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December 14, 2020December 13, 2020

Will Dallas Repeat Reneé Hall Errors with Brackney?

Dallas appears to be repeating the Reneé Hall errors by naming RaShall M. Brackney a finalist for Dallas Police Chief. Hall has officially left her duties as police chief under a cloud of questions from her own officers. She accelerated her departure timeline after we reported on inappropriate behavior between she and convicted felon Dominique Alexander.

Brackney on the other hand may be coming to Dallas and could just be Reneé Hall 2.0 when it comes to listening to the public. Broadnax announced his list of finalists last week.

In October, the Interim Minister and Board for the Unitarian Universalists of Charlottesville wrote a letter to Brackney – a reported “expert on harm reduction, procedural and restorative justice practices, and community-police relations” about what appears on its face to be a case of racial profiling by her officers. Her response was a press conference where she called for the termination of both the church pastor and the entire board.

Brackney’s full press conference can be seen here.

Brackney comes to Dallas as local neo nazis act with impunity vandalizing city property and Dallas City Council can not decide if they will hold police accountable or just defund them in line with social-justice activists’ wishes.

Meanwhile Brackney is considered a finalist for our top cop role – coming from a department that has a bad history of dealing with protests and counter protests.

The Charlottesville (VA) Police Department is having the same issues with officer accountability as Dallas has had with Chief Hall’s lies about the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge incident.

Dallas has a long history of protests and Dallas Police in responding, but the thinking of TC Broadnax on this one is confusing – especially given the recent problems with Reneé Hall.

As a person on social media noted “of all the people in the world to go to war with, I feel like “the reverend at the unitarian church” was a bad choice for the Charlottesville Police Department.”

Brackney History

Brackney’s Charlottesville biography states prior to her appointment as the Chief of Police she retired as a 30-year veteran from the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police and served as the former Chief of Police of the George Washington University.

Comment was sough from Charlottesville Police public information unit, but there has been no response as of time of publish.

December 14, 2020December 13, 2020

Texas HB196 A Focus For Texas Legislature

A source in Austin reports State Representative Terry Meza‘s Texas HB196 will be a focus for the Texas legislature in the upcoming session starting in January 2021. One Republican said it was “better than Christmas.”

Meza sparked a backlash when she proposed changes to the state’s “castle doctrine,” through Texas HB196, which allows the use of deadly force to protect property.

Facebook has numerous posts attributed to Meza regarding HB196. Calls and emails to her office were not returned so these statements have not been validated.

Privately Republicans are rejoicing saying Democrats have stepped in the muck again.

The point to rising crime numbers throughout Dallas and other cities including officers being attacked and the Democrats filing a bill to stop citizens and home owners from protecting their own property.

One legislative staffer said Denton County had to arrest Dallas’ serial killer because their police chief is in a relationship with a BLM activist with a felony record. Instead of protecting the public, they are filing HB196 which looks to protect criminals.

Some Democrats complain too continuing a pattern of infighting since Election Day when Democrats failed in their expectations to be leading the state house in 2021.

We just lost every winnable seat possible and we have state reps thinking HB196 will bring the suburbs back to voting for us. Democrats continue to say ‘we did it‘ while losing winnable races.

Meza’s bill filing comes just as a local Democrat and criminal judge was arrested for DWI.

Texas HB196

The specific text of Terry Meza’s bill can be found here and is included below.

