In the Spring of 1848, William “Big Foot” Wallace led 30 Texas Rangers on a raid on an unsuspecting Lipan Apache camp in the Medina River Valley. There was documentation

#OTD in 1970, the Texas Civil Rights Advisory Committee called for the abolition of the Texas Rangers.  https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/10/archives/civil-rights-unit-would-disband-texas-rangers-advisory-group-says.html The Committee was an advisory arm of the United States Civil Rights

#OTD in 1925 the Texas legislature passed SB 174, making illegal search and seizure by police a crime. Rep JT Canales had asked for more robust protections during the Canales

In March 1847, in South Texas, a group of Texas Rangers under the direction of Marby “Mustang” Gray murdered the entire adult male population of a village. Supposedly, this was

#OTD on March 17, 1919 the Texas Legislature significantly restructured the Texas Rangers by passing House Bill No. 5, originally authored by Rep. J. T. Canales. This was one of

#OTD on March 19, 1840, Texas Rangers and militiamen killed thirty-five and imprisoned thirty Penateka Comanche people during a Council House meeting in San Antonio, TX while negotiating captives with

#OTD in 1923 Gov Pat Neff signed Senate Bill No. 8 prohibiting law enforcement from torturing suspects to secure a confession for a crime. This was another measure reforming police

On or shortly after March 28, 1839, Texas Rangers, captured, interrogated, and executed two unnamed men who had escaped slavery, leaving their bodies in what may be a mass grave

#OTD in 1875 the Nuecestown Raid occurred. In the 1870s and 1880s across the Southwest, a number of raids by Mexican outlaws into the US, as well as Anglo raids

On March 29, 2019 the film The Highwaymen premiered on Netflix. The film dramatizes Texas Rangers Frank Hamer and Maney Gault’s hunt for Bonnie and Clyde. The film celebrates the

#OTD in 1881 the Texas Rangers crossed the border into Mexico to illegally apprehend Onofrio Baca on a charge of murder. They delivered Baca to authorities in New Mexico. He