Dallas DA tweaks theft policy, Dallas Cowboys coworking center: Your Friday morning roundup

 [Morning roundup]( 06/14/2019 By Mallorie Sullivan and Carla Solórzano Good morning! Here is a look at the top headlines as we start the day. 🌥️ Weather: Partly cloudy, breezy, noticeably warmer and more humid. High of 90. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [her]( Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot said Thursday that his office now allows police departments to resubmit cases the chiefs believe were wrongly rejected. (Ben Torres/Special Contributor) CRIME [Dallas DA tweaks plan giving some petty thieves a pass — but will he win over police?]( Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot [has tweaked the controversial theft policy he unveiled two months ago]( that prompted an uncharacteristically loud and negative response from local police chiefs. Creuzot told The Dallas Morning News his office now allows police departments to resubmit cases the chiefs believe were wrongly rejected. He acknowledged that prosecutors initially tossed cases that should have been accepted. "We've asked the chiefs to send those back," the DA said. But the move has done little, if anything, to temper police criticism about a policy that Creuzot says will decriminalize poverty by not prosecuting petty thieves who steal baby formula, diapers and food for their families because they can't pay.  Fort Worth: Police released video of three officers standing in front of a white pickup [repeatedly shouting orders at a man to drop his gun before they opened fire](.   Also: [Dallas police are investigating a shooting]( that left a man with several injuries Wednesday night in South Dallas.  ADVERTISEMENT POLITICS [Bleary-eyed lawmakers steamed as Texan Chip Roy keeps House in session till 4 a.m.]( Grumpy lawmakers in both parties blasted Texas freshman Rep. Chip Roy on Thursday for keeping the House in session until 4 a.m., demanding roll call votes on scores of amendments as the House considered $1 trillion in federal spending. Some grumbled about losing sleep, others about missing baseball practice. Few defended the Austin Republican, who was trying to make a point about red ink and the need to spend more on border security. [Many accused Roy of grandstanding.]( "There is the normal legislative process where you carry your points and if you don't have the votes, you don't win that round. That's the way it's supposed to work around here," said another Texas freshman, Rep. Colin Allred, a Dallas Democrat. "It's not just, you gum up the works and make things hard." Said Rep. Bill Flores, a Bryan Republican, "I think it's worthless. I think he's wasting everybody's time and it's keeping us from doing more important things, not that this House is getting a lot done."  Also: Beto O'Rourke slammed Joe Biden on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe,' [saying the U.S. can do 'far better' than the former vice president.](   BUSINESS [Dallas Cowboys score with new Frisco shared office center]( The Dallas Cowboys have scored a touchdown with their new coworking center in Frisco. [The shared office space that's part of the Cowboys' Star development]( doesn't open for two months but is already substantially spoken for. "We are actually sold out of the private offices and are close to fully leased on the dedicated desks," said Jerry Jones Jr., the Cowboys' chief sales and marketing officer. "That's not typical, leasing before people can see it. "You have a huge association with the Cowboys and the Star and what this whole project means," Jones said.  Courts: [Academy Sports + Outdoors filed a petition with the Texas Supreme Court]( arguing that federal laws protect it from liability for its April 2016 sale of a rifle and two magazines to Sutherland Springs gunman.   Arlington: [The hot sector in the new-home market is houses aimed at aging Gen-Xers and baby boomers]( who have deep pockets and are looking for a smaller home.  ADVERTISEMENT EDITORS' PICKS - Theater: Dallas Cowboys great Greg Ellis [is moving on from his hit movie about Carter High to a play about Juneteenth.]( - Commentary: [Women, we need to rework our language to be heard](. - Life: A vegan diet turned James McGee’s life around, and he [hopes to pass on the plant-based love to his DeSoto community through his smoothie and juice restaurant](. The Kalita Humphreys Theater is the only theater designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. (Ashley Landis/Staff Photographer) FINALLY... [At long last, Dallas has a plan to restore to glory Frank Lloyd Wright's decaying Kalita Humphreys Theater]( City columnist Robert Wilonsky writes: At last, Dallas City Hall has a plan to restore the lone theater designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, an acre-sized, 60-year-old historic landmark in Turtle Creek oft described as moldering, decaying, forgotten. And that plan, arrived at after much teeth-gnashing and soul-searching among all involved, is that someone should be hired to come up with a plan. This may sound like nothing special, just more of the same from Your City Hall, the place that famously talks about talking about doing something about that thing it never does anything about. But this development for the Kalita Humphreys Theater is a big deal. Progress, I dare say. [Just getting here, to this starting point, was no easy thing.](  👋 That's all for this morning! For up-to-the-minute news and analysis, check out [DallasNews.com](. 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