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The Dallas Assist the Officer Foundation in Dallas Texas was created in 1999 to assist the first responder community financially if they suffered injury, illness or death. Now the ATO is providing a stage to hear their incredible stories so we can learn, heal and honor those who served before and after us. Take a journey with the ATO hosts as we provide the loyal listener a peek behind the curtain of the very complex and trauma filled first responder world. Contact us at atobridging@gmail.com Instagram: ato_bridging_divide ATODALLAS.org #Dallas #Texascrime #firstresponders #mentalhealth #policestories #firefighters #firstresponderpodcast #wellness #police #policepodcasts #coplife #policecriticalincidents #truecrime #policedetectives #SWAT #DallasSWAT #truecrimejunkie #truecrimeobsessed #crime #murder #truecrimefan #truepolicestories #podcasts #investigations #murdercase #activeshooter #detective #dallaspolice
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Sunday Dec 17, 2023
Sunday Dec 17, 2023
In Remembrance of James Lynn Baker II, A.K.A “Mr. Jackson”
”The Dallas SWAT saved my life”
This show takes pride in providing a variety of topics and guests and although we are all different, we are still human beings. We are flawed, we are complex, we are unique, and we all have the potential to serve at the highest levels. However, some of us take very different paths….dark paths, before we find our true calling.
Life for all of us is literally like a pot of boiling water and what we become in that water will determine and define who we become in this finite life.
Today’s guest will tell the listener how he became hooked on meth and traveled down a dark path that led him on a collision course and a date with destiny with our Dallas SWAT on July 30th, 2008.
The Uptown Dallas area was on high alert after several citizens were victimized as they not only lost their property but also their sense of security. Today’s guest was the ringleader of these crimes and was captured and sentenced to sixty-five years in the Texas Prison system.
In true Shawshank Redemption fashion this guest received help and guidance from the most unlikely of people as he was about to enter the ultra-hot boiling pot of prison life.
The coffee bean story was born and applied as today’s guest fought, learned, and grew as a person through his journey in the penal system and created a mission to help others and be a change agent as he shared his experience and story with others to try to inspire and motivate others.
The Damon West story has been told on many platforms and stages, all across the world, but never from a stage inside of the police department that changed his life fifteen years ago. ATO Family sit back and soak in the coffee bean story and ask yourself, How can I be a change agent in life?
Incidents discussed:
Damon West arrest by the Dallas SWAT Unit on July 30th, 2008, for the Uptown Burglaries.
Trial, verdict and sentence on May 18th, 2009, for his role in the crimes. Presiding over the proceedings was Judge Mike Snipes.
Dallas County jail to TDCJ from 2009- 2015.
Damonwest.org
The best-selling novel:
The Change Agent: How a Former College QB Sentenced to Life in Prison Transformed His World
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