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JUSTICE Leon Reed’s arduous 200-mile trek to Austin is the first step of a multifaceted criminal justice reform effort.

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eon Reed Jr.’s steadfast devotion to social justice issues is fueled by several influences. As a criminal defense lawyer, he sees the results of overpolicing in the courtrooms and the protections afforded police on the witness stand. As a retired Marine, he understands that service to one’s country can take many forms. As a devout Christian, he understands that faith works hand in hand with action, and as a Black man, he understands the stakes of inaction for future generations.

To raise awareness of racist Fort Worth policing policies, Reed began a 200-mile trek on August 9 through scorching heat to reach Gov. Greg Abbott. The lawyer did what he could to take advantage of cooler temperatures in the morning, but nine days of walking took a serious toll on his body, he said. Reed undertook the journey not in spite of the physical challenges but because of them, he added. Civil rights reformers of the 1950s and ’60s frequently placed themselves in physically grueling situations as a symbol of their collective resolve to confront injustice at all costs, Reed said.

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To raise awareness of racist policing policies, Reed began a 200-mile walk on August 9 through scorching heat to reach Gov. Greg Abbott.

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How did your background as a criminal defense attorney inform your desire to affect criminal justice reform?

When you are on that side of the fence, you have access to offense reports, conferences, and body cams. You see a lot more when you are at trial and you catch police officers blatantly lying. It’s like watching someone

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When Reed arrived in Austin in mid-August, Abbott, somewhat ironically (and perhaps intentionally), was in Fort Worth to chastise Austin City Council for its decision to reallocate police funds as Austinites had demanded. Reed remained in the state capital for 35 days for a meeting with the governor that never happened.

Undaunted by the gubernatorial snub, Reed said he holds no malice toward the state leader, although he’s quick to remind Mayor Betsy Price and others that failure to enact meaningful police reforms leaves elected officials complicit in the killings of unarmed Black men and women.

Speaking from a law office on the West Side, Reed described what pushed him to start the Walk for Reform movement that is now a statewide effort to create uniform policing practices across the Lone Star State.

Reed said he undertook the journey not in spite of the physical challenges but because of them.

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I’ve been to Selma. That walk wasn’t a protest. If anything, it was an act of self-sacrifice. rob something from the other side of 4 inches of plexiglass. You see it happen, but you can’t stop them.

Minorities have been clamoring for eons for better treatment from Fort Worth police department. When police reform

experts put out their report in July [“Law Enforcement Reform on the Horizon?”

Aug. 12], I read the whole 40 pages. It was not a good report. That’s the way African Americans have been treated.

Do we need less policing or different policing?

As the population grows, we are going to need policing. We can’t have an us-againstthem mindset, whether it’s from the police toward the community or from the community toward the police. We don’t

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I don’t even like the word “defund.”

It’s a bad choice of words. If it needs to be explained, it’s poor marketing. Police have to be able to work in communities, and that takes a relationship that is built on trust. Who cares if you have all the funding in the world if police aren’t welcome in the neighborhood.

I expect to be treated a certain way by police. That sacred trust, without it, I am not going to stop for [a corrupt] officer. When the civilians start to clamor, something needs to change.

How did the idea of starting Walk for Reform come about?

I’ve been to Selma. That walk wasn’t a protest. If anything, it was an act of selfsacrifice. I’m going to walk 50 miles along an Alabama stretch of highway with folks out here who could shoot me and not be held accountable. It’s tantamount to a hunger strike. As you watch me waste away, the humanity of the situation comes to light. I thought to myself, “If they can walk 50 miles, then surely I can walk 200.”

The governor had already [mentioned creating] an act to prevent what happened to George Floyd from happening in Texas.

OK, you recognize that there is a problem.

I want you to know that there are people like me who are committed to this. We have ideas that are worthwhile. We are committed to the effort and to the reform.

If Fort Worth won’t do it, maybe we can get it done at the state level.

What goals did you want to achieve by walking to Austin?

I hoped to shame inactive Fort Worth leaders. Stuff is so bad [in Fort Worth], you have people willing to walk 200 miles to get help. That shouldn’t make you feel good in Fort Worth. We have people who have to walk 200 miles for help because we’re not getting it here.

When you have data, and you show the city their own data, like racial profiling data that has been mandated since 2001, and you see the blip when it comes to African Americans who are overrepresented, you have to ask the city what they did. In 2002, when you saw that data, what did you do? When you saw it again in 2003, what did you do? You can pick any year, and the result is the same.

That tells me that you have done nothing.

Either you approve, or you don’t care.

The problem is that there isn’t a good tool for self-regulation with police departments. The way things are set up, police have an us-against-them mentality.

If you cross a fellow cop by reporting them, you have crossed that thin blue line.

Now, they may say that they can’t trust you. If you get a call for backup, they will slowpoke their way to you.

Fort Worth [police] brag about a duty to intervene [when wrongdoing is observed]. Let’s say Officer Smith intervenes when he sees Officer Jones whacking somebody. The following week, Smith intervenes again. What’s missing?

What’s missing is the duty to report. I can intervene 365 days a year. If I am bound to report, some of that stigma is off. I have to write a report. It’s the law.

That [and other policies] should be statewide. The duty to intervene and report. Basically, you want to have a mechanism in place where police officers can whistleblow without any risk to them.

