He has become a national celebrity for publicly supporting the George Floyd protests. But Acevedo’s record is decidedly less progressive than his rhetoric.
Police shootings
Saturday’s killing of a Fort Worth woman at the hands of a cop was followed by the usual selective shaping of the narrative by law enforcement.
The artist is advocating for a new investigation into the death of his cousin, which happened at the hands of Dallas Police.
The details continue to come out, the story looks bad on the surface.
Transparency and action after an officer-involved shooting could indicate a fundamental shift.
An Angelo State football player was shot and killed by police in Arlington over the weekend, and questions remain.
Few things rally people to a cause more quickly than the unjustified shooting of a dog.
Police violence toward humans is very much a topic in the news right now, so why does a video of an officer shooting a dog trigger a different sort of outrage?
As the situation in Ferguson, Missouri, has escalated, a Houston teen and others turned to social media to wonder how traditional media might depict them if they were shot by police.
Police shootings rarely result in indictments, and even more rarely see the officers involved convicted of felonies, which makes this incident in Conroe an outlier.