Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott announced Tuesday night that he would deploy the National Guard &#8220;across the state&#8221; as anti-ICE protests hit major cities.
Protests against President Donald Trump&#8217;s illegal immigration crackdown started earlier this week in <a href="https://www.fox4news.com/news/dallas-joins-anti-ice-protests-immigration-crackdown-intensifies">Dallas</a> and <a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/live-blog-ice-protest-at-texas-capitol/">Austin</a>, and more demonstrations are planned for San Antonio on Wednesday and Saturday. In a <a href="https://x.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1932656855764861152">post</a> on X, Abbott said he was mobilizing the National Guard as a precautionary measure &#8220;to ensure peace &amp; order.&#8221;
&#8220;Peaceful protest is legal. Harming a person or property is illegal &amp; will lead to arrest,&#8221; the governor added. &#8220;@TexasGuard will use every tool &amp; strategy to help law enforcement maintain order.&#8221;
In Austin, the state&#8217;s capital, police used pepper spray and tear gas to disperse a group of protesters who were ignoring warnings to clear out of the street, KXAN Austin <a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/live-blog-ice-protest-at-texas-capitol/">reported</a>. Officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Austin Police Department arrested more than a dozen people during the protest Monday night, according to Abbott. During the demonstration, a federal building where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) holds detainees was vandalized with messages reading, “ICE NEEDS 2 SURRENDER &amp; RELEASE THE HOSTAGES” and “MODERN DAY SLAVERY DISGUISED AS CRIMINAL REFORM.”
Six men arrested during the Austin demonstration were charged with felony criminal mischief, resisting arrest, among other offenses, according to the <a href="https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/abbott-deploys-national-guard-san-antonio-protests-20371032.php">San Antonio Express-News</a>.
&#8220;Peaceful protesting is legal. But once you cross the line, you will be arrested,&#8221; Abbott <a href="https://x.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1932304416435998771">wrote</a> on social media early Tuesday morning, adding, &#8220;FAFO,&#8221; the acronym for &#8220;F*** Around and Find Out.&#8221;
The protest in Dallas on Monday turned &#8220;tense&#8221; as some demonstrators clashed with police officers, The Dallas Morning News <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/06/09/protestors-in-dallas-rally-to-show-solidarity-with-la-demonstrators-amid-ice-crackdowns/">reported</a>. After sunset, authorities deployed pepper spray to disperse the crowd and appeared to make some arrests.
Texas National Guard troops will be on &#8220;standby in areas where mass demonstrations are planned in case they are needed,&#8221; according to Abbott&#8217;s office. Demonstrations, organized by a group called &#8220;No Kings&#8221; are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-issues-warning-to-any-protester-that-wants-to-come-out-during-d-c-military-parade">planned</a> for cities in all 50 states on Saturday as the U.S. Army will hold a massive parade in Washington, D.C., coinciding with the president&#8217;s birthday, with Trump in attendance.
Protests, some of which have turned into <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-ice-riots-break-out-in-san-francisco-as-more-troops-deploy-to-l-a">riots</a>, have already popped up in cities across the country after anti-ICE rioters attacked law enforcement officers and damaged businesses and public property in Los Angeles last weekend. President Trump deployed the National Guard to L.A. on Saturday and then sent in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-sends-another-2000-national-guard-troops-to-l-a">reinforcements</a> days later, including 700 Marines, as he blasted Democrat officials, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass.
California then sued the Trump administration over the National Guard deployment, arguing that Trump infringed on Newsom&#8217;s power. Trump has defended his decision, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-sends-another-2000-national-guard-troops-to-l-a?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Sends+Another+2%2C000+National+Guard+Troops+To+L.A.">claiming</a> that L.A. would be &#8220;burning to the ground&#8221; without his action.

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Protests erupted in cities across the U.S. over the weekend as people hit the streets to voice opposition to President Donald Trump&#8217;s immigration policies as federal agents ramp up arrests and deportations.
Thousands of people blocked a section of the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles as they blasted Mexican music and danced in the streets on Sunday. Protesters waved Mexican and Salvadoran flags, and some carried signs that read, &#8220;MAGA — Mexicans Always Get Across,&#8221; “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you,” and “I drink my horchata warm because f— I.C.E,” The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-02/thousands-of-protesters-rally-in-downtown-los-angeles-against-trump-deportation-policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The L.A. protest lasted throughout the afternoon and evening before police in riot gear began dispersing the crowd around 7:00 p.m. The 101 Freeway was cleared and reopened by 8:00 p.m. The Los Angeles Police Department and California Highway Patrol said <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14352897/Thousands-block-LA-freeway-grammys-carrying-Mexican-flags-massive-Trump-protest.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">no arrests</a> were made.
