Botham Jean gets a street named after him and more Dallas city news
Botham Jean gets a street named after him and more Dallas city news This street will now be called Botham Jean Boulevard.
Photo by Jeremy McKane In this weekly roundup of city news, a street in Dallas gets a name change, Denton launches a COVID-19 vaccine clinic, and a group decides to hold their own darn MLK parade. Here s what happened in Dallas this week:
Botham Jean Boulevard The Dallas City Council voted to change the name of a section of South Lamar Street to Botham Jean Boulevard, to honor the man who was killed in his apartment by police officer Amber Guyger on that very street in 2018. It covers a stretch of South Lamar Street between Interstate 30 and South Central Expressway, which includes the South Side Flats apartment complex where Jean lived and was killed.
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Dallas police officers will receive training on how to avoid police mistakes and prevent misconduct by UNT Dallas specialists.
Next month, the Dallas Police Department will launch a new training program that “aims to avoid police mistakes, prevent misconduct” and try to create a cultural shift within the department.
The Active Bystandership in Law Enforcement training, or ABLE, aims to train officers on how to best intervene during conflict. A few DPD officers will be trained initially, and then they’ll become certified to train other officers. Each officer that participates will receive a preliminary eight hours of ABLE training and two hours of annual refresher training every year.
During its meeting on Wednesday, Dallas city council members unanimously approved a program that would help teach Dallas police officers how to better police themselves. NBC 5’s Alanna Quillen reports on the ABLE program.
There was plenty of discussion during Wednesday s meeting between council members, police and the assistant city manager, with many showing support for the program and voicing their plea to change systemic issues within police culture. There s a lot of folks wanting to know what s going on with DPD right now and I think just the more transparency we can provide the community, the better, said District 1 Councilman Chad West.