Twin Peaks in the #MeToo era, Botham Jean protest, Cowboys win: Your Monday morning roundup

September 17,  2018 By Todd Davis and Tommy Cummings Good morning! Here is a look at the top headlines as we start the day. Weather: Isolated thunderstorms with a 20% chance of rain. High of 92, low of 76. Prefer the online view? It's [here](. Customers are seen through a window of a Twin Peaks restaurant in June 2013 in Orlando, Fla. The chain’s growth in recent years has bucked a downward trend in the casual dining sector. (Ricky Brigante-Inside the Magic/via Flickr) COURTS In #MeToo era, can 'breastaurant' chain Twin Peaks survive wave of allegations? Crystal McBride didn’t mind wearing a crop top and shorts to work. She wasn’t bothered by flirty banter with customers — she’s practiced at deflecting comments with a playful, “Oh, I haven’t heard that one before,” or an exaggerated eye roll — and she enjoyed the hustle for tips. But McBride, who until recently worked at Twin Peaks locations around North Texas, did mind what she and other former employees of the Dallas-based "breastaurant" chain described in interviews and documents as a toxic work environment, where women employees were routinely pitted against one another, ranked based on arbitrary “tone scores” — evaluations of their bodies — and subjected to verbal harassment from customers and bosses alike. The Dallas Morning News spoke with five former employees, three “Twin Peaks Girls,” one female manager and one male manager. [Their stories paint a picture of a workplace rife with favoritism and abuse.](The environment, the workers said, wore them down, eroding their sense of self day by day. Even if they made money, the emotional toll became too high a cost. As the #MeToo movement forces employers across the world to reckon with harassment women often face on the job, can such businesses adapt? Can they address concerns of the women whose work and bodies form the foundation of their success? [Read the full story from eceonomy writer Jill Cowan.]( Drop the mic: A family pleaded guilty to their roles in a wire fraud scheme after investigators found they'd spent most of the[illegally obtained $875,300 to further their son's country music career.]( BOTHAM JEAN CASE Guyger reportedly 'vacated' apartment at complex where she killed Jean Dallas Officer Amber Guyger has moved out of the Cedars apartment complex where she fatally shot 26-year-old Botham Jean on Sept. 6, [a manager told residents in an email Sunday.]( WFAA-TV (Channel 8) obtained a copy of the email, which states that management at the South Side Flats complex cannot comment on the shooting while an investigation is ongoing. When a South Side Flats employee was reached by phone Sunday, she referred questions about the shooting to the Dallas Police Department. [An apartment manager did not immediately respond to emailed questions asking when Guyger moved out and whether she left voluntarily.]( 'You get to a boiling point': Botham Jean's [killing revives community's expectations of injustice.]( Protests continue: [Activists marched with coffins at AT&T Stadium]( where the Cowboys played the Giants to protest the Botham Jean killing. Cowboys 20, Giants 13 Plan was to turn the clock back to 2016, and Prescott ran it even further back From sports columnist Tim Cowlishaw After enduring a week of heavy and merited criticism, the Cowboys' plan was to turn back the clock for the national Sunday night audience. Most of us figured 2016 was the target. Dak Prescott went a step (and a year or two) further. Or, as Pro Bowl tweeter Dez Bryant offered in the fourth quarter of Sunday night's 20-13 victory over the Giants: "Mississippi state Dak I see ya!!!" While making a few big throws early, Prescott and the Cowboys offense still sputtered in the passing game as he finished with just 160 yards on 25 attempts, 64 of those coming on a first-quarter touchdown to Tavon Austin. [But Prescott enjoyed his biggest professional game running the football, carrying seven times for 45 yards to lift the Cowboys to a 1-1 record]( and, yes, a share of first place in the NFC East. Also: [The Cowboys' offense still has catching up to do](, but six sacks on Eli Manning makes that easy to forget. Photos: Check out the [tailgating scene]( and the [action on the field]( as Cowboys fans enjoy their first home game of the regular season. EDITORS' PICKS - Obituary: [Dallas reproductive rights pioneer Virginia Whitehill]( dies at 90. - Gromer Jeffers Jr.: Needing crossover voters, Beto O'Rourke sticks to his [liberal positions as Ted Cruz blasts his stand on NFL protests.]( - Fort Worth: [Two people were injured Sunday]( afternoon after a vehicle drove into a Sam's Club, officials say. - Moving down, moving up: TCU took a tumble in football polls, but [Texas A&M joined the top 25 rankings of the media and the coaches](. - Denton: [Two people were wounded in a shooting]( during a show at a Denton venue, police say. - Tarrant County: Police have arrested a man who led them to a woman's body [Sunday morning and told them he "might have" killed her.]( - Pleasant Grove: Police say a man was under the influence of drugs when he [caused a crash, injuring three children late Saturday.]( Santos Monroy walks out of the Dallas federal building on Thursday. He was one of more than a dozen workers who were told to report to immigration court only to find out their cases were not on the court docket. (Diane Solis/Staff photo) Finally ... ICE is ordering immigrants to appear in court, but judges aren’t expecting them More than a dozen immigrants reported for Dallas court hearings on their [deportation cases Thursday only to be turned away]( They’d been ordered to be in court by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But their official notices to appear on Sept. 13 were greeted by court staffers who matter-of-factly called them “fake dates. The orders to appear are not fake, but ICE apparently never coordinated or cleared the dates with the immigration courts. It’s a phenomenon that appears to be popping up around the nation, with reports of “fake dates” or “dummy dates” in Dallas, Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, Atlanta and Miami Some immigrants have even been given documents ordering them to be in court at midnight, on weekends and on a date that doesn’t exist: Sept. 31. [The result, immigrant advocates say, is more “chaos” in the heavily backlogged immigration court system.]( 👋 That's all for this morning! For up-to-the-minute news and analysis, check out [DallasNews.com](. Share the love! If you like this newsletter, please forward this email to a friend and [check out our other newsletters here](. Do you have feedback? Send your thoughts, questions, praise and corrections to [newsletter-feedback@dallasnews.com](mailto:newsletter-feedback@dallasnews.com?subject=). 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