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UPDATE: The view from the 101 Freeway overpass on Hill Street in downtown Los Angeles. The freeway is closed once again as demonstrators poured back into the lanes, after being briefly reopened at about 1:20 p.m.
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More than 1,000 people — many of them displaying Mexican flags — also <a href="https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2025-02-01/downtown-st-louis-immigration-deportation-protest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">took to the streets</a> in St. Louis on Saturday in response to Trump&#8217;s immigration policies. Hundreds more gathered in Atlanta on Saturday, waving flags from Mexico, Cuba, Guatemala, and Puerto Rico, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/protesters-along-buford-highway-condemn-ice-arrests/U7HJ7PCG7BAV5KTQV3HXDAFXM4/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. In Dallas, around 2,000 protesters <a href="https://www.keranews.org/news/2025-02-03/protesters-march-in-dallas-to-condemn-deportation-operations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">crammed</a> into Dallas City Hall Plaza on Sunday afternoon.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been conducting raids in cities across the country since Trump was sworn into office. In the first two weeks of Trump&#8217;s second term, ICE made more than 7,000 arrests, CBS Austin <a href="https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/ice-makes-arrests-on-more-than-7400-illegal-migrants-since-trump-took-office-guantanamo-bay-pete-hegseth-secretary-of-defence-immigration-customs-enforcement-donald-trump-fbi-raids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Last week, the president also directed the Department of Defense to use Guantanamo Bay to hold criminal illegal immigrants before they are repatriated to their home countries. Trump&#8217;s border czar Tom Homan <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/01/31/administration-access-immigrant-minors-data/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Washington Post that the U.S. government would &#8220;hopefully&#8221; begin using Guantanamo Bay for illegal immigrants “within 30 days.&#8221;
Trump has made immigration a top priority, sending U.S. troops to the southern border and pressuring the country&#8217;s top trading partners — Mexico and Canada — to secure their sides of the border and stop unlawful crossings and drug trafficking. Over the weekend, Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and the two countries quickly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/canada-mexico-slap-tariffs-on-u-s-after-trump-uses-trade-to-force-border-security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">retaliated</a> with 25% tariffs on U.S. goods.

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Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced last September that he was leaving the Democratic Party, saying it had lost its way. Now he&#8217;s under consideration for a prominent position in President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s cabinet, The Daily Wire has learned, and he may be forced to defend a surprisingly woke record.
Johnson is being pitched to lead the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, multiple Trump world sources told The Daily Wire. Earlier this month, he published a Fox News opinion piece titled &#8220;I’m the mayor of Dallas. My switch to the GOP last year should have been a wake-up call for Democrats.&#8221; In the piece, he says &#8220;voters are sick of a Democrat Party that prioritizes pandering over policy, political correctness over political action, and concern with personal identity over individuals’ real needs.&#8221;
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On Fox &amp; Friends <a href="https://twitter.com/Johnson4Dallas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Johnson4Dallas</a> discussed how <a href="https://twitter.com/GOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GOP</a> mayors across the country are excited to work with <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> to deliver on the promise of making our cities great again. <a href="https://t.co/BsMaQuJbNg">pic.twitter.com/BsMaQuJbNg</a>
— Republican Mayors Association (@GOPMayorsAssn) <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPMayorsAssn/status/1859249122500284920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
But the piece does not address where Johnson stands on some of the key issues that drove Americans to vote for Trump, including gender ideology. And Johnson&#8217;s social media is littered with his criticisms of Trump&#8217;s policies, as well as promotion of gender ideology and the &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; movement — <a href="https://x.com/Johnson4Dallas/status/1268942497956483073">including a proclamation</a> proclaiming June 5 as a George Perry Floyd Remembrance Day in Dallas.
