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LOCAL/STATE
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Denton Record-Chronicle
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Abbott to miss Republican convention due to burns
after sustaining second- and
third-degree bums on both legs
below the knee and both feet on
Thursday, while vacationing
with his family in Jackson Hole,
Wyoming.
Exactly how Abbott scalded
himself remains unclear and his
office has declined to answer
further questions.
The governor uses a wheel-
chair after he was paralyzed
from the waist down when a
tree fell on him during a jog in
1984.
ence Friday — but didn’t dis-
close being burned. His legs
were wrapped at the time, but
covered by his pants.
He spent Monday night at
San Antonio’s Brooke Army
Medical Center, and the fol-
lowing day “underwent a suc-
cessful skin graft procedure,”
his office said in a separate
statement.
The governor endorsed the
Republican presidential bid of
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, his former
colleague at the state attorney
general’s office, but now says he
will back Tmmp.
The 155-member state dele-
gation will elect a new chair-
man upon its arrival at the con-
vention, Michael Joyce, a
spokesman for the Texas Re-
publican Party, said Tuesday.
Abbott was a pledged Cruz del-
egate and will be replaced by
alternate Sichan Siv, who
served as deputy assistant sec-
retary of state under President
George H.W. Bush and will al-
so be pledged to Cruz.
Cruz won Texas’ March 1 pri-
mary, capturing 104 convention
delegates, compared to Trump’s
48 and three for Florida Sen.
Marco Rubio.
The injury has already
caused Abbott to miss a visit to
Dallas Tuesday by President
Barack Obama, who addressed
a memorial service along with
former President George W.
Bush for five police officers
killed in last week’s mass
shooting there.
By Will Weissert
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Texas Gov. Greg
Abbott will miss next week’s Re-
publican National Convention
as he recovers from extensive
bums after being scalded by hot
water
large delegation to Cleveland
will be without its chosen chair-
man.
ft
meaning his state’s
Spokesman Matt Hirsch told
The Associated Press on Tues-
day that doctors said it would be
“irresponsible” for Abbott to
travel, including to the gathering
celebrating presumptive GOP
presidential nominee Donald
Tmmp.
Abbott, who became gover-
nor last year, suffered what his
office termed a “minor infection”
Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at Dallas’ City Hall on Friday.
Abbott will miss next week’s Republican National Convention
as he recovers from extensive burns after being scalded by
hot water.
Despite that, Abbott has felt
pain as nerve receptors in his
legs and feet react to the shock of
being burned, according to
Hirsch.
Abbott was treated last week
at a Wyoming medical center.
Just as he was being released, he
received word that gunman Mi-
cah X. Johnson had opened fire
in downtown Dallas.
Abbott headed to Dallas,
where he held a news confer-
Many in law enforcement feel
frayed relationship with Obama
Sprucing up the streets
By Lisa Marie Pane
Associated Press
DALLAS — After each fatal
shooting of a black man by an of-
ficer, President Barack Obama
has swiftly spoken out against
bad policing, giving voice to the
generations of African-Ameri-
cans who have found themselves
at the wrong end of a baton, a
snarling dog or a gun.
As much as those words have
comforted blacks, they have ran-
kled many of the nation’s men
and women in blue. Some have
described the remarks as an in-
sult, an all-too-quick condemna-
tion before all the facts are in and
a failure to acknowledge the
thousands of cops who do a good
job and routinely risk their lives.
“It would just be nice for him
to say, ‘Hey, I support what you’re
doing,”’ said Scott Hughes, chief
of police in Hamilton Township,
a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio.
“The president doesn’t defend
the police. It’s very one-sided.”
On Tuesday, Obama traveled
to Dallas to pay tribute to the five
officers who were slain by a snip-
er at a peaceful protest. The pres-
ident offered perhaps his stron-
gest words yet of support for law
enforcement, praising the dead
as heroes who died while pre-
serving a constitutional right.
