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Effective immediately by executive order of Mayor Sylvester Turner, body camera footage from all police-involved shootings which involves a display of excessive force or the death of someone in custody, will be made public within 30 days.
However, to the expected disappointment of many in the community, that change in policy will not be retroactive meaning it will not include any video of disputed and controversial encounters between police and civilians such as occurred with the Harding Street Raid in which two people were killed.
He began the press conference by referencing his executive order on June 10, 2020 which came the day after George Floyd s funeral, in which he banned excessive use of force, banning chokeholds, requiring that officers have a duty to intervene, restricting when officers can shoot at moving vehicles among other matters.
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The Texas House on Friday quickly approved three police reform measures that are part of a sweeping set of legislation following the in-custody murder of George Floyd last year.
State Rep. Senfronia Thompson, lead author of the bills and the omnibus George Floyd Act, said on the House floor Thursday that the disciplinary measure was about fairness and accountability.
“The bill is by no means a cookie-cutter process,” said Thompson, D-Houston. “Every case of officers’ misconduct is different. But so are other crimes in this state.”
Man who raped Montgomery County woman at knife-point receives 45 years in prison
Evidence collected in case connected Jorge Arturo Mar Jr. to four other Harris County rape cases, authorities say
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HOUSTON – A jury sentenced a man to 45 years in prison after he was convicted in a 2018 rape of a Montgomery County woman.
Jorge Arturo Mar Jr., 26, was convicted on charges of aggravated sexual assault. He will not be eligible for parole until 2041.
A news release from Montgomery County authorities said that during trial, the state presented evidence that on August 1, 2018, Mar raped the woman at knifepoint in his vehicle in Spring. After the rape, Mar stole the woman’s phone and left her stranded. The woman was eventually able to call 911, and deputies from the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office responded.
Man, 19, charged with aggravated assault of a police officer in Houston
Authorities investigate an officer-involved shooting on Bonhomme Road.
HOUSTON - A man who allegedly fired shots at a Houston police officer and was then wounded by an officer has been charged.
Kalum Gregory, 19, is charged with aggravated assault of a police officer.
The incident began around 4 a.m. Tuesday morning in the 9300 block of Harwin Drive.
According to HPD, Officer T. Zhang saw a suspicious gold Ford Taurus with its headlights off pull away from a business and drive at a high rate of speed.
Police say the Taurus turned onto a street with a grassy dead-end, crossed the grassy field onto the mainlanes of the Westpark Tollway and then took the Fondren exit.