In January 2017, Johnson <a href="https://x.com/Johnson4Dallas/status/826170875934281728">sent a letter</a> to Texas Governor Greg Abbott asking him to denounce Trump&#8217;s so-called &#8220;Muslim Ban.&#8221; In June 2017, he argued that former FBI Director James Comey <a href="https://x.com/Johnson4Dallas/status/872832285455921152">was far more credible</a> than Trump. In September 2017, he <a href="https://x.com/Johnson4Dallas/status/903762910769532929">mocked the notion</a> of &#8220;reverse racism&#8221; and critiqued Republicans&#8217; focus on affirmative action. In October 2017, he <a href="https://x.com/Johnson4Dallas/status/922317446127734784">claimed</a> that a Trump presidency is &#8220;everything we feared,&#8221; arguing, &#8220;stay woke,&#8221; and &#8220;resist.&#8221; In March 2018, he <a href="https://x.com/Johnson4Dallas/status/975853228553375744">praised Adam Schiff</a> for condemning the Austin bombings, claiming that Schiff was &#8220;saying and doing what our president [Trump] simply will not,&#8221; and tacking on the hashtag, #BLM.
He&#8217;s called Trump&#8217;s policies &#8220;<a href="https://x.com/Johnson4Dallas/status/838811890138628096">reckless</a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href="https://x.com/Johnson4Dallas/status/928094742247813125">embarrassing</a>,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/Johnson4Dallas/status/918646637995659265">repeatedly argued</a> Trump is &#8220;unfit for command,&#8221; and repeatedly <a href="https://x.com/Johnson4Dallas/status/993967593714257923">accused Trump</a> of seeking to dismantle Barack Obama&#8217;s legacy.
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Re <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> Exec Order: “If you stick a knife in my back 9 in &amp; pull it out 6 in, there&#8217;s no progress. If you pull it all the way out that&#8217;s not progress. Progress is healing the wound&#8230;they haven&#8217;t even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound.” Malcolm X <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/txlege?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#txlege</a>
— Mayor Eric L. Johnson (@Johnson4Dallas) <a href="https://twitter.com/Johnson4Dallas/status/1009497167893950465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 20, 2018</a></blockquote>
Since joining the Republican Party, Johnson, who did not respond to a request for comment, has become a vocal Trump supporter. He congratulated Trump on his &#8220;decisive victory&#8221; and said he was &#8220;looking forward to working with [Trump] to make Dallas and our nation safer, stronger, and more prosperous.&#8221; The Dallas Morning News reported on November 6 that Johnson was seen at Trump&#8217;s victory party on election night, <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2024/11/08/is-dallas-mayor-eric-johnson-angling-for-a-job-in-the-trump-administration/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter_dallasnews">questioning</a> whether Johnson was angling for a position within the Trump administration.  Mike Demkiw, executive director of the Republican Mayors Association, said at the time that Johnson was focused on continuing to serve Dallas.
Johnson also appears to be a staunch proponent of gender ideology, repeatedly arguing in defense of so-called &#8220;transgender youth,&#8221; meaning minor children who believe they are transgender, and he has <a href="https://x.com/Johnson4Dallas/status/924127555468382208">positively used the word</a> &#8220;woke&#8221; on a number of occasions as he describes his colleagues and friends.
&#8220;The [Texas legislature&#8217;s] bathroom bill forces vulnerable transgender Texans to be singled out and subject to further discrimination,&#8221; he <a href="https://x.com/Johnson4Dallas/status/892050310302224384">tweeted</a> in July 2017 with a transgender flag graphic that read &#8220;PROTECT TRANSGENDER YOUTH,&#8221; adding with a hashtag, &#8220;Y&#8217;all Means All.&#8221;
In another post made the same month, Johnson <a href="https://x.com/Johnson4Dallas/status/888404841269264393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">posted a graphic</a> from the radical Southern Poverty Law Center and tagged a number of prominent LGBTQ groups that support transgender procedures for children, including Equality Texas, the Human Rights Campaign, and the ACLU of Texas.