Why do you think the governor snubbed your visit?

I’ve never spoken ill of Gov. Abbott. One of two things happened. Someone from Fort Worth called down to Austin and said, “Hey, don’t see this guy.” I made no secret that I was going to use Fort Worth as an example. I know Fort Worth. Or Austin saw what was happening and asked, “Who is this guy coming down here?”

I believe that, in all likelihood, the reason he didn’t see me had more to do with Fort Worth than Austin because

he shortly after came here to try to make Betsy Price look good. That’s when Mayor Price proclaimed that Fort Worth is one of the safest cities in Texas. If you are saying Fort Worth is safe, then you are excluding me and the Black community. That should irritate people.

What plans do you and your supporters have for the future?

Instead of taking a top-down approach, we’ll go bottom-up and get the support of the people. We are building up our website. We are writing for grants so we can fund the research and employ experts in legislation writing.

We are looking to start another group called Together with police chiefs, attorneys, and people who want better legislation written. Conversations lead to questions, and questions lead to answers.

We are coming at this humbly. Other states may one day look to Texas. Texas can become the hub for law enforcement policy

ideas well into the future. Those policies can become regional and then national policies. If you can’t choke somebody in Florida, you shouldn’t be able to choke someone in Washington.

There was interest in people walking from Houston. Someone said, “How many people does it take to walk 200 miles before the governor acknowledges you?” Maybe it takes more people. We have people ready to walk 90 miles from San Antonio and 120 miles from Houston. We are looking to start up in January. The legislators will be down there.

Every person who comes to Texas should have encounters with the besttrained officers that the state of Texas can give. That officer should understand the parameters under which he or she can do their job. We deserve the best officers that our money, technology, and knowledge can buy. The citizens deserve no less. l

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there is accountability for police. If you are being held accountable and trained a certain way, then the public will know that they can have confidence in how they will be treated when they are pulled over.

Of course, cops should be able to defend themselves. If you are trying to give a ticket and somebody starts shooting at you, of course you have the right to shoot back.

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When Reed arrived in Austin in mid-August, Abbott, somewhat ironically (and perhaps intentionally), was in Fort Worth to chastise Austin City Council for its decision to reallocate police funds as demanded by Austinites.

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There are 254 counties in Texas. If each county has a sheriff, that sheriff will have his or her own policies for use of force.

There are 900 municipalities in Texas.

If each one of those municipalities has a chief of police, that chief is writing his or her own policies. Now, you have over 1,000 policies. We’re not even counting constables, campus police, and other groups.

If you want to be a Marine, there is one manual and one way of doing things.

We have one U.S. Constitution and one Texas Constitution. Why don’t we have one standard, the Texas standard? All of this [can be drafted] in Austin. You don’t want it to be handled only at the local level.

There are 111 places that train people to be a cop in Texas. Why do we have to have so many?

The police should not be militarized.

In the military, we are trying to kill the enemy quickly and efficiently. The citizens are not the enemy. You cannot instill that type of mindset in the police.

Why haven’t body cameras become mandatory across the state? The public now wants cameras. The police have violence as a tool. We have cameras. If something involved serious bodily injury or death, it could be a felony to not have your camera on. As defense attorneys, we will get 40 clips that are a minute here and two minutes here because they keep cutting their cameras on and off. Why don’t I get one clip of the whole thing?

These things let the public know that

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Don’t be surprised if droves of public health officials turn in their county gigs for less turbulent work in private practices next year. Already this year, dozens of city and county health officials across the country have resigned after receiving credible death threats. While nurses and health care workers on the frontlines of the pandemic have reached sainthood levels (and deservedly so), county health officials who rely on that same body of medical science are disparaged privately and publicly for their work trying to slow the death mill that is COVID-19.

“It is frustrating and confusing that one doctor has in her hands the fate” of every family in Tarrant county, one mother

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There’s a petition to remove a TCU professor from the school’s Racial Equity Committee for a recent column he wrote for us. In “If They Care About Equity, Fort Worth Schools Must Extend Virtual Learning,” Max Krochmal argued that rich white people’s voices overtook everyone else’s in the discussion to resume in-person learning at Fort Worth ISD. A woman responded by starting an online petition to have him removed from the committee. On the petition page, Suzanne Asfar claims that in his Weekly column, Krochmal “made racist, slanderous, and hate-filled remarks primarily against parents advocating for the choice to have in-person learning — individuals he lumps into ‘wealthy white folks’ and the ‘ultra-privileged’ — inciting racial and class hatred.”

As of Monday, nearly 300 people have signed it. The goal is 500. I don’t know how Asfar’s getting the word out and do not care.

Krochmal doesn’t either.

“I was surprised to see a petition targeting my service on the Racial Equity Committee,” he wrote me. “It’s telling that its signers responded so negatively to me and my tone

protestations), weren’t in a rush to toss teachers into classrooms with potentially COVID-infested children and coworkers.

Speaking at a September 15 virtual school board meeting, Veerinder “Vinny” Taneja described how he is handling his children’s education.

“Would you send your children to school right now in person?” trustee Anne Darr asked the health director for Tarrant County Public Health.

No, he responded “I have two children who are of school age who are doing online learning,” Taneja said. “We are not comfortable sending our children to school until there is a vaccine.

We are going through the same [struggles] that other parents are.”

