Per eyewitnesses and social media accounts, Dallas Love Field airport was “on lockdown” after an individual ran through a TSA checkpoint.
Dallas Love Field Airport confirmed that an individual did breach the TSA checkpoint. It led to a brief halt of passenger screening, but “there was no impact to flight operations.”
Dallas Love Field Security Breach Adds To Unruly Passenger Wave
According to FAA data, there have been more than 3500 unruly passenger incidents in 2021 as of July 20, 2021.
Passengers at Dallas Love Field posted to Twitter said that the waits were far longer than the fifteen minutes the airport claimed.
This is the second incident at Love Field in just over a week. The first was the arrival of a passenger from Nigeria with monkeypox – a rare condition similar to smallpox.
The Dallas Police Department will hold services honoring the Faithful Fallen – the officers who lost their lives on July 7, 2016 – while performing their duties.
The City of Dallas is says everyone is encouraged to join the ceremony on Wednesday, July 7, 2021 at 10:00AM.
A March to the Memorial will start at 10:00AM at Griffin at Young Street and continue to the memorial location, 500 South Akard Street.
The memorial is expected to include several members of Dallas City Council who just thirteen months ago were proposing to defund DPD.
District 4 Council Member Carolyn King Arnold expressed her “heartfelt sentiments for the commitment of all law enforcement officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty” and sends her condolences to the families of these brave officers.
Faithful Fallen Assailant
Micah Xavier Johnson ambushed a group of Dallas Police Department officers shooting and killing five officers and injuring nine others. Two civilians were also wounded. Johnson was also an Army Reservist who served in Afghanistan.
Johnson was “loosely affiliated” with several groups including South Dallas’ Muhammad Mosque No. 48, which is run by members of Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam.
A house fire occurred last night at 400 N Peak, Dallas, leading to the rescue of a woman from an upstairs bedroom and per an unofficial Dallas Fire Twitter account a criminal investigation.
We are waiting on details of how many citations were issued and fireworks conficscated after watching events like the above in South Oak Cliff last night.
City staff say anyone in possession of, or using, fireworks will have them confiscated and a citation will be issued. Fines can be up to $2,000. However in 2020 Dallas Fire Rescue and the Dallas Police Department together confiscated nearly half ton of fireworks (900 pounds) and only issued eleven citations.
It is unclear if Dallas’ 9-1-1 Call Center is fully staffed to handle the increased calls expected over the holiday weekend.
A man is dead and community members are blaming SBA suicide and Brillient Corporation for the death. The man went missing Thursday night was found late Friday dead by suicide per Dallas Police and community sources.
Per sources the man had been an applicant to the federal Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and been denied despite facing significant hardship to his small business since COVID19.
A representative for US Senator Sherrod Brown, Chairman of the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, declined comment. Our emails then played Congressional ping pong where we were pointed to the communications team from the Senate Banking Committee to Small Business Committee all of which also declined comment.
SBA or SBA Contractor Issues
One focal point is a group called Brillient Corporation which does contract work for the US Government.
In addition to the new suicide, we have identified not less than five local businesses being denied PPP or Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) to women and minority owned businesses by Brillient.
There is no clear pattern to the denials and in two cases the denials stated “could not verify business existed.” Both businesses were found using the Texas Comptoller of Accounts business entity search function in moments.
SBA Suicide and Economic Development Issues Locally
SBA has had repeated issues with program red tape.
During a photo op recently staff for Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh stopped questions about these programs from another business asking why SBA was being unclear and unfair in administration of its programs.
Dallas Police Department Officer Tyrone Williams was arrested for Sexual Assault of a Child. He was transported and booked into the Lew Sterret Justice Center.
Tyrone Williams – One Of Many Criminal DPD Officers
Dallas Police have suffered numerous officers acting poorly in the past year. Earlier in 2021, Keith Huber was arrested for Family Violence Assault – Bodily Injury.
Additionally, a DPD Officer arrested in Fort Worth has an interesting history. Dallas police officer, Senior Corporal Daniel Collins, was arrested Thursday on a charge of transportation of child pornography, officials said. According to his Facebook page he appears to also be a self avowed “ISIS hunter.”
Another officer, Brian Deininger, continues to lead field sobriety training despite his own issues with alcohol impairment behind the wheel.
An early morning Fair Park raid by the Dallas Police Department in conjunction with the FBI resulted in almost two dozen people being arrested. The raid which included four hundred agents happened west and southwest of Fair Park.