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When protestors filled the Texas Capitol in March 2017 to protest the legislation, which protected women&#8217;s spaces from men who identify as women, he tweeted, &#8220;I am proud of those standing up for Texas in opposition to the bathroom bill. This is what democracy looks like.&#8221;
In May 2018, he boasted in a social media post about his bill to &#8220;prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity,&#8221; saying that the bill &#8220;made it further than it ever had in the legislature.&#8221;
&#8220;Next year,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I hope it will finally pass. LGBTQ Texans have waited long enough.&#8221;
As mayor, Johnson created an &#8220;anti-hate&#8221; advisory council in Dallas, <a href="https://www.fox4news.com/news/dallas-mayor-creates-anti-hate-advisory-council">arguing that</a> &#8220;nobody should feel uncomfortable or unsafe in Dallas because of who they are, because of their race or ethnicity, their sexual and gender identity, their religion or their national origin.&#8221; He <a href="https://dallascityhall.com/departments/office-of-equity-and-inclusion/human-rights/DCH%20Documents/PROC%20-%20International%20Transgender%20Day%20of%20Visibility%20PDF.pdf">even issued a proclamation in 2021</a> proclaiming an &#8220;International Transgender Day of Visibility&#8221; in the city.
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Johnson&#8217;s office confirmed receipt of The Daily Wire&#8217;s press inquiry but did not address The Daily Wire&#8217;s questions.

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The man accused of drinking four beers before crashing his car into an SUV and injuring several children in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas</a> last week is an illegal immigrant from Honduras, federal immigration officials told The Daily Wire. 
Dallas police arrested Jose Luis Castro Alvarado, 20, on Saturday after they said he ran a red light at around 10:00 p.m. and crashed into an SUV, seriously injuring six children. According to police, Alvarado allegedly admitted to police that he had consumed two beers before the crash, but a passenger in his vehicle said they each drank four beers just before the crash. 
One of the children injured, a 4-year-old child who was thrown out of the vehicle, is in critical condition, <a href="https://www.fox4news.com/news/driver-crash-sent-6-children-hospital-drank-4-beers-before-getting-behind-wheel-docs-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Fox 4. He suffered multiple fractures and a lacerated liver. An injured 5-year-old required jaw surgery. 
Alvarado, a citizen of Honduras, was <a href="https://www.dallascounty.org/jaillookup/defendant_detail?recno=72003DB0-48A0-CBCD-5D6B-523F944C9BFE&amp;bookinNumber=24040552&amp;bookinDate=1727620680000&amp;dob=2003-12-09&amp;lastName=CASTRO&amp;firstName=JOSE&amp;sex=Male&amp;race=White" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> with two counts of collision involving injury, two counts of collision involving serious bodily injury, and two counts of intoxication assault with a vehicle. He is currently being held at the Kays Tower detention center in Dallas.
A spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told The Daily Wire that Alvarado illegally entered the United States around September 22, 2021, near La Joya, Texas, which is about 500 miles south of Dallas. ICE said he entered “without being inspected, admitted, or paroled by an immigration officer.”
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Alvarado cannot be released from prison because ICE placed a detainer on him after Dallas police took him into custody. 
Police said that Alvarado denied being under the influence of alcohol but that his eyes were bloodshot when they arrested him, according to an affidavit on the incident obtained by Fox 4. 
After the accident, investigators said that Alvarado ran from the scene, and a police K-9 located him hiding in the bushes in a nearby neighborhood. Police said he did not stop to check on the victims of the crash before fleeing. 
Earlier this year, the Republican-controlled House passed a <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6976/all-actions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">measure</a> that would deport non-citizens convicted of DUIs, though the legislation stalled out in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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A Dallas Police Department officer was shot and killed on Thursday night, and two others were wounded by a suspect who was later shot dead by law enforcement.
Dallas police responded to an officer in distress at around 10:00 p.m. and found him &#8220;shot in a marked squad car,&#8221; Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/dallas-police-officer-killed-2-others-injured-we-lost-one-our-own" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Police &#8220;exchanged gunfire with a suspect at the scene,&#8221; and two other officers were wounded, including one who is in critical condition.
After shooting and killing the police officer, the suspect fled in a vehicle and drove around 30 miles away to Lewisville. Responding officers chased the suspect, and the pursuit ended with the suspect exiting his car with a long gun before he was shot and killed by police officers.
The family of the slain Dallas officer identified him on Friday as 46-year-old Darron Burks, The Dallas Morning News <a href="https://archive.ph/7pc8a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Burks was a former school teacher who had recently graduated from the police academy. The officers who were wounded in the shooting have not yet been named.