Tarrant County Public Health had recently published a school dashboard (TarrantCounty.com/SchoolGuidance) to help parents access a simplified assessment of the dangers faced by children (and their family members) for attending in-person learning. On the day of Taneja’s presentation, Fort Worth’s districts were registered as “red.” As of Monday, Oct. 5, Fort Worth remains red — the designation for widespread community transmission.

After weeks of vocal pleas for and against reopening classes, the school board settled on a staggered reopening plan that began last Monday.

Trustee Ashley Paz told us in an email that “the responsibility for leadership has been passed around too much. Both the state of Texas and City of Fort Worth

rather than the substance of my arguments.

It’s even more telling that within days, privileged parents at Tanglewood and Overton succeeded in abusing a [Texas Education Agency] loophole to force those schools to reopen ahead of the district’s approved schedule, thereby proving my points about their entitlement far more effectively than I did. I suggest that those who were offended by my op-ed educate themselves about the scholarly consensus on how structural racism and white privilege continue to operate in our society and that they redirect their ire away from volunteer community servants and toward the elite power brokers and elected officials who constantly shore up racial inequality.”

In a subsequent Star-Telegram story about the column, the TCU prof said he has no plans on leaving the committee and that he welcomes dialogue.

“I will continue to do that work, and I urge people who feel slighted to examine why they feel slighted,” he told the daily paper.

“Especially if they read the piece carefully, [it is] really about domination of a small handful of elites.”

There’s more to the petition than Krochmal. Asfar goes on to accuse the entire Racial Equity Committee of using “racist language” at committee meetings. Though having never sat in on any of the group’s get-

togethers, I would bet my life that none of the members have ever used terms like the n-word or whatever derogatory names are employed to describe people of color or other minorities. My guess is that Asfar is referring to “language” directed toward white people.

History lesson: Reverse racism is a myth.

Until white people are systemically denied the right to rent an apartment or buy a car by an authority above them or are killed by police and vigilantes to be able to vote or are killed by police and vigilantes based on skin color connected to racial disenfranchisement dating back 400 years, then white people cannot be discriminated against. Stop saying you can. You’re just embarrassing yourself.

Snowflakes.

In the Star-T story, the reporter talks to two detractors and to Krochmal himself but to none of his supporters, whom we know are the quiet majority. The 26 mostly negative comments on Krochmal’s story for us are juxtaposed with 2.4K likes. In the StarT story, the term “race-baiting” is used at least once. Of course, it was. That’s an idea beloved by whites to describe the long-suppressed sound of disenfranchised voices. No matter what Black or brown people say or do to express their displeasure with the way things are, it’s going to offend white people.

Talk about triggered.

For weeks, I’ve been trying to figure out why some parents want to send their children back to virus-infested classrooms. Then it hit me. If parents are working instead of parenting (I guess some folks just think school is daycare), then Dear Leader can take credit for reviving the economy. Can you believe some people are willing to sacrifice their children for a politician? And the slimiest one at that?

The Fort Worth school district began in-person learning last Monday. I guess we know which side won this debate. No, remote learning is not for every child, but why we are not fixing our scary circumstances and are instead trying to just deal with them is costing all of us, not just people with underlying conditions, not just TCU professors and their detractors, not just students. Everyone.

Hopefully, this will change on Jan. 20, 2021.

— Anthony Mariani

Correction

In last week’s issue, we misidentified the photographer who took the cover image, Shauna Benoit. We regret the error. — A.M. The Weekly welcomes submissions from all political persuasions. Please email Editor Anthony Mariani at anthony@fwweekly.com.

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Goza, a guest that day, addressed Pence’s comments.

“Returning to school must be done safely,” she said. “Reopening schools in a way that maximizes safety, learning, and the wellbeing of children will clearly require new investments in our schools. We urge you to ensure that schools receive the resources necessary so that funding does not stand in the way of keeping our children safe or present at school.”

To settle the matter, AAP released another statement that many saw as a rebuke of Trump’s agenda.

“Reopening schools in a way that maximizes safety, learning, and the wellbeing of children, teachers, and staff will clearly require substantial new investments in our schools and campuses,” the statement read in part. “Withholding funding from schools that do not open in person fulltime would be a misguided approach, putting already financially strapped schools in an impossible position that would threaten the health of students and teachers.”

Whitley and the several dozen parents ended the late July meeting agreeing that reopening classrooms should be left to school boards. Indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton granted their wish soon after by stripping county officials of the authority to reopen public schools and placing that power in the hands of school boards. Fort Worth school district trustees, much to the chagrin of many in Fort Worth’s wealthy Tanglewood neighborhood (a hotbed of classroom reopening

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Who needs experienced public health officials when opinions are all that matter?

said this past July.

Speaking as part of a crowd of around a dozen wealthy parents, the mother was addressing the county head, Judge Glen Whitley, in the Tarrant County Administration Building. The “one doctor” was Dr. Catherine Colquitt, an infectious disease specialist with decades of professional experience. As the county medical director, Dr. Colquitt had used the authority granted by the governor to delay in-person public school classes due to concerns over COVID-19.

At the time, Tarrant County was reporting around 600 new cases a day. The parents weren’t happy with the decision to delay reopening classrooms. Not one to let science step in the way of a bad idea, several parents cited a June statement by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to further their cause.

