man: A Hard Look at Mayor Eric Johnson
Eric Johnson’s escape from poverty reads like a fairy tale. But his story took a turn when he became mayor. Why has he disappeared from so many of his old friends lives?
By Peter Simek
Published in
D Magazine
May
2021
Photo Illustration by Natalie Goff, Photography by Bret Redman, and Courtesy
It was more than four hours into the June 5, 2020, special meeting of the Dallas City Council called to discuss the George Floyd demonstrations, and Mayor Eric Johnson had no more patience for bullshit. Johnson had sat quietly listening to one resident after another lecture him about Dallas’ endemic racism and struggles with over-policing. When it was finally his turn to speak, he wanted answers about what had happened on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge the previous Sunday. Dallas police officers had fired so-called nonlethal rounds of ammunition and tear gas canisters at a peaceful crowd that included many children. Who was ultimate
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what happened? other nearby me saying they saw a wheel roll away, on to the runway. there was no emergency peoples ready for it. they came out afterwards, after the plane started skidding, we started seeing it skidded to a halt. i m going to break this up, because unfortunately we have lost our collection with bobby abtahi. peter goelz is still with us on the phone. i think you can make out the gist of what he was saying. what does that say to you? what it says is they saw a piece of the landing gear break loose on one of the tires. it means that it probably took the flight crew by surprise that a failure occurred suddenly, and didn t have enough time to radio ahead to alert the rescue squad
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