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&#8220;We ask tonight and this morning for the thoughts and prayers of our city, for not only those who are recovering in the hospital but for our fallen, for their family, and for their loved ones, and for us as a department as well,&#8221; said Dallas Police spokeswoman Kristin Lowman. She added that &#8220;our department is hurting&#8221; and &#8220;we have officers who are injured who are in the hospital and we lost one of our own.&#8221;
Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia simply posted on X, &#8220;No words.&#8221;
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— Eddie Garcia (@DPDChiefGarcia) <a href="https://twitter.com/DPDChiefGarcia/status/1829461031803883797?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The department said flags at its facilities will fly at half-staff for the fallen officer.
On July 7, 2016, a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/09/us/dallas-police-shooting.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sniper</a> who sought to gun down white cops killed five officers in Dallas in retaliation for alleged racially biased policing. Since then, eight more Dallas PD officers have been <a href="https://dallaspolice.net/abouts/fallenOfficers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed</a> in the line of duty.
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Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson blasted the Democratic Party just weeks after jumping ship for being weak on violent crime and attempting to “defund the police.&#8221; 
Johnson, who made headlines last month for switching to the Republican Party, was asked about crime policies being one of the reasons for his switch during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday” with host Shannon Bream. He said that he decided to “do things differently” than other Democrats who were calling for reallocating financial support away from the police despite persistent and <a href="https://crim.sas.upenn.edu/fact-check/violent-crime-increasing#:~:text=Violent%20crime%20recently%20has%20been,increases%20have%20continued%20into%202022." target="_blank" rel="noopener">rising</a> violent crime throughout the country. 
“What I’ve seen across the country, too often I think that Democrats primarily is what I’m talking about because that’s who controls most of the major cities in this country – 75 of the top 100 cities in the country are run by Democrats – the problem has become that Democrats were not willing, I think, to say that violent crime is a problem in their city and that it’s a problem that they could actually do something about,” Johnson said. 
“In Dallas, I dug in pretty firmly against this whole idea of defunding the police and I said, ‘We’re gonna do things differently here,’ and we’ve had different results,” Johnson told Bream. 
The Republican mayor said Democrats tend to blame violent crime on society, the education system, and the economy, which he says “have always been present.&#8221; Current levels of homicide and other violent crimes, the mayor argues, have not always been as high. 
Johnson also brushed off criticism from a Democrat city council member who claimed that Dallas has become one of the safest large cities in the country because of the Democrat-controlled city council. The mayor said the council “eventually” came to agree with him on crime-reduction policies. 
“We were all Democrats at the time,” the mayor said, noting he only switched political parties recently. “It was always a challenge and there were reasons why we had a lot of disagreements, there was a lot of coverage for a long time about a lot of the arguments and a lot of the debates that happened around Dallas City Hall around how we need to respond to requests to defund our police.”
The mayor said that the city council did propose amendments to defund its police department, but he said those were proposed “largely symbolically” and had no legitimate policy reason. According to Johnson, the proposals had the money allocated for things like solar panels and environmental issues – things that “have nothing to do” with the safety of a city during a “crime spike.” 
In September, Johnson, a longtime Democrat, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/longtime-democrat-dallas-mayor-switching-to-gop-american-cities-need-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">switched</a> to the Republican Party, though his office is technically nonpartisan. In an <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-cities-need-republicans-and-im-becoming-one-dallas-texas-mayor-965dbaa4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed</a> for The Wall Street Journal, he said Dallas has “thrived” under his leadership while Democrat policies in other big cities have worsened homelessness and crime. 
“The future of America’s great urban centers depends on the willingness of the nation’s mayors to champion law and order and practice fiscal conservatism,” Johnson wrote. “Our cities desperately need the genuine commitment to these principles (as opposed to the inconsistent, poll-driven commitment of many Democrats) that has long been a defining characteristic of the GOP.” 
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He told Bream that the Democratic Party &#8220;doesn&#8217;t represent&#8221; his values regarding &#8220;law and order&#8221; because the Left has policies that &#8220;embolden the criminal element&#8221; in cities, including calls to &#8220;defund the police&#8221; and not prosecuting certain crimes. These policies, Johnson argues, &#8220;demoralize the police department.&#8221;
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WATCH: Mayor <a href="https://twitter.com/Johnson4Dallas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Johnson4Dallas</a> on his decision to switch political parties and his city&#39;s crackdown on crime. <a href="https://t.co/NwL4kraTZo">pic.twitter.com/NwL4kraTZo</a>
&mdash; Fox News Sunday (@FoxNewsSunday) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNewsSunday/status/1718637145739411800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Mayor Explains Party Switch To GOP, Says Dems Won’t Admit Violent Crime Is An Issue

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Democratic Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Friday that he will switch his party affiliation to Republican. 