87R1395 JCG-D

	By: Meza	H.B. No. 196



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the use of deadly force in defense of a person or
	property.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Sections 9.32(a) and (c), Penal Code, are
	amended to read as follows:
	(a) A person is justified in using deadly force against
	another if the actor:
	(1) is [~~if the actor would be~~] justified in using force
	against the other under Section 9.31; [~~and~~]
	(2) is unable to safely retreat; and
	(3) [~~when and to the degree the actor~~] reasonably
	believes the deadly force is immediately necessary:
	(A) to protect the actor against the other’s use
	or attempted use of unlawful deadly force; or
	(B) to prevent the other’s imminent commission of
	aggravated kidnapping, murder, sexual assault, or aggravated
	sexual assault[~~, robbery, or aggravated robbery~~].
	(c) Notwithstanding Subsection (a)(2), a [A] person who is
	in the person’s own habitation [~~has a right to be present at the~~
	~~location where the deadly force is used~~], who has not provoked the
	person against whom the deadly force is used, and who is not engaged
	in criminal activity at the time the deadly force is used is not
	required to retreat before using deadly force as described by this
	section.
	SECTION 2. Section 9.41, Penal Code, is amended to read as
	follows:
	Sec. 9.41. PROTECTION OF ONE’S OWN PROPERTY. (a) A person
	in lawful possession of land, including a habitation on the land, or
	tangible, movable property is justified in using force against
	another when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the
	force is immediately necessary to prevent or terminate the other’s
	trespass on the land or unlawful interference with the property.
	(b) A person unlawfully dispossessed of land, including a
	habitation on the land, or tangible, movable property by another is
	justified in using force against the other when and to the degree
	the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to
	reenter the land or recover the property if the actor uses the force
	immediately or in fresh pursuit after the dispossession and:
	(1) the actor reasonably believes the other had no
	claim of right when he dispossessed the actor; or
	(2) the other accomplished the dispossession by using
	force, threat, or fraud against the actor.
	SECTION 3. Section 9.42, Penal Code, is amended to read as
	follows:
	Sec. 9.42. DEADLY FORCE TO PROTECT PROPERTY. A person is
	justified in using deadly force against another to protect land,
	including a habitation on the land, or tangible, movable property
	if the actor:
	(1) is [~~if he would be~~] justified in using force
	against the other under Section 9.41; [~~and~~]
	(2) [~~when and to the degree he~~] reasonably believes
	the deadly force is immediately necessary:
	(A) to prevent the other’s imminent commission of
	arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the
	nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime; or
	(B) to prevent the other who is fleeing
	immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated
	robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the
	property; and
	(3) [he] reasonably believes that:
	(A) the land or property cannot be protected or
	recovered by any other means; or
	(B) the use of force other than deadly force to
	protect or recover the land or property would expose the actor or
	another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury.
	SECTION 4. Sections 9.32(b) and (d), Penal Code, are
	repealed.
	SECTION 5. The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
	An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
	governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,
	and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
	purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
	effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred
	before that date.
	SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.

December 13, 2020December 13, 2020

Democrat Audrey Moorehead Arrested For DWI

Dallas County criminal court judge Audrey Moorehead was arrested Tuesday night on a charge of driving under the influence, according to Farmers Branch police records.

About 10:43 p.m., Farmers Branch Police officers were called to the 13500 block of Midway Road. Upon arriving on scene they found a white Cadillac had struck a light pole. Judge Audrey Faye Moorehead was placed under arrest on a DWI charge and taken to the Farmers Branch jail.

Moorehead was released on bond the following day. It has not been determined if Judge Moorehead presided over other criminal cases in the days that followed.

Audrey Moorehead

Moorehead assumed office in Dallas County in 2018. She presides over County Criminal Court 3 and is also listed as member of the Dallas Bar Association Board of Directors.

Moorehead did not face opposition in the 2018 Democratic Party primary, but looks to have insider status. Earlier in the year statewide Democrats nominated Terri Hodge to be a representative of the Democratic Party in the Electoral College.

Hodge had previously served a year in prison for felony tax evasion secondary to bribery.

December 12, 2020December 12, 2020

Lawyer Richard Reynolds Sentenced

Lawyer Richard Reynolds who concealed bribes to officials in the Dallas County Schools system was sentenced this week to six months in prison.

In a June guilty plea, Reynolds admitted he used his law firm to help facilitate and conceal some of the bribe payments made by school bus camera company owner Robert Leonard to Dallas County schools superintendent Rick Sorrells. Leonard and Sorrells are currently serving seven-year terms in federal prison, for their roles in the scheme which involved more than $3 million dollars in bribes and kickbacks.

