As the Houston Police Department announces a new top leader amid the suspended cases scandal, 13 Investigates puts the focus back on victims.
Trina was staying the night at a friend's house in 2020 when she woke up in the early morning hours to find her friend's boyfriend naked and on top of her.
"I remember grabbing some shorts, and I had my sports bra on. I went walking to a friend's house that I knew that lived around the corner, just in shock, like calling somebody to come get me. A pedestrian saw me walking half-dressed, and she just asked me, can she take me somewhere," Trina said. The code suspended cases due to a lack of personnel, which prompted an internal affairs investigation into it.
Those emails show that DNA collected from Trina the night of the incident produced a hit to the DNA of a known felon who was arrested by the FBI in 2016 on a weapons charge. "People need justice. We're out here hurting. We trusted you. Like, how could you just walk away? This is how I feel, like, forgotten about," she said. "I just want everybody to get justice. And I'm praying for everybody because it is a hard situation."
On Tuesday night, Mayor John Whitmire sent a letter to HPD staff, saying he accepted now-former HPD Chief Troy Finner's retirement."You've got to have a police department that is back to crime fighting, response time, recruiting," Whitmire said. "You think recruiting hadn't been impacted by the activities that we're describing? I want people to get back to doing police work and get out of the press.
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