Dallas Police Chief David Brown Would Prefer Not to Be Called a "Cocksucker"

By Brantley Hargrove Tue., Jan. 7 2014 at 7:00 AM

Dallas Police Chief David Brown engaged in a brief Twitter spat with DMN reporter Scott Goldstein Monday. It all stems from an incident outside of Brown's office, when Tanya Eiserer, longtime crime reporter with The Dallas Morning News, dissatisfied with the fact that she would not get the exclusive she'd been promised, shouted "cocksucker" and "asshole."

According to The Black Police Association of Greater Dallas, those words were aimed at Brown. The DMN claims Eiserer was simply cursing in frustration at no one in particular. Frankly, who cares? In the friction of the journalist-public servant interaction, sparks will fly. But Brown hasn't forgotten it, and he took Goldstein's bait when the reporter sent out this tweet:

Great piece by colleagues @TristanHallman and @tanyaeiserer. As is often the case, @DPDChief did not respond to request for comment.
— Scott Goldstein (@sgoldstein) January 4, 2014

I haven't yet gotten tired of seeing the following tweet associated with the official Twitter account of the police chief. You've got to admire the man for leaving it up instead of deleting it. Brown responded thusly:

@sgoldstein that's not true Scott,,,,I work really well with the majority of the reporters that cover our beat
— Chief David O. Brown (@DPDChief) January 4, 2014

@sgoldstein I don't care for being called an asshole and cocksucker though by the Belo folks
— Chief David O. Brown (@DPDChief) January 4, 2014

This fleeting instant of laudable candidness Brown soon regretted.

@sgoldstein I shouldn't have referenced the curse words Senior Dallas Morning News reporterTanya Eiserer called me
— Chief David O. Brown (@DPDChief) January 6, 2014

@sgoldstein my apologies a better choice would have been to just continue to ignore these reporters and their vulgarity.
— Chief David O. Brown (@DPDChief) January 6, 2014

The year is young, but this exchange, I think, is a strong contender for best of 2014.

H/T Frontburner

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jenny.foxie

This is cool.

Obummer

Yo; he should be fined fo' wasting any tyme on Twitter, an' he should git back ta werk.

ginger4v

Fire him! Just like Rhome, pride and greed active all will fall. The black police association is only to keep racial divide. If it wasn't there, where would the race card be?

AdamsonScott

Why do we need a "Black Police Association of Greater Dallas"?

GAA214

He's a PIG. He is a cocksucker and asshole.

Neal_K

This Tanya Eiserer person sounds homophobic. Wasn't Alec Baldwin fired for saying the same thing?

And why does she care about getting an "exclusive"? Just interview the chief and call it an exclusive. Done and done. No one gives a crap about exclusives anyway except the journalists claiming they got one.

Catbird

Homophobe.

gm0622

Well, if the item in question fits.....................

James_the_P3

Language like that will get you thrown out of a baseball game--just ask Crash Davis.

gadfly

The incident the chief is tweeting about happened in 2011. At least he doesn't hold a grudge.

P1Gunter

He wouldn't last long in Deadwood

bmarvel topcommenter

I just don't understand what happened here.

Journalists, unlike other mortals, just never use that kind of language when thwarted or frustrated by a public official who dodges the press or cancels an interview.

And I'm sure neither of those words have ever passed the lips of any of the comment-posters here.

Voot

Your post about this is so much more honest than Tim Rogers'.

AreaMan

Oh noooooo!! Someone said a "naughty" word! My delicate sensibilities! Won't someone please think of the children!? ::farts::

kosmoemg

She should be barred from further contact with city hall, and cited for abusive language to a City official

ruddski

Reporters have to realize the golden age of assumed superiority is over, and the news media polls as low as dirt.

Gangy

Go, chief, go!

cawnlu

Wow, very classy Ms. Hallman. Spoken like true trailer park trash.

paulpsycho78

@ginger4v Jim Rhome?

everlastingphelps topcommenter

@P1Gunter If someone had called Bullock a cocksucker in public, he would have beaten the shit out of them in the road, if he didn't end up beating them to death. So, yeah, Brown would have to get a little more physical to survive in Deadwood.