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Fri Oct 2, 2015, 02:22 AM Oct 2015

DPS Chief Calls Harassment Claims "Garbage"

LAREDO — Claims that state troopers are harassing residents along the border are "garbage," the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety said Thursday.

“That’s garbage, that’s the bottom line,” DPS Director Steve McCraw said of accusations that troopers sent to the Rio Grande Valley as part of the state's border surge of law enforcement are doing nothing more than pulling over people for traffic violations and mistreating them.

“Anybody has a complaint about how a trooper has treated them at any given time, we want to know about it because we’ll certainly investigate it,” he told reporters during a meeting of the Texas Border Coalition, an advocacy group composed of elected officials and community and business leaders from the Texas-Mexico border. “If they’re treated without respect, we will address it case by case and we’ve got the video to prove it.”

McCraw's comments came after some TBC members expressed concerns about the $800 million the Texas Legislature allocated last session for an unprecedented buildup of state law enforcement along the border.

Read more: http://www.texastribune.org/2015/10/01/dps-chief-says-agency-will-investigate-any-alleged/

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