“Schools are fundamental to child and adolescent development and wellbeing,” the AAP statement read in part.

One month earlier, the White House had latched onto AAP’s guidance to further Donald Trump’s mandate that public schools must reopen. During a June 7 school-opening conversation held at the White House, Vice President Mike Pence said, as stated by “the American Academy of Pediatrics, so well-represented here today [...] there are social costs, emotional costs, and even physical costs to our children across this country” associated with classroom closures.

In response, AAP President Sally

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waited too long to issue emergency orders and have reopened too early. All of our local entities have to be working together to get this thing under control. If schools are going to stay open, then conditions outside of school have to prioritize the advice of our local health experts.”

Paz has been the target of online attacks by a relatively small group of parents who live in the Tanglewood neighborhood.

“I don’t like labeling an entire neighborhood based on the actions of a few,” Paz said. “There are about 200 square miles of FWISD residents outside of Tanglewood who also have very legitimate concerns about how both [learning] options are meeting student needs. They deserve to be heard as well. At this point, students are in schools, and the district is working diligently to keep them and our teachers safe. Public officials at all levels need to be focused on how we can keep infection rates down, our schools safe, and our educational program rigorous for both virtual and in-personal learners. It’s time to move on.”

The official county stance from Taneja (who has 13 years of public health experience at the local, regional, and state levels) and a September 21 Facebook Live conversation among Mayor Betsy Price and two doctors from Cook Children’s show that what’s true for Tarrant County can mean next to nothing at the city level. While the two pediatric doctors (sitting in close proximity) opted to wear face masks, Price and Cook Children’s CEO Rick Merrill (also seated in close proximity) chose not to.

We now have restaurants open at 75% capacity, the mayor said. That creates more jobs and a greater need for childcare, and schools are a part of that childcare.

The mayor’s statements that teachers are a source of pandemic daycare may come as a surprise to educators who pursued college degrees and graduate-level studies for the profession of education — not daycare.

“I am curious to see what arguments Vinny Taneja (not a doctor) will argue tomorrow night,” one woman commented on the mayor’s post.

There are many aspects of the current pandemic that are uncontrollable, like the idiots who refuse to wear face masks in public or to wash their hands yet go out regularly. Medical science has expanded the length and quality of human life to levels that were unimaginable even a century ago, but modern medicine can’t stop nincompoops from cherry-picking science to serve selfish aims.

Public health officials like Dr. Colquitt and Taneja have dedicated their lives to serving the public by using empirical science to solve public health problems.

Like many public health officials across the country, their voices are increasingly being drowned out by a wash of pseudoscience that comforts the ignorant and emboldens extremists on both sides of the political divide. Attempts to verbally attack or politically outmaneuver top medical professionals during a pandemic may be a significant reason why the United States continues to lead the world in COVID-19 deaths (211,000 to date) and why much of the world continues to ban Americans from visiting. l

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The tearjerking My Octopus Teacher is now available online.

The Aledo Children’s AdvoCats –– a nonprofit Wednesday that helps Aledo ISD children and families in need –– hosts a Charity Clay Shoot at Defender Outdoors Clay Sports Ranch (8270 Aledo Rd, 817-935-8378) at 9am.

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One local high school has become very innovative.

From 5pm to 7pm daily Thursday thru Sat, Timberview Theater is launching its 2020/2021 season with Alice in Quarantine: A Drive-Thru Adventure in the Timberview High School parking lot (7700 S Watson Rd, Arlington, 682-314-1300). Admission is $3-5.

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As I understand it, when you say, “Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice,” Friday the pandemic disappears.

No? Well, dang it. From 7pm to 10pm, MUTT’s Canine Cantina (5317 Clearfork Main St, 817-377-02151) is screening the movie of the same name for its

weekly Movie Night. The screening is free to attend, but you will need a day pass or membership to enter the park.

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It’s hard out here. Ask Hayes Carll. At 6pm, grab a square on the lawn Saturday at Levitt Pavilion (100 W Abram, Arlington, 817-543-4301) and enjoy the final livestreaming concert event of Levitt’s season on their big screen. The socially distant squares of real estate are first-come, first-served, and each holds up to eight people.

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Because seasons are irrelevant in 2020 –– and in Texas in the fall –– the Sunday Bert Kreischer: Hot Summer Nights comedy tour is hitting Fort Worth now. At 6pm, head to Coyote Drive-In (223 NE 4th St, 817-717-7767) for a night of live –– not telecast –– standup comedy. Tickets start at $35 per person at BertFortWorth.NightOut.com.

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Spoiler alert: My Octopus Teacher will break your heart. If you’ve been

wanting to watch the new documentary about a wildlife photographer and the special friend he made under the sea, save it for a Mon. If it ruins your night, no big loss. It’s a day that usually sucks anyway.

The film can be screened on Netflix or at New.PremiumFilm.xyz.

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As part of its annual monthlong October event called Texas Rose, Tuesday Romance & Readers Showcase, The Dock Bookshop (6637 Meadowbrook Dr, 817-457-5700) introduces a new hardcover book titled GLORY: Magical Visions of Black Beauty.

This photography book by husband-wife team Kahran and Reges Bethencourt “shatters the conventional standards of beauty for Black children.” The Dock is open from 1pm to 7pm. GLORY can be pre-ordered at TheDockBookshop.com for $24.

