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By Matt Goodman
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June 4, 2021
7:51 am
We Start This Morning With a DPD Roundup. First up, Bryan Riser, the officer whose charges that he ordered a pair of people killed were lifted by a judge for a lack of evidence, was accused of abusing his ex-wife in 2015.
The Dallas Morning News got records from a recent child custody proceeding, during which his ex-wife alleged that Riser threatened to beat her in the street while their children watched. He also said he would kill her if she took the children out of Dallas-Fort Worth. So she moved and let Riser have primary custody of the kids so she could stay “alive for them.” Riser said he had no domestic disturbance on record, but DeSoto police were twice called to their home for reports that he was being violent. He never notified Dallas police of the incident, arguing that no crime occurre