{"id":371763,"date":"2026-07-13T23:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371763\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T23:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:04:09","slug":"tarrant-count-groups-to-rally-after-4-jail-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371763\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarrant Count groups to rally after 4 jail deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/TarrantCountyJail_02.JPG\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"The Tarrant County Corrections Center, right, and Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center in downtown Fort Worth on Wednesday, March 2, 2022.\" alt=\"A view of the Tarrant County Jail with Fort Worth's downtown skyline behind it.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        The Tarrant County Corrections Center, right, and Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center in downtown Fort Worth on Wednesday, March 2, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>                Amanda McCoy<\/p>\n<p>            amccoy@star-telegram.com<\/p>\n<p>A collection of Democratic advocacy groups will join together Tuesday morning to raise awareness and demand justice after four people died in 11 days in the custody of or shortly after being released from the Tarrant County Jail.<\/p>\n<p>The 8 a.m. rally and march will begin on the north side of the Tarrant County Corrections Center with speakers from advocacy groups and politicians before marching to the Tarrant County Administration Building, 100 E. Weatherford St., where the Commissioners Court meeting will take place.<\/p>\n<p>The four deceased are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/article316334014.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Runnels<\/a>, 61, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/article316197703.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mack Greer<\/a>, 49, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/fort-worth\/article316153675.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Kent Johnson<\/a>, 40, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/fort-worth\/article316169050.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carl Avery McCray<\/a>, 40. All happened in the five weeks since the commissioners last met on June 9.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers of the rally distinguished that the rally will be peaceful. The rally will be on Bastille Day, which recognizes the storming of the French political prison, the Bastille, and the start of the French Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBastille Day commemorates the storming of a prison that had become a symbol of unchecked government power and injustice,\u201d the rally press release said. \u201cWe gather at the Tarrant County Jail for the same reason: to stand against a system where too many people, especially those accused of low level offenses, are unable to afford bail and remain behind bars while lives are lost waiting for justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/301084309\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/RACHEL_ROYSTER.jpeg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Rachel Royster\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/301084309\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Royster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Rachel Royster is a news and government reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, specifically focused on Tarrant County. She joined the newsroom after interning at the Austin American-Statesman, the Waco Tribune-Herald and Capital Community News in DC. A Houston native and Baylor grad, Rachel enjoys traveling, reading and being outside. She welcomes any and all news tips to her email.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tarrant County Corrections Center, right, and Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center in downtown Fort Worth on Wednesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-371763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}