Johnson, who served nine years as a Democrat in the Texas Legislature before being elected mayor in 2019, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-cities-need-republicans-and-im-becoming-one-dallas-texas-mayor-965dbaa4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> that “American cities need Republicans — and Republicans need American cities.” 
“I have no intention of changing my approach to my job. But today I am changing my party affiliation,” Johnson added. “Next spring, I will be voting in the Republican primary. When my career in elected office ends in 2027 on the inauguration of my successor as mayor, I will leave office as a Republican.” 
Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott celebrated Johnson’s decision to leave the Democratic Party and join the GOP. While Johnson’s position is technically nonpartisan, his party switch makes Dallas the second major Texas city to be led by a mayor affiliated with the Republican Party along with Fort Worth, The Texas Tribune <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/22/dallas-mayor-eric-johnson-republican/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
“Texas is getting more Red every day. Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson switches to Republican Party,” Abbott said. “He’s pro law enforcement &amp; won’t tolerate leftist agendas. Two of the 10 largest cities in America now have Republican Mayors &amp; they are both in Texas.”
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Texas is getting more Red every day. 
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson switches to Republican Party. 
He’s pro law enforcement &amp; won’t tolerate leftist agendas. 
Two of the 10 largest cities in America now have Republican Mayors &amp; they are both in Texas. <a href="https://t.co/Qn9SM7UZ1G">https://t.co/Qn9SM7UZ1G</a>
&mdash; Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1705251728432521468?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Johnson pointed to “law and order” and “fiscal conservatism” as major factors that convinced him the platform of the Republican Party was better suited to lead Dallas and other U.S. cities forward. The city has seen a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dallas-police-will-force-residents-to-report-some-offenses-online-instead-of-calling-911" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent rise</a> in violent crime after two years of violent crime rates going down while the Dallas Police Department has faced staffing shortages following the anti-police sentiment that gained traction following the death of George Floyd in 2020. 
“I don’t believe I can stay on the sidelines any longer,” Johnson wrote. “I have always tried to be honest and say what I think is right for my city. The future of America’s great urban centers depends on the willingness of the nation’s mayors to champion law and order and practice fiscal conservatism. Our cities desperately need the genuine commitment to these principles (as opposed to the inconsistent, poll-driven commitment of many Democrats) that has long been a defining characteristic of the GOP.”
The Dallas mayor said Democratic policies have led to the “disarray” of many cities across the country as places like New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia face spikes in violent crime. 
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“Mayors and other local elected officials have failed to make public safety a priority or to exercise fiscal restraint. Most of these local leaders are proud Democrats who view cities as laboratories for liberalism rather than as havens for opportunity and free enterprise,” Johnson wrote. 
“Too often, local tax dollars are spent on policies that exacerbate homelessness, coddle criminals and make it harder for ordinary people to make a living,” the mayor added. “And too many local Democrats insist on virtue signaling — proposing half-baked government programs that aim to solve every single societal ill — and on finding new ways to thumb their noses at Republicans at the state or federal level. Enough. This makes for good headlines, but not for safer, stronger, more vibrant cities.”

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Longtime Democrat Dallas Mayor Switching To GOP: ‘American Cities Need Republicans’

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dallas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dallas</a> Police Department will require residents to fill out some police reports online instead of calling 911 to free officers to respond to more serious crimes.
The new reporting requirements will go into effect on July 3 as the police department has faced an increase in high-priority calls and staffing shortages. Chief Eddi García said Tuesday that the new system will help lessen officers’ workloads and reduce their response time for emergencies, the Dallas Morning News <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dallas-residents-must-soon-report-some-offenses-online-to-free-up-officers-for-more-serious-crimes/ar-AA1cOtKu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“We have to think about our men and women and the stress that they’re under and the constant calls,” García said during a news conference. “We have to make the working conditions of our men and women better and, at the same time, not sacrifice the service for our community — and I think this achieves that.”
Officers will no longer respond to calls for crimes such as motor vehicle burglaries, credit or debit card abuse, harassment through texts or phone calls unrelated to family violence, identity theft, reckless damage, graffiti, burglary of a coin machine, lost property, and theft and shoplifting under $2,500. Dallas police officers will also no longer respond to minor accidents when no one is injured and the vehicles are operable.
