Texas governor Greg Abbott is asking the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to take a closer look at killings committed by parolees on ankle monitors in Dallas.
and given special permission from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to go to the hospital to be with his girlfriend for the birth of her baby.Dallas police released surveillance and body camera video of the shooting at Methodist Dallas Medical Center on Oct. 22 that killed healthcare workers Jaqueline Pokuaa and Katie Annette Flowers.
Abbott also called for a similar investigation into a murder allegedly committed by Zeric Jackson in Novemeber. Jackson is accused of killing a man in an apartment on Audelia Road. He was convicted of a deadly aggravated robbery in 2005 and was wearing an ankle monitor when he was arrested by police. The governor called for the leaders of the BPP and TDCJ to prepare any legislative or administrative recommendations to him by January 4."I’m at a pause when we think that putting an ankle monitor on a violent criminal is some form of accountability, because ankle monitors on violent criminals are useless," Garcia said following the shooting at Dallas Methodist.
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