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See the world’s first drive-in air show this weekend.

Drive-in Airshow this Weekend Like many events this year, the Bell Fort Worth Alliance Airshow made significant changes to avoid being another canceled local event.

For its 30th Anniversary, it has become a drive-in experience.

Unlike their regular in-person events, this year’s festivities will not include static displays, exhibitors, kids’ inflatables, or paid seating areas. Rather than individual event tickets per person, attendees will purchase parking tickets available online only –– not on-site –– on a first-come, first-served basis.

Every vehicle space includes a second adjoining space for your party to, well, party. Attendees should bring their own camping chairs, drinks, picnic items, and such.

Information about what is and isn’t allowed at the event, safety precautions, and protocols can be found online.

The airshow is Sat-Sun, Oct 17-18, but as of press time, Sat is sold out.

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However, not everyone is ready to go out and mingle with others just yet, as uncertainty around COVID takes us into the end of the year.

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Events & Adventures hosts exciting group outdoor events where you can meet people naturally. By adding just a few extra precautions to keep everyone safe, Events & Adventures can get people out of the house and into the fresh air. There are no swiping or profiles, just hanging out with people who share the same interests as you. The best part? Everyone is single and there for the same reasons. Local singles can meet friends while ziplining, spark conversations at the arboretum, play sand volleyball for fun, and try other adventures without having to risk their health.

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Events & Adventures has been bringing singles together for over 30 years at exciting events around the country. COVID certainly threw everyone for a loop when, suddenly, getting people together was a bad thing. Luckily, the Events & Adventures team quickly came up with solutions to provide DFW single people with much needed social time amidst pandemic concerns.

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Dak Didn’t Deserve This And we don’t deserve him. Though they got the win, the Dallas Cowboys suffer their biggest loss in five years.

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Eight and a half minutes into the third quarter of the Cowboys game against the New York Giants on Sunday, after an impressive 9-yard scramble, Dak Prescott sat upright on the turf holding his right leg aloft, the foot turned at a sickening angle. The 25,000 in attendance at AT&T Stadium were silent for several minutes as team doctors tended to the eerily calm quarterback. An eternity later, Prescott was swarmed by teammates offering fist bumps and back slaps, wishing their leader well as he was carted off the field. Unable to contain his tears at the full realization of what was happening, just before entering the tunnel, Prescott raised a fist, and the crowd cheered for him.

Prescott’s ankle suffered a compound fracture after being inadvertently rolled up on by Giants defensive back Logan Ryan during a tackle. Prescott, who had surgery to repair the ghastly injury Sunday night, will miss the remainder of the 2020 season.

The injury cuts short what I challenge anyone to argue, if not for the Cowboys’ dismal record, was so far an MVP-caliber year. Prescott leads the league in just about every statistical passing category and has been the only reason his team has been in any game this season.

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somehow completed, though I can’t seem to recall much detail about how it unfolded after that point. I do know the Cowboys would go on to win 37-34 on a last-second field goal by Greg Zurlein, but the details are clouded in a deep haze of grief. Even the hilariously awesome double reverse touchdown pass caught by Dak from Cedric Wilson seems a little lost in the fog.

There’s perhaps never been a more hollow victory in franchise history.

Injuries, even severe ones, unfortunately, are an unavoidable part of the game of football. Anyone who has followed the sport has likely witnessed dozens, to stars and role players alike, perhaps to even their favorite players.

As a card-carrying Tony Romo apologist, I’ve certainly bore my share of moments when your gut sinks into the couch and you plead with every fiber of your being, “Please! Just get up!”

It’s always terrible. Even though I saw similar things with Romo multiple times, I’ve never felt such unbelievable heartbreak as I did this last Sunday afternoon. If even some small part of you didn’t tear up along with Dak as he realized his season was over, you’re likely a flawed sociopath and you probably kick puppies.

You definitely hate to see such a thing with any player. What athletes put themselves through to compete at the highest level would crumple most people like a cheap export fender. Taken against the backdrop of the last seven or eight months of Dak Prescott’s life and the genuinely great person that he is, this one just hits different. In that span, Dak has battled depression (an admission that inexplicably saw ridicule in some of the more heinous sports “media” circles), he suffered the loss of his brother to suicide, and he also endured a maddening contract negotiation with an ownership that seems hellbent on taking full advantage of his inherent good faith. Through it all, he’s been the definition of a leader and an exemplary model of what the “right kind of guy” in football is. Yet, all the while, he has sustained constant shortsighted judgment and disregard by a not insignificant portion of so-called Cowboys “fans.” No matter what he accomplishes, “he’s just not good enough” for these people. Prescott has hoisted the mantle passed to him from Romo as an absolutely criminally underappreciated player — not nationally but by his team’s own damn fanbase. Perhaps no fanbase is more toxic than that of the Dallas Cowboys (save for maybe that of the Star Wars universe).

Seeing the number of malevolent football puppy-kickers rejoicing on social media about how “this will save the Cowboys money with Dak’s contract” was

almost as nauseating as seeing Dak’s right foot bent 45 degrees the wrong way.

After the treatment he’s suffered from these “fans” and an ownership cosplaying as hardballers, I frankly don’t understand why Dak would even want to play here anymore. But that’s just who he is. He loves the Dallas Cowboys more than any fan out there. He deserves better.

