Dallas police chief fires officer who was arrested on family violence assault charge

Dallas police Chief Eddie García on Monday fired an officer arrested on a family violence charge.

Officer Javier Granados was terminated during a disciplinary hearing for escalating a disturbance that resulted in a police response and for engaging in adverse conduct when he was arrested, according to an email sent internally to Dallas police employees. García did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Granados was arrested Nov. 17 on a misdemeanor charge of family violence assault during an off-duty incident, police said. The status of the case was unclear Monday. Granados’ attorney did not respond to a request for comment.

The woman who reported the assault told investigators she and Granados argued and he showed up to her workplace in Dallas, according to an arrest-warrant affidavit.

The woman said she called police and waited for officers for more than an hour, and Granados left, the affidavit says. She said she went to a home in Dallas, and Granados showed up and closed a door on her finger, spat in her face and slammed her into a door, which caused her ear to bleed, the affidavit says.

Granados yelled, “Is this what you wanted me to do?,” and the woman called police, the affidavit says. Responding officers noticed blood on the woman’s ear and a swollen finger, according to the affidavit.

Granados had been with the department since September 2019 and was assigned to the Southeast Patrol Division. He can appeal the chief’s decision to fire him.

García also handed down a five-day suspension Monday to Officer Caleb McCollum after an investigation concluded into a challenge coin he made and tried to sell, which was decried last year by the Black Police Association as racist.