GOP candidate Lauren Davis’ campaign surfaced a Waco police report about a prank for which Jenkins apologized in 2010. He says he was only wearing camouflage at the time.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins speaks during the Texas Democratic Convention at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas on July 15, 2022. Jenkins 1983 arrest after he and friends entered a Waco apartment in what they called a prank has become an issue in his reelection campaign., our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
That report was first published by two right-wing media sites Tuesday night, with both saying Jenkins had dressed in blackface. One such site, The Blaze, hosted Jenkins' GOP rival, Lauren Davis, for the discussion and then blasted him for acting recklessly. In the interview, Davis said: “It was anything but [a prank], he could have been shot. He broke in and entered a home dressed not as himself, and then terrorized these women … He ransacked the apartment, [the women] barricaded themselves behind a door.”
“Judge Jenkins apologized then, when he was 19, and continues to be sorry for the poor judgment he exhibited at the time,” Gregory said. “He has never darkened his face in an attempt to appear as a member of another race.”whether he had ever been charged with a crime, Jenkins mentioned the trespassing charge and a separate reckless driving charge.
According to the police report, one of the women awoke in the early hours of Sept. 22, 1983, to see what “appeared to be three, possibly Black males, coming through the window.” She woke her roommate and dragged her into another bedroom, where they hid as the men ransacked their room. Jenkins and the other two men were charged with criminal trespass of a habitation, the report says. According to criminal records, Jenkins was sentenced to one year of deferred adjudication, a type of probation.
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