Ex-cop pleads guilty to 2020 protest assault in Dallas

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(Elías Valverde II) [Ex-cop pleads guilty to 2020 protest assault years after Dallas PD found it wasn’t a crime]( A crowd outside City Hall swelled to several hundred peaceful protesters on Saturday, May 30, 2020, the second straight day of demonstrations in downtown Dallas decrying police brutality after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. An armored vehicle rolled in, and SWAT officers in riot gear unleashed tear gas. The crowd dispersed and headed toward Canton and South Akard streets. Zachary Montez Harvey of Fort Worth huddled with a group on a street corner opposite police. Officer Broderick Valentine stood on a grassy median. “I was peacefully protesting, I wasn’t assaulting an officer,” Harvey told The Dallas Morning News in a recent phone interview. “I was on public property, I wasn’t doing anything impeding, and [no one ordered me to get away](." 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