Several Dallas police officers fired by Chief Brown

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21 August A.D. 2013

This is "local" news, and it'll be Ok for this to become a national trend.

As supportive as we are of law enforcement, and as we would likely not want to trade our work for theirs, the reality is that they do have a job to do, and that job comes with limits and standards.

With that in mind, there's another angle to consider.  With the increase in the bankruptcy of big metropolitan area "municipal corporations," and counties, etc., each community is feeling the "budget pressure" in a way that hasn't existed before in America, save, perhaps, during the Dust Bowl era.  Thus, all this "marketing" of "police state" activity is either going to have to be financed directly by the banks, at the national level, which may be what's happening via this talk about foreign troops already in "this state," or it's going to fail, because the local sources of "funding" can't continue to afford it.

Down that path, as the situation seems appropriate so to do, we don't benefit the municipal budgets by challenging the issued tickets, and we sure don't benefit the municipal budgets by asserting (legit) claims where there's a violation of rights involved.  For us to add to that "budget pressure" via such defense activity and asserting such claims, is all the more material in times of municipal "budget" distress.

A "police state" is a (very) expensive venture, and they're confirming, however subtly, that it's beyond the reach of these debt-burdened municipal budgets to afford.  As the "budget pressure" continues, there'll be more of this sort of employment-ending activity.  Where "whole jobs" can be ended and not instantly refilled, the "budget pressure" is reduced by that much.  As we learn the reality well enough to apply it, we can add that much more "budget pressure" to these municipalities that intend to violate rights as a means of generating cash flow.  Where their costs go up, so may the costs of those who engage the debate and lose.  Thus, it's just all the more important to learn ahead of time what's at issue, so as to leave them with the burden of the costs, where we're compelled to be the ones to teach them certain realities about our present legal environment.

Harmon L. Taylor
Legal Reality
Dallas, Texas

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Several Dallas police officers fired by Chief Brown

Posted: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 7:27 PM EST Updated: Wednesday, August 

21, 2013 12:11 AM EST

By: myfoxdfw.com Staff - email

Dallas police fired several officers and a civilian employee Tuesday, 

following accusations including ignoring cases, sexual assault and even 

criminally negligent homicide.

One of those fired officers, Officer Bryan Burgess, was also arrested 

and charged with criminally negligent homicide. Police say he and 

another officer ran over a man on a bicycle, then tried to cover it up.

In April, Fred Bradford, 51, was on a bike when Officer Michael Puckett 

and Burgess started chasing him.

Puckett ran after Bradford, while Burgess drove a squad car. There was a 

collision and Bradford was seriously hurt, and eventually died from 

those injuries.

The two officers claimed he'd run into the squad car, but after a series 

of investigations, the FBI was called in to investigate.

Dallas Police Chief David Brown says a tape recording of the scene from 

Puckett's phone makes it clear Burgess ran over Bradford.

Puckett and Burgess could also face tampering with evidence charges.

Senior Corporal Durman Johnson and Senior Corporal Shawn Wash were fired 

and a third, Detective Mickey East, resigned, after DPD discovered 747 

domestic violence cases were mishandled or ignored.

Other detectives had to piece together the cases from piles and boxes, 

to get charges filed before the statute of limitations ran out.

Chief Brown said the fired officers claimed their case loads were too 

heavy, but all the ignored cases in the family violence unit could be 

traced to those three detectives.

Officer Edward Antunez was fired for sexual assault. Mesquite police 

arrested him in June on the charge.

Crime Scene Analyst Cindy Kelly was fired for failing to disclose her 

November 2012 arrest on outstanding felony warrants for misappropriation 

of funds.