There will be plenty of time to suss out how the team looks going forward, to ponder how Dalton can fill the hole left by the heartbeat of the team. Naysayers will finally get to see if they’re right that “anyone could throw for 300 a game with these weapons.” Or muse on how the

remaining roster is still plagued by a score of other injuries (second-year defensive tackle Tristan Hill was lost for the season with a torn ACL on Sunday as well), is woefully prone to turnovers, and has a defense that gives up at least 30 every game. But for now, I think it’s appropriate for real fans to take a moment and just appreciate all that Dak has been through, all he’s accomplished, and what he’s done for this franchise. Then we can look forward to the amazing comeback story that we’re no doubt in for down the line.

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AINA POKE CO - Enjoy traditional Hawaiian poke bowls full of sushi-grade fish, fresh vegetables, and vibrant toppings.

CANTINA PASEO: Fort Worth Local Cantina - Drinks include featured craft cocktails, a wide selection of wines, and a variety beers from import and domestic to locally brewed, on tap and by the bottle.

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CHEESAPALOOZA: Cheesy, Hearty & Hot - The selection of signature Grilled Cheese sandwiches are always served with a hot cup of tomato bisque. The menu also features gourmet Mac & Cheese and a variety of dip-it quesos.

CLAYTON’S: Texas Local Grill - Clayton’s

features premium handcrafted burgers made with your choice of ground beef, ground turkey,

or grilled chicken breast, plus a vegetarian option. There is also a crispy chicken than can be enjoyed as a basic or spicy sandwich, tenders, or wings.

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Neighborhood Coffee Shop - Exclusively offering Illy coffee and espresso. Breakfast pies, iced lattes, and macaroons are also available.

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neighborhood institution crafting tasty NYC style sandwiches that make people happy!

Serving heaping portions of freshly sliced meats and cheeses on breads made with excellence.

Offering quality, value, friendly smiles, and swiftness with every sandwich experience.

NOT JUST Q - Former NFL player Hawthorn followed his nose to Hansen’s barbecue food truck, and the rest is que history. Their menu boasts flavors that go beyond typical barbecue. Both inherited a love of barbecue from their dads, focuses on high-quality meats that get smoked, smothered, and elevated beyond any other barbecue around.

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Bringing a delicious slice of Italy straight to the heart of Fort Worth, the menu features Neapolitan style pizzas cooked in a brick-fire oven plus gourmet pasta dishes with endless combination options. The dough is freshly made with flour imported from Italy. Piccola’s insists on quality ingredients in every dish.

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bowls with a combo of Mediterranean ingredients including slow-cooked meats like lamb and chicken, crispy house-made falafel, and a long list of seasoned vegetables.

TACO PASEO - Tacos and fixings that you crave from morning till night including a mix of Tex-Mex and traditional Mexican recipes.

VAL’S CHEESECAKES - Piled high with

decadent toppings, his cheesecakes will make you wonder what a cheesecake really is.

Discover his savory cakes, like the Bacon Cheddar Cheesecake or the Taco Cheesecake.

It’s highly recommended getting one for dinner and a different one for dessert – because life’s too short.

Park in the garage across the way, bring us your voucher and we’ll validate it for you. Four hour limit.

Indoor seating is available, but so is a spacious, sunny outdoor patio.

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drives before Duggan was temporarily sidelined and backup Matthew Downing (#17) relieved long enough to step in for two series that punctuated with an egregious interception returned for a Wildcat touchdown. Duggan returned immediately and drove his teammates just outside the KSU redzone before stalling and surrendering the ball on downs. Down two touchdowns, Duggan rallied his troops near the end of the game and punched the second Frog score himself. Kansas State required one yard to ice the game near midfield when freshman quarterback Will Howard (#15) was tackled for no gain by the TCU turf monster. (He tripped on his own feet.) Duggan and the Frogs needed to go 96 yards in one minute armed with one timeout and couldn’t. TCU dropped to Kansas State 21-14 in essentially a repeat performance of last season when they also fell by a touchdown. The numbers from this game are both disappointing and revealing. Our Frogs won almost every conceivable category: total yards, pass yards, rush yards, penalties, possession time. These teams finished with an even turnover margin, but the backbreakers proved to be a blocked field goal and interception returned for a touchdown.

If you watched the game, the elephant in the room is the team of elephants on the line. TCU’s offensive and defensive lines are not doing their job as well as their opponents. Duggan is constantly pressured and running backs are creating space where none exists. Patterson’s secondary is performing admirably considering the pass rush is hardly what you’d expect from a Frog defense. Howard led rushing for the Wildcats and created first downs in crucial moments to dash opportunities for the Frogs.

In an even stranger twist to this season, the crosstown SMU Mustangs were the top-ranked Texas squad last week and remain undefeated. The ponies were eclipsed in this week’s rankings by the Aggies, who upset fourth-ranked Florida in College Station.

The Mustangs and Aggies are the only two Texas-based teams who appear anywhere in the Associated Press or Coaches’ polls.

