Derek Chauvin guilty verdict highlights need to continue Texas fight for police reform
Derek Chauvin guilty verdict highlights need to continue Texas fight for police reform
Local activists vow to keep up the pressure as lawmakers push for legislative changes and new leaders emerge.
A woman holds up a sign as people stand together during a prayer vigil as various pastors from local churches pray during A Gathering of Our Collin County Churches, at the Collin County Courthouse in McKinney, Texas on Thursday, June 4, 2020. Churches in Collin county joined to spread a message of unity and love for justice and thoughts on racism.(Vernon Bryant / Staff Photographer)
‘Not enough’: Dallas activists, elected officials say more still to be done after conviction of George Floyd’s killer
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said he hopes the verdict against Derek Chauvin will propel further reforms in Dallas
Demonstrators march down Elm Street downtown during the Not My Son organization s 100 Women March from Dallas City Hall to the Frank Crowley Courts Building on Friday, July 31, 2020. Protests that began in the response to the death of George Floyd in late May continued in Dallas as the calendar moves from July into August. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News)(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)
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Marsha Jackson, a resident at Floral Farms, looks at the giant pile of shingles that is visible from her backyard. Jackson says she wears long-sleeved shirts when she’s outside due to the harmful particles in the air.
Though the city has hired a company to haul Shingle Mountain away, residents of Floral Farms in southeast Dallas say tearing it down would be just the start of the recovery process. They re calling for more to be done, including the implementation of a plan that will address racial zoning.
For close to three years, in the agricultural community of Floral Farms, a mound of shingles stands so high that it s been notoriously nicknamed Shingle Mountain.