Officers outside the Tom Green County Courthouse to provide security for the mandatory 14-day custody hearing for over 400 children removed from the FLDS Church’s YFZ Ranch. People began arriving pretty early. I had met this woman the day before when we poked our heads into her SUV. She stood outside the courthouse for a [...]
This kind of shot is something you pre-plan. You know they’ll be walking down the steps so you try to make it interesting. Also interesting, since this was the first hearing, none of the Texas media knew who this guy was, or that he was an FLDS member. He made it past the media pack [...]
Here and now I’m presenting the awards for the past two weeks spent covering the polygamy raid in Texas. I fully recognize that all of you involved (media, CPS, FLDS) were deserving of some award or another, and I had a hard time narrowing it down to these finalists. So if you didn’t win (or [...]
I’m sure that the FLDS will appreciate this photo of the Tom Green County Courthouse this morning. After Friday’s crazy media scene, the court officers have moved the media lines back about twenty feet and the new yellow tape they put up to keep us back reads, “CRIME SCENE.” I spent the morning photographing people [...]
