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Dallas police Chief Daniel Comeaux speaks during a press conference at the Jack Evans Police Headquarters on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026 in Dallas. Comeaux told Sgt. Daylon Grandberry he had a “strong opinion” about the allegations against him and it was his “lucky day” before giving him a 15-day suspension.<\/p>\n
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Dallas Police Chief Daniel\u00a0Comeaux told a sergeant who copied a colleague\u2019s explicit video that it was his \u201clucky day\u201d before suspending him for 15 days, according to an audio recording reviewed by\u00a0The Dallas Morning News.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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An assistant chief had recommended Sgt. Daylon Grandberry be demoted after borrowing the phone of a female officer he sometimes supervised and sending himself a sexually explicit video<\/a> of her.\u00a0The sergeant said it was accidental. Some command staff suggested he was lying.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ll tell you, listening to you, reading this,\u201d Comeaux said, addressing Grandberry after conferring with command staff behind closed doors, \u201cI have an opinion \u2014 and a strong opinion \u2014 on what took place on this day.\u201d<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n \u201cBut it\u2019s just not enough for me to push me over the edge,\u201d he said. \u201cSo today is your lucky day.\u201d<\/p>\n Grandberry\u2019s 15-day suspension was a harsher punishment than what three officers in the sergeant\u2019s chain of command suggested but short of demotion.\u00a0<\/p>\n The chief\u2019s remarks, captured in audio recordings of the Aug. 2 disciplinary hearing, offer insight into his thinking in a case that has drawn\u00a0public criticism<\/a> from the Dallas Police Women\u2019s Association and council member Adam Bazaldua<\/a>.<\/p>\n Grandberry didn\u2019t respond Thursday to messages seeking comment on the recordings, which were provided to The News on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n The female officer, whose name is redacted from the recordings, told internal affairs that Grandberry had asked her out repeatedly. Grandberry told investigators he didn\u2019t know he had made her uncomfortable.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n The hearings also gave Grandberry an opportunity to explain his side. In his remarks before Comeaux, he said the \u201coptics are terrible\u201d and that he and the officer had an \u201congoing cat-and-mouse relationship\u201d that spanned years.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of how I am being portrayed is not who I am,\u201d Grandberry said, \u201cand so I would really like to get to a position where this doesn’t necessarily affect my career at the Dallas Police Department.\u201d<\/p>\n In a statement submitted to internal affairs months before the hearing, the officer said she and Grandberry had never had a romantic or personal relationship. She described their interactions as strictly professional and work-related.<\/p>\n She said the explicit video was in a password-protected folder titled \u201cHidden.\u201d Accessing the folder requires the phone\u2019s password.<\/p>\n The allegation was first examined as a possible crime. The female officer signed an affidavit of non-prosecution and declined an extraction of her phone, telling investigators she did not want the explicit video included in the record.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n The case was then referred to internal affairs, which concluded that Grandberry violated a section of the department’s code of conduct prohibiting behavior\u00a0that \u201cadversely\u201d affects departmental morale or efficiency or tends to diminish public respect and confidence in the department or officer.<\/p>\n