Jaime Resendez
In a statement, the mayor said, This is an awful situation, and the public deserves answers regarding who knew what, when they knew it, and why the officer remained on active duty. I fully expect this committee to get to the bottom of exactly what transpired in a fair, judicious, and transparent manner.”
Last week former Dallas Chief of Police Renee Hall said in a statement on Thursday that: DPD Special Investigations Unit, in collaboration with the FBI, recommended not placing Riser on administrative leave. Taking that action could have compromised the investigation.
But the next day FBI Special Agent in Charge Matthew DeSarno flatly denied his agents made such a suggestion.
A Dallas police officer is facing two charges of capital murder from the unrelated deaths of two people, a man and a woman killed months apart in 2017.