A member of the Dallas County District Attorney's office is among those expressing outrage and questions about the Eric Garner case.
On December 3, 2014, a Staten Island, New York grand jury declined to indict a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man.
As protests continued for a second day after the decision, the mood was more subdued in Dallas, where we found questions along with concern.
"Being African-American, I feel it doesn't matter if we're wrong or right," said Frank McGillvery of Dallas.
"Everyone's outraged," said El Centro college student Enny LaBinjo, who was born in England. "I pray for peace. I pray for proper conduct."
The Garner case decision disappointed Russell Wilson, Special Fields Bureau Chief with the Dallas County District Attorney's Office. He oversees excessive force cases.
"It looks like there's some other ways Mr. Garner could have been taken into custody without the use of a lethal chokehold," said Wilson.
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"When I see the video and I know that a chokehold that's being used is outlawed, I think you send the absolute wrong message to the public. Because you're telling the public regardless of the color of their skin, that an officer detaining you in this case for 'Loosies' [single cigarettes removed from a pack and then sold individually] to use a choke hold that could result in a death and that cannot be a crime. People have difficulty trusting somebody if that's the circumstance."
Across the country, some criticized prosecutors for not getting indictments of officers because they need cooperation in other cases. Wilson said that's not the case in Dallas.
"We've indicted three police officers in the last year," Wilson said. "We prosecuted and convicted several officers on a variety of official oppression charges."
Many North Texas police departments outfit officers with Body Cameras. But Wilson said that does not mean excessive force issues will end.
"If we want to change how people use force, then that's not necessarily going to be a Body Camera issue," Wilson said.
"That may be training. That may be community awareness, that may be a whole host of other issues."
