The Houston Chronicle reports that “the last time Fort Bend County elected an African-American sheriff, four years after the Civil War, the racial caste system was so firm in the United States that Walter Moses Burton had to hire a white deputy to handle all arrests of white suspects.”
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Newly elected Eric Fagan, “pledged to supporters at the Fort Bend Church in Sugar Land that he would reform the Sheriff’s Office, including by requiring all deputies to wear body cameras, banning chokeholds and creating a diverse citizen review board. He said has already hired a diverse command staff, whom he asked to stand in their pews.”
The African American Democrat defeated Republican Trever Nehls, brother of incumbent Sheriff Troy Nehls, in November.
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