The city saw a rise in violent crime at the beginning of 2023 after two years of violent crime rates going down, Fox 4 <a href="https://www.fox4news.com/news/dallas-murder-aggravated-assaults-2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Homicides were up nearly 10%, and aggravated assault was up 15% in January 2023 compared to January 2022.
“We know firsthand in an emergency every second counts,” García remarked. “We want our officers to be available to respond quickly and efficiently to any high priority call.”
The department directed those who don’t own a computer or smartphone to use a kiosk at a police substation or a computer at a local library to file a report. According to Dallas Police 911 Administrator Robert Uribe, a voluntary process to get people to report non-emergency crimes online failed because people prefer an officer physically responding to their calls. After July 3, those who dial 911 for a call required to be reported online will be instructed on how to fill out an online report at <a href="https://dallaspolice.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dallaspolice.net</a>.
Garcia said the department is short about 500 officers after hundreds left during a pension crisis in 2016-2017. There are currently 3,023 sworn officers on the force, according to Dallas Police spokeswoman Kristin Lowman, the Dallas News reported.
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“We need to grow and we’re trying to grow as quickly as possible,” García said. “Our recruiting unit is working as hard as it can. But certainly, when we look at the staffing numbers where the city is today as opposed [to] when it was a smaller city years ago, those are obvious.”

Dallas Police Will Force Residents To Report Some Offenses Online Instead Of Calling 911

Dallas Residents Will Be Forced To Report Some Offenses Online Instead Of Calling 911

The man charged with stealing a pair of monkeys from the Dallas Zoo is also behind the other animal escapes, and he says he&#8217;ll do it again.
According to police affidavits obtained by the <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2023/02/06/man-jailed-in-dallas-zoo-crimes-plans-to-steal-more-animals-if-released-affidavits-say/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dallas Morning News</a>, the suspect, 24-year-old Davion Irvin, said he was behind at least three of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dallas-zoo-monkeys-go-missing-recovered-by-police-latest-in-a-string-of-critter-capers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">four animal disappearances</a> that took place in January. The suspect also said flatly that if he is released, he will attempt to take more animals. Irvin is charged with multiple counts of animal cruelty for stealing the monkeys last week.
According to the police affidavits, Irvin was asking obscure questions about various animals on display at the zoo, and how they are moved around. “Where do y’all get the monkeys from and how do y’all shift them around?” he reportedly asked a zookeeper. The affidavits said that he asked the same questions about the zoo&#8217;s tigers.
Two days before he allegedly stole the emperor tamarins, he asked a zookeeper similar questions about them. “Where can [I] get one and how do y’all get them in at night?” Irvin reportedly asked a zookeeper on January 29, according to the affidavits. “How do you catch the birds and where do they go at night?” he said separately. The affidavits said that he wrote the zookeeper&#8217;s answers on a piece of tissue paper.
He posed the same line of questions to another employee near the clouded leopard and langur monkey exhibit. “How do you handle them and are they aggressive?” he asked. Irvin is currently accused of cutting open the langur monkey enclosure, though none were taken.
Later on, Irvin was seen entering a staff-only area. He was asked to leave, and a zoo employee followed him around the zoo until he went home.
His first attempt came on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-kitty-kitty-dallas-zoo-calls-escaped-non-dangerous-leopard-a-serious-situation-twitter-users-not-so-much" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 13</a>. Irvin reportedly told police that he entered the zoo with the intent to take the big cat, named Nova, “but could only manage to pet it” because she leapt to the top of her enclosure and he was “unable to retrieve it.&#8221; Then on the night of January 29, he waited until nightfall, then jumped a fence and headed for the emperor tamarin exhibit.
He then “cut the metal mesh, went through the door, cut the enclosure where the monkeys were in and took them.” He then boarded a light rail train and took them to the vacant home where they were eventually recovered.
Irvin also told police that he &#8220;loved animals,&#8221; and that he plans to return to the zoo and steal animals again if he is released from jail; he reportedly outlined his plans to police.
Police announced on Friday that they had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-arrest-suspect-in-dallas-zoo-monkey-napping">arrested</a> Irvin in connection with the disappearance of the emperor tamarins. The pair of emperor tamarins named Bella and Finn, were stolen early last Tuesday, but were found and returned the same day.