Dallas Independent School District may have similar issues. The former DISD Chief Internal Auditor stated that there were millions in overcharges and a former employee filed an affidavit stating overcharges were finding their way into the pockets of trustees.

Lawyer Richard Reynolds And DCS

Reynolds had no other connection to the school “system” that provided transportation to multiple school districts in the area.

Dallas County Schools (DCS) was a taxpayer funded school bus transportation government agency. It was founded in 1846 and offered full service and/or supplemental student transportation services to other government entities and localm private, and charter schools in and around Dallas County, Texas. They also served part of Denton County as well. DCS was one of the top student transportation fleets in the nation and operated a fleet of approximately 2,000 buses. They transported more than 75,000 children to and from school safely each day.

December 9, 2020December 8, 2020

Risqué Reneé Hall

Risqué Reneé Hall may be the new moniker for outgoing Dallas Police Chief Reneé Hall.

Hall who is about to leave as the embattled police chief of Dallas may have more to answer for than just her lack of leadership and supervision during the Dallas George Floyd protests and the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge debacle. Internal reports at the time showed Hall lied about the events around the bridge event.

Those may be minor issues in comparison.

A year and a half ago there were media rumors about her relationship with Dominique Alexander and the conflict of interest it posed in the Dominique Alexander case. She has often publicly put him out front in an advisory role for the Citizens Police Oversight Board.

Additionally, he brags regularly about his close ties to her. It appears those ties are closer than previously known as two current Dallas Police officers noted Hall and Alexander have been intimate and that the relationship has clouded her judgement.

Alexander has multiple arrests to his credit outside his activism. A year ago when he and Hall are reported to have been involved, Alexander was being arrested on a felony assault charge in a domestic violence case involving his girlfriend.

Alexander faced charges of assault causing serious bodily injury and a misdemeanor assault in the cases.

Alexander was convicted of shaking a 2-year-old baby in 2011. He was sentenced to five years but released on probation shortly after his sentencing. Alexander has also been convicted of theft, making a false police report and evading arrest. He’s also been indicted in Denton County for felony theft.

This is one of the people the police chief chooses to spend time with in both official and unofficial capacities.

Risqué Reneé Hall Continued…?

The behavior in this case calls into question why TC Broadnax is following the same plan as last time.

In the previous search for a new police chief, TC Broadnax used a secret panel to determine who would be selected as Dallas’ new police chief. He is doing the same again – calling into question is he incorporating the assistance of Dominique Alexander or other convicted felons into the process.

Neither Broadnax, nor Jon Fortune, Assistant City Manager for Public Safety, returned emails seeking comment about the police chief’s judgement or these allegations coming from inside the department.

It is clear there is no leadership coming from their offices or Risqué Reneé Hall on the crime rate which is exploding in Dallas where parents are shot on their way to pick up a child from childcare or members of cult groups are allowed to graffiti hate symbols on city parking garages.

December 7, 2020December 7, 2020

School Board Election Gaslighting

This weekend there was more school board election gaslighting. Jim Schutze who is writing for D Magazine disclosed a website: www.choosedisd.org is directing to his D Magazine author page.

This would be innocuous enough, but earlier in the week Schutze had accused Nancy Rodriguez of hurting black and brown children’s ability to find equity because another website (www.choosedallasisd.com) redirected to her page. He said at that time that Rodriguez would not return his messages, but Rodroguez offers different facts.

From her Facebook page: “I cannot tell you on what date I acquired it because I never acquired it. You had your facts wrong on the story about my party affiliation and you appear to have your facts wrong here as well.”

Schutze who has made known his affinity for Rodriguez’s opponent appearsa to be working not as opinion writer, but PR person for the pro-reform movement. Like, the Dallas Morning News, which launched its own attacks againsts against Rodriguez following Schutze’s lead has done scant coverage of the auditor report issues from February or why Marshall avoids responding to questions about his federal referral on the matter.

