The City of Dallas is struggling to keep the police and fire pension funded. Retired Dallas police and firefighters have not received a cost of living increase in eight years.
Saturday’s ceremony was just the latest part of an effort to install public markers memorializing Black members of the Dallas community, like Taylor, whose.
The couple spotted fugitive Leonard Lamar Neal getting on a bus on July 7. Neal had been on the run for nearly a month, wanted for kidnapping and sexually.
The North Texas Crime Commission explained why by law it could not give reward money to a husband and wife whose 911 call helped catch a kidnapping and sexual assault suspect. The commission plans to honor Kenyatta and Briana Jordan next month. But on Tuesday, it wanted to help in what the commission calls a one-in-a-million event.