Police reportedly received a tip on social media that the suspect had been spotted at an abandoned home in nearby Lancaster. That house had caught the attention of neighbors because it had been previously broken into and animals had been found inside, the <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2023/02/03/arrest-made-in-connection-with-2-monkeys-taken-from-dallas-zoo-police-say/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dallas Morning News</a> reported. Police responded to the tip and found the house unlocked and unoccupied. Officers found the tamarins, as well as several cats and pigeons, inside.
He is <a href="https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-police-arrest-man-in-connection-with-monkeys-taken-from-dallas-zoo/3185833/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> with six counts of animal cruelty, non-livestock. He is currently being held on several bonds totaling some $25,000.

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Suspect In Dallas Zoo Monkey-Napping Was Behind Other Animal Disappearances, And Says He’ll Do It Again

Suspect In Dallas Zoo Monkey-Napping Was Behind Other Animal Disappearances, And Says He'll Do It Again If Released From Jail

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A man has been arrested and charged in connection with a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dallas-zoo-monkeys-go-missing-recovered-by-police-latest-in-a-string-of-critter-capers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pair of monkeys stolen</a> from the Dallas Zoo.
Dallas police made the announcement at a press conference Friday. The suspect, who was reportedly the same person police were looking for Tuesday, is charged with multiple counts of animal cruelty. The monkeys, a pair of emperor tamarins named Bella and Finn, were stolen early Tuesday, but were found and returned the same day.
&#8220;On Thursday night, Dallas police arrested Davion Irvin, 24, in connection with the emperor tamarin monkey case here at the Dallas Zoo,&#8221; DPD spokeswoman Kristin Lowman said at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1HJCbxD-c8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press conference</a>. &#8220;Preliminary investigation and help from the public identified him as the man we were looking to speak to regarding this case.&#8221;
According to police, they received a tip shortly after posting the suspect&#8217;s photo on social media. That tip said that multiple people had seen the suspect at a vacant house in nearby Lancaster, where the monkeys were later found. That house had caught the attention of neighbors because it had been previously broken into and animals had been found inside, the <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2023/02/03/arrest-made-in-connection-with-2-monkeys-taken-from-dallas-zoo-police-say/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dallas Morning News</a> reported. Police responded to the tip and found the house unlocked and unoccupied. Officers found the tamarins, as well as several cats and pigeons, inside.
The suspect appeared to have thoroughly planned out his primate pilfering. According to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by the Dallas Morning News, several days before he allegedly stole the monkeys, Irvin began asking strange questions of zoo staff, which included “obscure questions such as practices in housing and moving of animals”; and specific questions about the emperor tamarins, including how to care for them; as well as the “status and location” of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-kitty-kitty-dallas-zoo-calls-escaped-non-dangerous-leopard-a-serious-situation-twitter-users-not-so-much" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clouded leopard</a> that went missing in January. The suspect was also reportedly seen entering areas and looking through windows around the enclosure which are not open to the public.
A separate tip led police to arrest Irvin. He was spotted Thursday at the Dallas World Aquarium, wearing the same style and color of clothing as in the photo shared on social media by police. According to an Aquarium spokesman, Irvin stopped to ask an employee questions about one of the aquarium&#8217;s animals. The employee &#8220;immediately recognized&#8221; him from the police photo. “The employee swiftly notified local authorities, and Mr. Irvin was later apprehended outside of and away from our facility,” the spokesman said.
Police saw the suspect at a DART light rail station Thursday. They later spotted him on the street, where they apprehended him and took him to police headquarters for questioning. He is <a href="https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-police-arrest-man-in-connection-with-monkeys-taken-from-dallas-zoo/3185833/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> with six counts of animal cruelty, non-livestock. He is currently being held on several bonds totaling some $25,000.
The monkeys were returned safely to the zoo on Wednesday. &#8220;Emperor tamarin monkeys, Bella and Finn, were so happy to snuggle into their nest sack here at the Zoo last night!&#8221; the zoo wrote in a <a href="https://twitter.com/DallasZoo/status/1620871919708024834" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> thread. &#8220;Our vet and animal care teams have said, beyond losing a bit of weight, they show no signs of injury.&#8221; The animals will have to go through a quarantine period before being returned to their enclosure. The zoo thanked the Dallas PD for their efforts.

Police Arrest Suspect In Dallas Zoo Monkey-Napping

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