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| Black Dallas Judge Sentences BLM Organizer of Cop Killing Protest to Prison | ||
| 2016-08-28 | ||
| Alexander has led numerous protests in the Dallas area, picketing outside the home of a University of Oklahoma fraternity member who helped lead a racist chant, demanding justice after a Grapevine officer shot an unarmed man and protesting killings of black men by police. He was a principal organizer of the protest march in downtown Dallas on July 7 that was just ending when a lone gunman ambushed police officers, killing five. Much of his activism has been through the Next Generation Action Network, a group he founded which seeks criminal justice reform. But Alexander, 27, has had several run-ins with the law. He has in the past been accused of causing a 2-year-old child severe bodily injury, forging a check, leading police on a high-speed chase and stealing a car. "It's not like I'm the first person who has been a leader who has had a troubled past," Alexander told The News last year. "It's not where you come from. It's where you're going." On Friday, District Judge Gracie Lewis decided that Alexander should spend the next two years in prison for not adhering to the terms of probation she set for him in 2011, after he pleaded guilty to a charge of serious bodily injury to a child. In his signed confession for the case, he admitted to shaking a 2-year-old boy in July 2009 and striking him with an object, court records say. Lewis gave him deferred adjudication probation, and stipulated in his probation terms that he commit no offense, not carry a firearm and report regularly to a supervisory officer, among other things. He was also ordered to take anger management and parenting classes. Initially, his probation should have ended last month. But he violated his probation terms multiple times, court records show. In December, he was arrested on allegations that he didn't pay his court-ordered fines, complete his anger management classes or finish community service.
Alexander's attorney, Kim Cole, said Friday that she is disappointed that the judge chose to send him to prison. Cole has accused law enforcement officials of deliberately going after Alexander.
Others who have been active in the local movement for policing reform said Alexander wasn't the sole leader of their movement. "There are a lot of good young activists in Next Generation," said John Fullinwider, a co-founder of Mothers Against Police Brutality. "So he deserves credit for mobilizing them. But there is no one leader of the movement against police brutality in Dallas. The movement does not rise or fall with the personal ups and downs of any activist." | ||
| Posted by:Crating Clunk2894 |
| #4 "It's not like I'm the first person who has been a leader who has had a troubled past," Alexander told The News last year. "It's not where you come from. It's where you're going." Where you're going is to prison, Numbnuts. |
| Posted by: Spanky Bluetooth8516 2016-08-28 20:24 |
| #3 They've already forgotten who he is... A live 'martyr' isn't useful to the Movement. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-08-28 13:47 |
| #2 "However, this movement is more than just Dominique Alexander and it will continue and it will be stronger," Cole said. They've already forgotten who he is... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-08-28 09:17 |
| #1 Gracie Hart in Miss Congeniality would approve, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3st-Hai1y54 |
| Posted by: lord garth 2016-08-28 00:09 |