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Minimal progress on police reform efforts as Texas Legislature nears end
Minimal progress on police reform efforts as Texas Legislature nears end
As the final days tick away for the biannual Texas legislative session, progress is limited on police reform efforts proposed in the wake of George Floyd s death.
DALLAS - Following George Floyd’s murder, the momentum to implement police reform seemed strong in Texas and throughout the United States
But as the final days tick away for the biannual Texas legislative session, progress is limited.
The George Floyd Act a sweeping reform bill didn’t make it past its first committee hearing in the legislature. Instead it was broken up into smaller pieces, with some expected to be signed into law.
Published: 7:53 PM CDT May 15, 2021 Updated: 8:04 PM CDT May 15, 2021
BRYAN, Texas Protesters lined the streets of Texas Avenue Saturday in front of the Bryan Police Department. Black Lives Matter BCS and members of the Neal Park Potluck organized the protest to shine a light on what they said is racism within the Bryan Police Department.
The Black in Bryan 17/24/43 protest was organized to highlight two purposes, according to information released about the protest Friday. The group wanted to mark the 10-year anniversary of the shooting of Johnnie Harris Jr. Harris, who is a Black man, was running from police when he was shot by an on-duty officer. He was not armed and the officer did not face charges in the case.
Erin Osterberg, an assistant professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of the Fraser Valley, focuses her research on police response to gang violence.
She said the key to ending gang violence in the region is cracking down on importation of drugs. In the late 90s, all the funding for ports police was decimated, and so at our major seaports, we don t have a police presence, she told
On the Coast host Gloria Macarenko. That s really problematic as far as the ability to import commercial quantities of the drugs that are essentially fuelling all of this violence.