TCU might have to be satisfied with a season where their goal is to beat up on their in-state brethren. Patterson bested Texas, Baylor has temporarily suspended all football activities due to positive COVID tests, and Texas Tech’s only win was by two points against Houston Baptist in Week 1. The best possible culmination of this season would be the creation of a one-time DFW or Iron Skillet Bowl between TCU and SMU to proclaim the true kings of the Lone Star State, because we all know the Aggies will end up imploding sooner rather than later. l

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The Big 12 — TCU included — are screwed. To understand why, we must examine the transitive property of college football and its effect on voters. The property infers that if one team beats another, then a squad who beat the aforementioned game’s winner must be better than both. The formula in essence is a bit like the QAnon conspiracy theory: It isn’t valid, has little or no basis in logical thinking, but the fallout and consequences are quite real. Subscribing to this line of reasoning, as many who vote on the rankings do, the best program in the Big 12, as of now, are the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns. Second place are therefore the Arkansas State Red Wolves. But how?

Those teams both reside in the Sun Belt Conference who aren’t associated with the mighty power-five Big 12 at all. Unfortunately, ULL beat Iowa State (currently leading the Big 12) and ASU squeaked past Kansas State (Big 12 runner-up) in the opening week of COVID college football. There’s still plenty of football weeks remaining, but as of now it seems like ISU and KSU must only overcome the Oklahoma State Cowboys to advance toward a conference championship game appearance.

For our next exposé in doom and gloom, we’ll examine the state of Texas specifically. Texas-OU fought in their Red River Showdown over the weekend. A game that was grand in every aspect excepting the records of the competitors. The contest featured quarterback benching, special teams choking, questionable coaching calls, officiating less efficient than Congress, a heroic comeback, and four overtimes. What did we learn? That 2-2 OU is slightly better than 2-2 UT. This matchup hadn’t extended past four quarters in 24 years and consequently dragged through almost the entire first quarter of our Frogs hosting their purple counterparts, and Coach Gary Patterson’s alma mater, Kansas State. If you missed the opening quarter, it was one of the few stretches where Offensive Coordinator Sonny Cumbie’s offense looked synchronous and focused.

The Frogs’ second drive featured running back Darwin Barlow (#24) and quarterback Max Duggan (#15) moving their boys steadily downfield with a balanced run/pass attack that culminated with a Barlow touchdown and a 7-3 lead that the Wildcats would cut to a single point with a field goal on the subsequent drive. Three combined punts came next before the Frogs lost track of pint-sized K-state running back Deuce Vaughn (#22), who ripped a 45-yard reception to flip the field and lead to a touchdown with a matching two-point conversion and 7-point lead for the wrong-colored purple heading into halftime. TCU threatened to cut their deficit with a late field goal but was blocked during a 48-yard attempt to send the teams to their quarantine rooms.

Patterson’s defense started the third frame with a Josh Foster (#15) interception in center field which the offense squandered with a three-and-out drive. Both offenses stagnated on subsequent

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I met Nicholas Tijerina the same place most people would have met him. Nick T., as he was known, was basically ever-present behind the accessories counter at Guitar Center’s Hulen location for more than a decade. As the salesperson heading the department responsible for keeping guitar players well-stocked in essential products such as strings, picks, effects pedals, and the like, he undoubtedly sold something to everyone in town with an axe at some point. Few of GC’s

HearSay The Gig Dilemma

Now that venues are back open but the virus is surging again, the question for local musicians is: Should I play out, or should I stay home?

The correct answer (“stay home”) might appear obvious, but factor in a disastrous response to the pandemic from the federal government, an unnecessarily long lockdown that’s destroying businesses, and a presidential election pitting scientists against all-knowing, all-seeing Facebook users, and there’s just enough room for doubt for some musicians to seize upon and do whatever the hell they want. It doesn’t matter what any of us think. People gonna people. Players gonna play.

Here’s what should have happened: The feds should have paid us to stay home and should have suspended all rents and mortgages for a couple of months. All of that lost income could have been made up for in July or August, when we could have reopened confidently instead of what we did: reopen some places seemingly arbitrarily and close some others actually arbitrarily. (Is being in the holy presence of a cheeseburger all we need to keep us safe from catching the ’rona while out on the town?) Some dude on Twitter summed it up nicely: “Anybody else almost miss the

quarantine of March/April, where at least the rules were clear instead of this vague and bad time, where, like, half of your friends are shut indoors and the other half are recreating Woodstock at the local bar?”

Local Grammy winner Jordan Richardson (Son of Stan, Ben Harper) recently posed a sensible question that we shall all stop to ponder now: “I say this with all due respect to my siblings in the music and bar industry, but I have an issue with bands beginning to book shows at venues in Fort Worth/Dallas with the virus numbers going up back up again. Would anyone like to start a nice discussion about this below?”

Aside from an isolated flame war or two, most of the hundreds of comments were “nice” and insightful. User Andrew Maître Écureuil Mareschall agreed “1000%” with Richardson, saying, “Unless said venue cannot charge patrons for a livestream and subsequently social distance those patrons, it makes no sense. I think that that is the sole, responsible way to generate revenue for the venue and subsequent bands performing at a fixed rate or not at all. Small venue musicians are already at risk and at a disadvantage, and I’d purport that at whatever stipend, medium or small, it’s not worth one’s health and wellbeing to be playing shows until it is absolutely sensible.”

Local musician Justin Pate has experienced the paradox firsthand: “Played

at Tolbert’s [in Grapevine] last Friday. The lack of masks was disgusting. We’re not ready.” In an immediate reply to himself, he added, “The money was nice, though.”