“Like police officers across the
country, these men and their
families shared a commitment to
something larger than them-
selves,” Obama said.
He spoke before an audience
that included police officers, rela-
tives of the slain — and five emp-
ty seats, each representing a fall-
en officer. A folded flag and a po-
lice hat rested on each chair. The
president mentioned the slain
officers by name and offered a
few personal tidbits about each
one.
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Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News
Grand Prairie police officers applaud President Barack Obama
during his Tuesday speech at an interfaith memorial service
for five fallen officers at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony
Center in Dallas.
Barron Ludlum/For the DRC
With a pair of shoes hanging from the line, Clinton Peak, left, and Curtis Espedal with
Denton Municipal Electric prepare to change the pole at West Sycamore and South
Welch streets. DME is going to put in a main Dine feeder along Sycamore as part of a
capital improvement project.
day because of your brave ac-
tions,” he said pointing at the au-
dience filled with officers.
But for many in law enforce-
ment, Obama’s words, while wel-
come, are greeted with suspi-
cion. Does he really believe it and
feel it? They point to perceived
slights dating back to his first
term, and they believe he has
helped stoke the flames of hatred
for police.
Soon after Obama took office,
police said, they sensed they
wouldn’t get the same apprecia-
tion as shown by his two prede-
cessors, who seemed to have offi-
cers’ backs.
Under President Bill Clinton,
the Crime Bill of 1994 provided
money to hire tens of thousands
of new police. The image of Pres-
ident George W. Bush, who also
attended the memorial service,
gathering with first responders
in the rubble of the World Trade
But until Tuesday, they said, the
president had not shown that
same outpouring whenever an
officer has died in the line of duty.
It’s more than just the sym-
bolism that troubles them.
They point to Obama’s oppo-
sition to providing police with
surplus military equipment,
which officers generally believe is
essential to ensuring their safety
and responding effectively to
acts of terror or other mass vio-
lence.
SCOTUS to consider
report on Rio Grande
groundwater case
BRIEFLY
ACROSS THE STATE
Houston
Motorcycle officer killed
chasing theft suspect
“His policies, time and time
again, put officers back on their
heels,” Yates said.
For some, the relationship is
so frayed that Obama’s words of
support for law enforcement
ring hollow.
“Maybe it’s not fair because
we look at everything he says and
think he’s not genuine,” Yates
said.
Police say a Houston-area
motorcycle officer pursuing two
shoplifting suspects in a car was
killed when his motorcycle hit a
lawn maintenance trailer
parked on a street.
Houston police spokesman
Victor Senties says the officer
from Bellaire, a west Houston
enclave, died Tuesday.
Bellaire Police Chief Byron
Holloway identified the officer
as 52-year-old Anthony Zarate,
who had been with the agency
since 2009.
Authorities are hunting for
two men in the car Zarate was
chasing.
6 million people in several ma-
jor cities and irrigates more
than 3,100 square miles of
farmland in the U.S. and Mex-
By Susan Montoya Bryan
Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -
The nation’s highest court will
likely have to settle a dispute be-
tween Texas and New Mexico
over management of water from
the Rio Grande.
Officials in both states have
been waiting for nearly a year for
a recommendation on the han-
dling of the case that could dra-
matically curb groundwater
pumping in some of New Mex-
ico’s most fertile valleys and
force the state to pay as much as
$1 billion in damages.
Now, a special master as-
signed by the U.S. Supreme
Court is recommending the re-
jection of a motion by New Mex-
ico to dismiss the case, meaning
it can move forward as long as
the high court agrees.
Texas sued in 2013, claim-
ing New Mexico failed to deliv-
er water as required under a
decades-old compact involving
the river that serves more than
ICO.
New Mexico state Sen. Joe
Cervantes, whose district in-
cludes the border region, said
the special master’s recommen-
dation was not a surprise, and
that he and a small group of law-
makers have been warning
about potentially dire outcomes
if Texas gains the upper hand in
the legal battle.
