Shandra Hodge speaks out about her son’s death at the hands of state troopers in 2019.
Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot was among those who didn’t support troopers’ traffic enforcement campaign, although he initially backed their coming to the city to help address the rising murder rate. In hindsight, he told the Texas Observer, “There may have been a temporary effect on public safety but not long-term. There is nothing about stopping people for traffic violations that address the murder rate.
Former Dallas City Council Member Lee Kleinman, who oversaw a community up north, didn’t get any troopers in his district, even though he offered to take them off South Dallas’ hands after leaders pushed back against their heavy concentration there. Despite his willingness to accept troopers, he bristles at the narrative that the DPS partnership is necessary because of short staffing. “They’re not deploying resources [properly],” he said.
“DPS in Dallas was sort of like a solution in search of a problem,” said Blerim Elmazi, one of the lawyers representing Hodge. Elmazi said the people of South Dallas paid a high price for the mostly low-level citations that Troopers issued: “How many lives were lost? How many people had their rights violated? How many people were racially profiled or harassed by DPS officers in South Dallas? That’s incalculable.
She threw some things in a bag and started to drive to Dallas. Her cousin called her while she was driving to tell her it was state troopers who had shot Schaston, that they had “killed [her] baby.” “Then I lost it,” she said. “I pulled over in the Woodlands and just started screaming.” “Whether justice comes at the end of the day, that has yet to be determined,” Elmazi said. “But we told [Hodge], there is some level of accountability by just serving that lawsuit and making them answer for what they did.”
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