Existential questions surround the debate. “Also,” commented Lisa Adrienne, “there’s just the overall moral/ethical question of: If it’s an event meant to draw people (which is usually the intent when you hire a DJ or band), is that a good idea right now? Am I (as a DJ) helping encourage people to congregate when case numbers are going back up again? Am I, in essence, being a scab when most of my fellow DJs are staying home (and forsaking any pay) in order to keep everyone else safe?”

Richardson is “sad for everyone,” he wrote. “I’m mostly sort of upset about bands moving forward tbh with that attitude of ‘Damn, they’ll have us, so we’ll play’ with little consideration beyond ‘wanting to rock’ or some dumb shit like that. … Feels very ‘scabby,’ too.”

People still gonna people, though, and to arrive at any sort of answer, we need to deal with the reality as it is rather than as it should be. Extra precautions are the only way forward. A few comments that stuck with me involved a legal-y approach: Musicians will simply inform the venue owner beforehand that if safety protocols are not followed by staff and customers, the band will pull out and be paid for the pleasure. The only missing

piece is the arbiter of what constitutes a lack of adherence to safety protocols. One man’s slipped mask may be another man’s attempted murder. Maybe one or two employees can serve as “COVID security” and do nothing but ensure safety protocols are followed — Fort Worth’s venues aren’t so big that two or three folks would not be able to handle the job. Or maybe it’s one employee and one FOTB (Friend of the Band), to ensure a bipartisan approach.

If they end up coming to blows, then the benefit of the doubt goes to the band. They don’t necessarily have to play as much as they’re needed to play by the venues — again, because our federal government failed us at the onset, businesses remain crippled, and, for venues, the only way out of the morass is by hosting more shows and encouraging more people to gather. Hahaha.

During a pandemic! Most musicians have day/night jobs. The venue’s employees don’t have anything else to fall back on. Making music themselves obviously doesn’t count.

As winter approaches and the bodycount continues to soar, our only hope is for new leadership at the federal level come January 2021 and a vaccine. Until then, you do you — as long as you’re 6 feet away from everyone else and wearing a damn mask. — Anthony Mariani Contact HearSay at anthony@fwweekly.com.

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Though he was known more for slinging picks and strings than gracing stages, he was an integral part of the Fort Worth music family and will be missed.

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more detail, he was always of Danni & Kris and Prizm, aloof. His very respectable and many more. golf game was made more To me, much like most curious by the fact he anyone who ever met him, played barefoot. He was Nick T. was a friend. All the prone to incredibly long, usual things that grieving ever-winding, multilayered people say about their lost stories — often broken loved ones certainly apply to up into little bits over the him. He was kind, selfless, course of hours — that and a source of joy for all would eventually lead to fortunate enough to know some profound point that him. He was a doting father The Fort Worth music was surprisingly worth the and a loving husband and community is a lot less bright windup. He almost never was unwaveringly faithful without Nick T. said a word that began with to his friends and family. All these things are undoubtedly true. He was a vowel without placing an “m” in front of it, also maybe the sweetly weirdest person I’ve as in “mimpossible.” (Don’t ask.)

He was also an inexhaustible fountain of ever known.

I can’t count the number of times I’ve unique catch phrases, (far too) inside jokes, tried to explain the enigma that he was to endless memes sent to friends and family via other people — all the while knowing no Facebook Messenger, and other generally words I could employ would be sufficient to convoluted “Nick T.-isms.” To know him was paint an accurate picture. He was a character to love him and to love these idiosyncrasies with countless eccentricities, which only as much as you did his kindness and his added to the depth by which you appreciated authenticity. These are the things that those him. His nails were always painted (toes, too), who loved him will remember him for. He his wrists jangled with multiple bracelets, and was as colorful as he was sincere. Our scene he had an affinity for pink guitars. Not that is far less bright, less rich, and certainly less these characteristics in and of themselves are interesting because his strange loveliness is particularly strange, but he would obsessively no longer in it. always wear his left sock inside out (“to keep He leaves behind a wife of five years, them even”) and always maintain a pocketful Brittany Ortega; a son, Herbert Orange of foreign coins (“just in case I’m in a pinch Ortega-Tijerina; his mother, Teresa Lopez; and can’t get an exchange on the dollar”). The siblings Lena and Nate; and many other messenger bag he carried contained nothing much-loved family members and friends. but “important papers.” When pressed for Rest easy, Nick. l Brittany Or tega

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Heartbreakingly, I received the news last Saturday that he had died just four days after his 37th birthday. It’s a crushing blow to Fort Worth’s music community.

Though he maybe never really got much traction with any of his own musical projects, he could often be found at local shows, attending as a supporter and a fan. Those residing on the stages get all the glory, and probably rightly so, but scenes just don’t exist without people like Nick T. Like the near mythological record store clerk dispensing his musical knowledge like a Gen-X hipster version of Buddha, the photographer braving sweat and flying elbows to document local shows from the floor, or the club owner willing to give nameless acts a stage to develop their stuff, guitar shop keepers also have their place in the structural undergirding of a music community.

As are his friends and family, many local musicians are mourning the loss as well. He’s received condolences on social media by singer-songwriter Ansley Dougherty, Mañana Cowboy’s Houston Holtman, Yokyo’s Samuel Culp and Hannah Witkowski, Kris Williams

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