School Board Election

The school board runoff election is Tuesday, December 8, 2020. The race pits Dustin Marshall – the incumbent – behind Rodriguez who only raised $27000 going into the general election, but who took nearly 28,000 votes to marshall’s 24,775.

While the races are officially nonpartisan, Marshall has received large support from Empower Texans and other hard right interests. The campaign season has been noticably bereft of any serious discussion as to why students are failing in Dallas despite a decade of pro-business reform movement policies.

November 16, 2020December 28, 2020

Dallas MAGA Supporters Attack Woman

Two Dallas MAGA supporters attack an unarmed woman on Ervay Street in Dallas per video from this weekend. They are claiming she threw eggs at them during a Trump Train Parade.

The suspects in this case operate out of Pantego, Texas, a small city adjacent to Arlington, Texas. They are Trevor Turnbow and Chris Covington.

Turnbow turned to social media to say he would not be firing himself after calls were made to Turnbow Construction.

Dallas Police Department has not responded to a request for comment as of this post.

Dallas MAGA Supporters Attack – Again

Dallas has had multiple incidents recently including a Nazi swastika painted on a city parking garage. This summer a Boogaloo Boy posted on Faxcebook his intent to “hunt antifa.” He was later arrested for illegally selling steroids by federal officials.

November 15, 2020November 15, 2020

#BREAKING: Dallas ISD Considering Return To Virtual Only Instruction

Virtual only instruction may be returning to Dallas ISD after the Thanksgiving Break per two sources in Dallas ISD administration meaning another major change to the Dallas ISD calendar.

Dallas ISD has shut down Caillet Elementary, a 586-student campus located in Northwest Dallas, this week over concerns about the coronavirus spreading among the school’s staff and students.

Virtual only instruction, or online classes, were mandated after five positive cases among staff and students within the span of a week.

The campus is the second school in Dallas ISD to be temporarily closed because of COVID19 concerns. Hotchkiss Elemenyary was closed in mid-October for three days, allowing school administrators and central staff to track down those who might have been in contact with positive cases, and perform a deep clean of the school.

Caillet will be closed until Nov. 17 when in-person instruction is expected to resume. On Nov. 16, rapid COVID tests will be provided to teachers and staff in the morning, and students in the afternoon.

According to the DISD’s tracker, there have been close to 900 cases of COVID19 among staff, teachers and students since the district started reporting data October 5, 2020. Almost a third of those cases have happened since the start of November, reflecting a larger trend of cases in Dallas County and Texas.

The state is closing in on one million confirmed cases of COVID-19, and Dallas County hit a single-day record on Tuesday, with 1,401 cases.

Jennifer Finley, the district’s director of health services, said that county health officials have indicated that there’s likely a wave of cases on the way.

With the holiday season — and flu season — right around the corner, and a general level of “COVID fatigue” in the community, Finley said she could potentially see a rise in cases within the school system.

COVID response teams have been created on each campus, and the district has been “trying to ramp up” its staff for contact tracing, Finley said, “as to not exceed our bandwidth” if cases at schools do start to climb.

At the beginning of the month, Dallas County officials reported 1500 new cases per day. Dallas County has clearly returned as a hot zone for infection rate well beyond our July numbers.

What Does A Return To Virtual Only Instruction Mean?

Dallas ISD’s Board of Trustees had already planned to take up lowering educational goals due to COVID19 at their Thursday, November 19 Board of Trustees meeting. Now it appears they will also consider a return to virtual only instruction predicting lowered standards will become the norm.

It is not clear if teachers whose pay is based on student success will enjoy this same standard on goal changes with a move back to virtual only instruction.

It should be noted that two Trustees have already gone on record saying if possible students should be learning virtually.

