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Texas House passes bail bill that would ban pretrial release in some violent cases, require statewide use of risk model The Damon Allen Act, named for a slain state trooper, faces an uncertain fate in the Senate, which passed a significantly different bail bill. Protesters who marched on Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge while demonstrating against police brutality on Monday, June 1, 2020, in Dallas were transported to the Dallas County Jail where they were later released. A bill passed by the Texas Ho...

Updated 3 hours ago NBCUniversal, Inc. A former Dallas Police Officer released from jail earlier this month after his murder charges were dropped made his first public appearance Thursday. Bryan Riser declined to talk, citing the still ongoing investigation but gestured his support to faith leaders and community members who gathered to demand Riser get his job back and receive an apology from the Dallas Police Department. Download our NBC DFW mobile app for Apple or Android to get alerts for lo...

Election security, American Airlines losses, gun laws, Chief Garcia Readers reply to Bryan Hughes’ voting challenge; reject federal laws on state voters; offer ideas on airline’s mounting losses; support gun statutes on the books; and raise hopes for Dallas’ police chief. Texas State Sen. Bryan Hughes , R-Mineola, addresses a bill in the Texas Legislature.(Jay Janner) The answer on voter fraud Re: " ‘How much fraud is OK?’ — Dems still struggling for effective counterargument to GOP...

Investigators alleged Riser ordered the kidnapping and killing of two people in 2017, Albert Douglas and Liza Saenz. According to the DPD, one of three suspects arrested for the Saenz murder implicated Riser in the crime two years later. Three suspects were identified and arrested for kidnapping and killing Saenz and Douglas. They were 28-year-old Kevin Kidd, 31-year-old Emmanuel Kilpatrick and 35-year-old Jermon Simmons. They all face capital murder charges. But Riser’s examining trial, wh...

Share and speak up for justice, law & order... DALLAS — Dallas Chief of Police Eddie Garcia says he was disappointed to learn the charges were dropped Thursday against a former police officer arrested and accused of capital murder when prosecutors said there wasn’t enough evidence to support probable cause in the case. Garcia reiterated a statement from the agency released on Wednesday saying the department respected the judge’s decision, but they had a probable cause affidavit approved...

Dallas police officer was charged with plotting two murders. But a judge dropped the case after detective’s ‘error.’ Andrea Salcedo © Lynda M. Gonz�lez/AP Former Dallas police officer Bryan Riser sits for an examining trial in the County Criminal Court 3 at the Frank Crowley Courts Building on Wednesday, April 7, 2021, in Dallas. Riser was arrested on capital murder charges and accused of ordering hits on two people. (Lynda M. Gonzalez/the Dallas Morning News via AP) ...

Share and speak up for justice, law & order... DALLAS — A former Dallas police officer arrested on capital murder charges and fired last month has been released following a preliminary hearing Wednesday where the charges against him were dropped. Former officer Bryan Riser had been accused of ordering three men, Kevin Kidd, Emmanuel Kilpatrick and Jermon Simmons, to kill Albert Douglas and Lisa Saenz in 2017. During a preliminary hearing Wednesday morning, Dallas County Criminal Court Judge...

Judge Frees Former Dallas Police Officer Charged With Capital Murder Michael Levenson © NBC Bryan Riser, a former Dallas police officer, was released from jail on Wednesday after a prosecutor said there was not enough evidence to pursue capital murder charges against him. A judge ordered that a former Dallas police officer be released from jail on Wednesday after ruling that no probable cause existed to support charges that he had hired a man to kidnap and kill two people. Th...

Updated 14 mins ago NBCUniversal, Inc. Dallas Chief of Police Eddie Garcia says he was disappointed to learn the charges were dropped Thursday against a former police officer arrested and accused of capital murder when prosecutors said there wasnt enough evidence to support probable cause in the case. Garcia reiterated a statement from the department released on Wednesday saying the department respected the judges decision, but that they had a probable cause affidavit approved by a judge before...

Leading Off (4/8/21) Says B.J. Eliot, who is like a hip, more upbeat T.S. Eliot Im making up right this second: Hey dudes, April is the coolest month. By Alex Macon Published in FrontBurner April 8, 2021 6:45 am Former Cop Accused in Killings Now Out of Jail. Bryan Riser, a former Dallas police officer arrested last month on capital murder charges stemming from two 2017 slayings, is a free man. A judge ruled Wednesday there wasn’t enough evidence to hold him after prosecutors — who publicl...