{"id":1144291,"date":"2022-07-15T09:41:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T14:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1144291"},"modified":"2022-07-17T09:15:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T14:15:32","slug":"family-of-former-smith-county-constable-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1144291","title":{"rendered":"Family of former Smith County constable speaks out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1135496\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/06\/const-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The family of former constable Curtis Traylor-Harris is speaking out after the Smith County District Attorney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office released the bodycam footage from the incident relating to his charges. That&#8217;s according to our news partner KETK.  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a lot said about Constable Harris that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just not accurate or true,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Benet Embry, Traylor-Harris\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brother-in-law and the spokesperson for the family. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the demon that the media and social media has portrayed.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Traylor-Harris (pictured) had a pre-trial hearing on his theft of property and official oppression charges Thursday morning, and is currently scheduled on the plea agreement docket for August. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Embry said that people who watch the video will not see Traylor-Harris put stolen items in his shirt, or see him order people steal things. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153They see him basically searching the house, finding narcotics, finding weapons, finding ammunition and things of that nature,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Embry said. Embry added that Traylor-Harris talks to his sister from jail every day, and met his one-month old nephew via chat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The family of former constable Curtis Traylor-Harris is speaking out after the Smith County District Attorney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office released the bodycam footage from the incident relating to his charges. That&#8217;s according to our news partner KETK. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a lot said about Constable Harris that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just not accurate or true,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Benet Embry, Traylor-Harris\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1144291\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Family of former Smith County constable speaks out<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1144297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/06\/const-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Family of former Smith County constable speaks out","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 04:36:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/06\/const-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Family of former Smith County constable speaks out","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1144291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144295,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144291\/revisions\/1144295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1144297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1144291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1144291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1144291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}