The family of Anthony Johnson Jr. — who died in Tarrant County Jail custody last year — is trying to keep Tarrant County on as a defendant in their lawsuit against the county and 15 jailers.

In August of 1670, several months after Anthony Johnson's death, a jury in a Virginia court decided that, because "he was a Negro and by consequence an alien," ownership of the 250 acres Johnson ...

A U.S. district judge dismissed the claims against Tarrant County in the civil case brought by the family of Anthony Johnson Jr., who was killed at the county jail in April, according to the ...