By Jessica Pishko for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.Broadcast version by Roz Brown for Texas News Service reporting for the Pulitzer Center-Public News Service Collaboration. Last summer, the sheriff of Coryell County in Central Texas took to an elevated platform in a small Las Vegas ballroom and made an unusual announcement: He was a “born-again sheriff,” he said, having “realized that I wasn’t doing my job 100%.” Sheriff Scott Williams runs a 92-bed jail and provides security for the courthouse in Gatesville. He oversees around two dozen employees. .
New audio has revealed the moment Chase Allan, a Utah law student who was shot dead by cops after refusing to comply, previously scrapped with officers during his mom s trial six months earlier.
The mother of the law student killed by Utah police earlier this month considered herself a sovereign citizen and ha a similar run in with law enforcement last year.
This marks at least the third time Chicago’s inspector general has pressed the police department to take a closer look at an officer’s far-right links.