Fair Park Raid Details
Suspects arrested were connected to organized gang activity, including murder and drug sales. Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia in February had referred to drug houses as a detriment.
Despite being one of thirty-five sectors in Dallas, the area where the raid occured makes up ten percent of all violent crime in Dallas. In 2018 there were 10 murders and 315 aggravated assaults in the area. In 2020, murders more than doubled to 23 and Agg Assaults was 485.
Federal authorities, including the FBI, said the area where the raid happened is one of the most violent areas in the Metroplex, and Dallas police said the area makes up 10% of all violent crime across the city.
An FBI taskforce called “Safer Streets,” was launched to combat violent crime in the area.
In addition to Chief Garcia, FBI Special Agent in Charge Matthew J. DeSarno, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah, DEA Dallas Special Agent in Charge Eduardo Chávez, and ATF Dallas Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey Boshek II were all present during the briefing at the FBI Dallas Headquarters.
Shah said they decided to move in now, because they feared the violence would only get worse in the summer months.
“Dallas is bracing for sure and we watch with alarm as summer will spike in the summer,” said Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah. “But the chaos of the pandemic has made everything even more volatile.”
Shah said the inclusion of federal investigators, and federal charges – which often carry steeper penalties than state charges – acts as a possible deterrent.
“The know the difference between state time and federal time, and they do not want to get federal time,” Shah explained, saying that the operation today achieved two goals: taking violent criminals off the street and sending a message to would-be-criminals that the Feds are watching.
Chief Garcia added, “the message today for the residents is simple: DPD is not alone in keeping community safe, DPD is not alone in weeding out the criminal element and DPD is not along in seeding the community with hope,” he said.
Last summer when Governor Abbott sent in the Texas Rangers to patrol much of the same area, local City Councilman Adam Bazaldua responded sharply. He was oe of the ringleaders to defund Dallas City Police last summer in favor of bike lanes, art, and solar power programs.
Dallas Police Department had two officers shot at an apartment off Bonita per one source. So far Dallas Police PIOs have not confirmed this information as it is an active incident.
Sources state that the two officers are in “stable condition.”
Officers Shot – SWAT On Scene
Dallas SWAT is on scene and more than twenty units had formed up at a Command Post.
This follow an incident where officers were shot at earlier in the month leading to the discovery of three dead. In November, officers were attacked near the city border with Mesquite.
Chief Eddie Garcia came out swinging saying drug houses a detriment to our neighborhoods in a tweet just two days after a Dallas City Council Public Safety committee meeting focused on drug arrests.
Drug houses are a detriment to our city. Today, Dallas SWAT served a warrant at a high risk location. 6 people were arrested for narco. But, it was the 10th time in 3 yrs we’ve hit this location. My message to landlords: Be warned, be responsible or we WILL hold YOU accountable.
On Monday, new Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia halted a resolution to stop arrests for small amounts of marijuana at his very first Public Safety Committee meeting.
A City Council resolution against arrests for less than two ounces of marijuana has been under review for months since Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot began refusing to prosecute those cases.
Drug Houses A Detriment To More Than Neighborhoods
During the meeting Garcia noted, “The real victims were those businesses in that area that have to struggle with drug dealers posting up in front of their business and having a 24-hour weed sale in front of their businesses. That is something that certainly affects our city.”
Dallas Police Monitor Tonya McClary, who runs the Officer of Community Police Oversight, said 6,000 misdemeanor cases last year, including many for small amounts of marijuana, unfairly targeted African Americans. She complained these arrests leave them with harmful criminal records.
Garcia said you can not arrest your way our of crime and that he intends to have a new violent crime plan by April.
Garcia has been on the job for only one week, but faces an uphill battle with three dead this weekend in an apartment shooting. He is also not following in the steps of his predecessor, Reneé Hall, who was cozy with violent criminals leading to her leaving early after it was disclosed.
Tonight three dead in Northeast Dallas after Dallas Police Department officers responded to a reported active shooter.
Dallas Police had been called to the active shooter incident in the 9800 block of Summerwood Circle at 4:30 p.m.
As officers approached the scene, one of their vehicles were hit and they retreated to safety and activated SWAT.
Officers entered the scene after 7:00 p.m. finding two dead women and a dead man at the incident. Per reports, Dallas Police did not fire their weapons.
Three Dead In Northeast Dallas – Hard Start For Eddie Garcia’s Tenure
Chief Garcia was introduced to Dallas in late December after his selection and he has been on the job for less than a week. Reducing violent crime was task number one for the new chief after his predecessor saw crime rates skyrocket.
