DPD Chief Brown Suspends Officer Who Shoved Occupy Dallas Protestor For One Day

By Robert Wilonsky
Dallas Observer
Dec. 16, 2011

At the top, that's Hollis giving Benavides a shove off the planter, as seen in this video that led the DPD chief to open his investigation"‹Seems like forever ago, but it was just last month that Stephen Benavides spent a few days in county lock-up on charges of assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest during that Occupy Dallas protest at the downtown Bank of America. But then, a few days and one YouTube clip later, Dallas Police Chief David Brown acknowledged: Benavides maybe didn't start it. Maybe an off-duty DPD officer working an off-duty security job maybe pushed Benavides off that downtown-sidewalk planter. At which point Brown ordered a formal investigation.

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