November 13, 2020November 13, 2020

Our Calling: Homeless Left In Cold

Our Calling Left In Cold Caring For Homeless

Our Calling and the homeless were left out in the cold when Our Calling, located just outside Downtown Dallas, was not included when Dallas City Council approved an exception for churches to operate as emergency homeless shelters during extreme cold.

City Council and staff has worked for years on a policy that would create a legal way for churches to open their doors to the homeless on freezing nights. Staff from Our Calling said a change made in the final hour will now leave 270 people out in the cold.

“I think what they are communicating is they don’t care about minorities that are poor, and they sure don’t want them Downtown, and now they don’t even want them a half mile away from Downtown,” said Pastor Wayne Walker, with Our Calling, which is a discipleship ministry to the unsheltered homeless.

Two years ago, the city gave Pastor Wayne Walker a citation for sheltering the homeless during a freezing night.

Our Calling is located immediately outside Downtown, near The Cedars, a community experiencing economic revitalization, bringing calls of racism and privilege.

Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Adam Medrano, Adam Bazaldua, and Omar Narvaez – the Woke Caucus as some refer to them – seemed to justify limiting the homeless at Our Calling.

“We are listening to our constituents, we have enough shelter Downtown. We do. This was supposed to spread it out throughout the city,” said Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Adam Medrano.

This same constituency pushed defunding the police earlier in the year and re-programming funds away from the police department. Their previous stances seem more in favor of bike lanes than actually social services for those in need.

Earlier this year these same members of City Council were prepared to push through $1.9M in CARES Act funding for the Lorenzo Hotel until D12 City Council Member Cara Mendelsohn called attention to the issue.

Additionally, these more challenged socioeconomic areas of Dallas received a smaller percentage of the city rental assistance program than their more wealthy neighbors.

Our Calling

Our Calling is on the frontline of the battle to cure homelessness. They’re on the streets every day meeting the unsheltered homeless of Dallas County, learning their stories, identifying their needs, and theysay connecting their hearts to Christ. We have formed lasting connections with thousands of individuals who we are proud to be able to include among our friends.

November 11, 2020November 11, 2020

November COVID19

The November COVID19 numbers continue to be a headache for both local politicians, businesses, and residents as cases are rising quicker than expected. On Tuesday Dallas County health officials reported 1400 more COVID19 cases — all presumed new and the highest single-day total of the pandemic.

In July, Dallas was considered a “hot zone” because we were averaging more than two hundred cases per day. Dallas is now running between five and seven times that number. This may cause local hospitals to move to a surge capacity model.

Currently, the county is running out of available hospital beds. Per county data, the inventory of adult ICU beds was 52 as of Tuesday — one of its lowest points since the virus’s peak in July. The figure does not include beds that hospitals can add if needed. Each hospital has its own surge plan, which could include doubling up beds in rooms and converting surgical centers, but COVID19 is not the only user of bed space.

Every fall and winter elderly patients suffering from influenza use ICU space. Additionally, victims of car wrecks, heart attacks, and strokes all need these beds also.

“We are 7-10 days away from reaching our highest COVID hospitalization census to date if we do not immediately renew our resolve and change our behaviors,” County Judge Clay Jenkins said in a written statement.

According to Jenkins’ chief of staff, Lauren Trimble, Dallas County epidemiologists have recently spent less time sorting through which cases came from the state’s reporting system, since there have been so few older or backlogged cases.

Health officials use hospitalizations, ICU admissions, and emergency room visits as COVID19 tracking metrics to evaluate impact in Dallas. In the 24-hour period that ended Monday, 479 COVID-19 patients were in acute care in hospitals in the county. During the same period, 431 ER visits were for symptoms of the disease.

Dallas ISD November COVID19 Numbers

The cases in Dallas ISD are no better.

Between the first day back, October 5, 2020, and November 9, 2020, Dallas ISD is reporting an eighteen fold increase in COVID19 cases. This rise is occuring in all areas: central staff, school staff, and students. These numbers seem to match Dallas County at large which recently reported 1500 cases in a single day.