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Fort Worth Police Officer Whose Uncle Died In Police Custody Hopes Departments Can Change

Christopher Lowe in 2018, helping his niece Tiffany Bunton plant flowers at her home.
Courtesy of Tiffany Bunton
Christopher Lowe in 2018, helping his niece Tiffany Bunton plant flowers at her home.

When her uncle died in the back of a squad car two years ago, Fort Worth police officer Tiffany Bunton said she cried her eyes out in front of her department's leaders. Now that the police killing of George Floyd has sparked a moment of national reckoning around police violence, Bunton said she hopes officers will hold one another accountable so they can keep their communities safe.

In this weekend’s edition of The Brief podcast, listento why Bunton believes this moment can be a catalyst for changing police departments.

The Texas Tribune provided this story.

Emma Platoff is a breaking news reporter at The Texas Tribune. She previously worked at the Tribune as a reporting fellow and is a recent graduate of Yale University, where she studied English literature and nonfiction writing. She has also worked as the managing editor of the Yale Daily News and as an intern at The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Hartford Courant.