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DALLAS — The city of Dallas refuses to release a recording of the 911 call that former Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger made after she fatally shot a man in his apartment last month.
An attorney for the city said in a letter dated Monday that the Police Department and Dallas County district attorney’s office are asking Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to allow them to withhold the 911 recording, which has been requested by The Dallas Morning News.
Assistant City Attorney Pavala Armstrong wrote that releasing the information would interfere with the investigation into the Sept. 6 shooting.
The News is asking for the recording to give the public a better understanding of what happened that night at the South Side Flats apartments, blocks away from police headquarters.
Some police departments release recordings of 911 calls soon after they are made. The Dallas County district attorney’s office in recent years has sought to prevent their release, saying it would compromise investigations.
First Assistant District Attorney Mike Snipes said Tuesday that the office hoped holding back information such as the 911 calls would cut back on pretrial publicity. Snipes, the top prosecutor under District Attorney Faith Johnson, said the office wants to try the case in Dallas and not have a judge move it elsewhere in the state on grounds that jurors here have already made up their minds.
I don't have a problem holding these for the investigation but I do have a problem with the fuckery of holding a 911 call for the investigation and not that the victim may have smoked weed or had it in his apartment
This post was edited by Beowulf on Oct 5 2018 07:46am