Cervantes said the recom-
mendation to let the case pro-
ceed seems to support demands
by Texas for more water from
the Rio Grande.
“A great deal more water de-
livered to Texas to make up for
historic shortfalls seems to be a
clear direction he’s going,” Cer-
vantes said of the special master.
‘And since water won’t make up
for all of the shortfalls, we’re
looking at the risk of large finan-
cial damages.”
If Obama’s attendance at the
memorial offered some solace to
police, it didn’t seem to satisfy
some black activists.
LaShadion Anthony, 29, with
the Dallas Action Coalition and
the Huey P. Newton Gun Club,
named after one of the founders
of the Black Panthers, watched
as Obama’s motorcade traveled
through Dallas. The president’s
decision to visit Dallas rather
than Baton Rouge or suburban
Minneapolis was, he said, “a slap
in the face.”
“I think he needs to really ad-
dress the issue of unjust police
departments across the country”
Anthony said. “Coming here, he’s
putting a Band-Aid on a very
large, open wound.”
Center also sent a powerful mes-
sage.
Just seven months into Oba-
ma’s first term, Harvard Profes-
sor Henry Louis Gates was ar-
rested as he returned home late
Calling the attack the act of a
“demented” man,” Obama ap-
pealed for Americans to find a
way to bridge the divide, noting
that black communities often
feel maligned and police officers
feel underappreciated.
“I understand how Ameri-
cans are feeling. But Dallas, I’m
here to say we must reject such
despair. I’m here to insist that we
are not as divided as we seem,”
Obama said before launching in-
to a defense of police and the sac-
rifices they make.
“We mourn fewer people to-
one night and tried to open his
jammed front door. The white
officer who responded to a report
of a possible break-in arrested
him for disorderly conduct.
The incident sparked a de-
bate about racial profiling with
Obama saying police had acted
“stupidly”
The distrust has only deep-
ened with each police shooting of
a black man as they see the presi-
dent or one of his representatives
attend services for the victims.
Ennis
2 taken into custody
after shots fired at officer
Authorities have taken a man
and woman into custody after
someone in a fleeing car shot at a
North Texas police officer.
Texas Department of Public
Safety Lt. Lonny Haschel said the
two were taken into custody with-
out incident Tuesday afternoon.
Investigators say the Ennis
officer was not injured during
Tuesday’s incident.
Police in Ennis, 30 miles
southeast of Dallas, received a
911 call Tuesday morning about
gunfire in a neighborhood and a
possible drive-by shooting.
ARE WE LOOKING
FOR
Denton High School
Class of '76
40th Reunion
Saturday, July 23, 2016
TO THE MEMORY OF
HELEN DAVIS
Wally Davis and the family of
Helen Davis wish to extend our
heartfelt Love and appreciation to all of
you for the love, support, meals, cards,
letters, emails, visits in hospitals- in
hospice -and at home. We thank all of
you who were able to attend our
celebration of Helen s life on earth and
her sendoff to the life eternal.
Fort Worth
Man charged with raping
3 women he met online
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A North Texas man has been
charged with raping three wom-
en he met through social media
in separate attacks reported
since January.
Tarrant County jail records
show 21-year-old LDarrius
Djuan Gamer of Watauga was
being held Tuesday on three
counts of sexual assault and one
robbery charge.
The Fort Worth Star-Tele-
gram reports the robbery count
involves a fourth woman.
Fort Worth police Sgt. S.L.
Thomson says Gamer befriend-
ed the victims, picked them up,
drove the women to remote ar-
eas and attacked or robbed
them.
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While it would take several months to send you all a personal
note we have decided to let you know publicly how we
appreciate the love, the care and the true friendships you had for
“Miss Helen.”
Contact Tammy Neu, ASAP!
940-391-4823
IT'S MOT TOO LATE TO REGISTER!!
MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL NOW AND FOREVER
— The Associated Press
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