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HOUSTON (AP) — A white Texas police officer could be heard twice on a body camera video saying that leading a homeless black man by a rope down city streets while he and his partner were on horseback would look “bad,” according to the footage. Two Galveston police officers arrested 43-year-old Donald Neely on Aug. […]

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An image of a handcuffed Black man being led through Galveston by horse-mounted white policemen has caused quite the uproar on Twitter. On Monday, Galveston, Texas police issued a statement regarding the photo, noting that the officers had “clipped” a “line” to Donald Neely’s handcuffs after he was arrested for trespassing on Saturday, the Houston Chronicle reports. The […]

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TEXAS CITY, Texas (AP) — No timetable has been set to reopen a major U.S. shipping channel after nearly 170,000 gallons of tar-like oil spilled into the Texas waterway, but more help was being called in Monday to contain the spill and protect important shorebird habitat. A barge carrying about 900,000 gallons of the heavy […]