{"id":473862,"date":"2026-10-22T22:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T22:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473862\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T22:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T22:38:13","slug":"i-20-and-i-45-in-dallas-shut-down-for-police-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473862\/","title":{"rendered":"I-20 and I-45 in Dallas shut down for police activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/102226-sky-4-109p-kdfweme003_13_09_44_mpg_00.13.39.04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-31bc2d2e=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; Interstate 20 and Interstate 45 were completely shut down in Dallas because of police activity.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Dallas police said officers were called to the eastbound LBJ Freeway ramp at the Julius Schepps Freeway around 10 a.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">All lanes of I-20 and I-45 were shut down in that area because of the police activity on the bridge overpass.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Images from SKY 4 showed officers attempting to speak to a man who was standing on the side of the bridge. SWAT and ambulance vehicles were also at the scene.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Big picture view:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Traffic appeared to be backed up for miles in all directions on I-20 and I-45.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Drivers were encouraged to avoid the area if possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story comes from Dallas police and the SKY 4 helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/traffic\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\/south-dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Dallas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article DALLAS &#8211; Interstate 20 and Interstate 45 were completely shut down in Dallas because of police activity.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,581,104,103,223,1884,272,216,393],"class_list":["post-473862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-news","tag-south-dallas","tag-traffic","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473862","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=473862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}