Faith Johnson, the Republican candidate for Dallas County district attorney, vowed Wednesday to roll back one of John Creuzot’s hallmark policies if she is...
during the George Floyd protests in 2020 to comment on Creuzot’s handling of those cases. But she pointed to her own record on prosecuting law-enforcement officers who use unjustified force.
Under Johnson, prosecutors secured the murder conviction of former Balch Springs Officer Roy Oliver, for killing 15-year-old Jordan Edwards while on duty. Jurors sentenced Oliver, who is white, to 15 years in prison for killing the Black teen, and Johnson was praised for her office’s handling of the racially charged case.against Amber Guyger, a white police officer who was off-duty when she shot fatally Botham Jean, a Black man, in his apartment.
Creuzot took over the DA’s office before Guyger’s trial and agreed she should be charged with murder. His prosecutors“Understand, I love my police,” Johnson said. “But people who step outside the law … I am for prosecuting whoever steps out of that, whether you’re police or a doctor or whoever.”. Krista Torralva first joined The Dallas Morning News as an intern on the business desk in 2013. She returned to The Morning News in 2021 as a reporter covering primarily Dallas County criminal courts.
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