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Republican Deanna Metzger is something of a rarity this election cycle. She’s running in one of the only Texas House districts Republicans have the potential to take back out of Democratic hands. While many nearby incumbent Republican lawmakers are fending off tough challenges from Democrats hoping to capitalize on North Texas’ shifting electorate, Metzger is hoping to unseat freshman state Rep. Victoria Neave from the swing district east of Dallas. That could mean a rare pickup for Republicans, who are in little danger of losing their dominant majority in the Texas House, but this year are more focused on defending it than growing it. Metzger, a businesswoman and attorney who owns a construction company, has been an outlier before. In this year’s Republican primary elections, she bested Joe Ruzicka, making her one of just a few hardline conservative candidates to take down a more moderate opponent. Metzger, for example, suggested she would support some version of a … [Read more...] about In Dallas-area Texas House race, Deanna Metzger is the rare Republican who’s on offense
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‘Some Sense of Justice’ for Jordan Edwards
In April 2017, when Roy Oliver, a 37-year-old white police officer in Balch Springs, a suburb east of Dallas, shot and killed an unarmed 15-year-old black teenager named Jordan Edwards as he was leaving a party, plenty of Dallas County courthouse veterans predicted that Oliver would never spend a day in prison. “Texas juries don’t convict cops,” one longtime lawyer told me. “They certainly don’t convict them of murder.” In fact, it had been 44 years since a police officer in Texas had been charged with committing a murder while carrying out his official duties. In 1973, Darrell Cain, a police officer for the city of Dallas, shot 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez in the head while Rodriguez sat handcuffed inside a squad car. Apparently, attempting to solicit a confession, Cain had forced the boy into a version of Russian roulette, holding a gun to his head and then killing him on the second pull of the trigger. Nevertheless, the jury only … [Read more...] about ‘Some Sense of Justice’ for Jordan Edwards
Busted
There was a knock on the door, and Callie answered it. It was the mail carrier dropping off a package. Normally, the delivery person just placed parcels on the porch of Callie’s suburban Saginaw home, but since it was November and holiday package thefts were on the rise, Callie merely chalked it up to cautiousness on the part of the postal service. She closed the door and headed back inside. She was barely able to take two steps before there was another knock – and then the sound of a battering ram smashing her door open. “Police officers stormed into my home,” Callie said, “and had me on the floor, and I’m zip-tied.” Her three children were upstairs playing video games but “got to be a part of this whole fiasco, which is unfortunate.” Local music scenesters probably know Callie best by her stage name, Callie Dee, a hip-hop promoter who has put on some of the biggest rap shows in North Texas and with some of the biggest names, … [Read more...] about Busted