Trent Bennett Biography
Trent Bennett is an American Journalist who joined the KETK news team as the Longview bureau reporter in November 2016. He is a native East Texan who is thankful to begin his career close to his hometown of Hallsville. While in high school, Trent made his first appearance on the KETK airwaves during an interview on East Texas Live to talk about his lead role in local production.
Trent Bennett Age
Bennett was born on November 15, 1990. He is 28 years as of 2018.
Trent Bennett Education
Trent would attend college in East Texas at Stephen F. Austin State University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in theatre arts and a minor in English. His many leading roles performed in front of as many as a thousand people would prepare Trent for his future on TV. He would eventually fall in love with journalism while filling in for an SFA sports report.
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‘I LOST MY BEST FRIEND’: Liberty City woman shares friendship with Botham Jean during Amber Guyger trial
DALLAS, Texas (KETK) – Alexis Stossel of Kilgore says she was glad to take the stand in the trial of former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger for the murder of Botham Jean.
Botham, she said, was one of, if not the, most genuine humans she has ever known. The two were classmates and best friends.
They met at Harding University in Arkansas, and that friendship would blossom. From memories made in the church to the lunches together after the Sunday service.
Her favorite of those memories was a road trip from East Texas to Tennessee where they spent 10 hours in the car to go to another friend’s wedding.
That night of September 6, 2018, Stossel was texting Jean. On the witness stand in Amber Guyger’s trial, she described the moments after she found out of his death.
“I was told that Botham had been shot and he didn’t make it,” she said. “Slumped to the floor and just kept screaming, ‘wait wait wait!’ I hung up the phone and I called Botham 7 times.”
She says the worst part of this is knowing that he isn’t there anymore to pick up the phone. Stossel says she has one regret, and that was never telling Botham how much of an impact he left on her.
Trent Bennett Vegan Industry
GOT BEEF?: Meat makers declare war on the vegan industry
The meat cattle industry has been a growing and profitable market for a long time. But some feel the United States is protecting the industry at all costs — by imposing tough laws that are choking the plant-based industry.
Mississippi has made it illegal for companies who make vegan and vegetarian foods to label their products as “meat or meat food products.” Lawmakers said the law would prevent consumer confusion between meat alternatives and actual meat. But the vegan food makers are fighting back.
The Institute for Justice, a law firm that litigates cases to limit the size and scope of government, has filed a federal lawsuit against Mississippi on behalf of the Plant-Based Foods Association. The suit challenges the constitutionality of the state’s labeling law; claiming the law impedes vegan food makers’ First Amendment right to free speech.
The lead plaintiff in the case is Upton’s Naturals, a Chicago-based vegan food manufacturer. The company makes about a half dozen products that are entirely vegan. However, it labels them with well-known terms like “burger,” “bacon” and “chorizo” so customers know what kind of meat alternatives they’re buying.
Daniel Staackman, the company’s founder, said Upton’s Naturals lawsuit against the state is about protecting its right to market its brand with common sense words that its customers are already accustomed to using, as it relates to food.
Dan Staackman, a founder of Upton’s Naturals, stands inside of the company’s Chicago factory where it produces a half dozen meat alternatives. Upton’s Naturals has filed a federal lawsuit against Mississippi, claiming the state’s labeling law is violates its first amendment right to free speech. (Fox News/ Charles Watson)
“It’s really the consumers that are going to lose out by having to change these words in a way that they won’t understand,” Staackman said.
It’s a battle playing out all across the country as the makers of vegan food have perfected the taste of artificial meat — stunning the pork, cattle and even fish industry with lab-grown food that essentially replicates the taste of animal meat.
Now, states are taking issue with the package wording, saying that adding “meat” to vegan dishes confuses consumers.
Staackman said he believed the Mississippi law, which recently went into effect on July 1, was simply a ploy to shelter the state’s meat industry. “This is really a protectionist move on the part of the meat industry to try to squash our progress,” he said.
The Mississippi Cattlemen’s Association, a legislative advocate that represents 3,500 beef producers around the state, supported the passage of the state law. The association said the law would ensure fairness in grocery stores against its competitors.
Trent Bennett Save Our Students
SAVE OUR STUDENTS: In-depth look at mental health and the solution to the problem
As the number of Texas students struggling with depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses continues to rise, we wanted to know the conditions inside the schools themselves, and what’s being done about this emerging crisis.
We first met Officer Wayne Sneed in a courtyard outside the Austin Independent School District’s downtown headquarters. The plan was to ride along with him for a few hours to see what a typical day is like.
At 6’4” and 240 lbs., the 58-year-old is built like a Navy SEAL, an intimidating presence. Yet a flash of his smile and calm demeanor have a way of quickly putting people at ease.
My photographer and I were unloading our gear and in the process of introducing ourselves when a look of concern came over Sneed’s face. He’d just heard the dispatcher talk into his earpiece, sending him to a call at south Austin’s Mendez Middle School.
It was urgent. The three of us hustled to his unmarked black SUV, admittedly slower than he would have liked, threw our cameras and microphones inside and took off.
“We got a parent, possibly parent with children on campus at Mendez Middle school who is threatening to cut her wrist,” Sneed said while stepping on the gas and racing down 5th Street toward Interstate 35.
Over the scanner, a dispatcher asked, “Do we need to place the school on lockdown or hold?” Sneed turned on his sirens.
“They’ll do it on a lockout because, since she’s got a weapon, she’s outside the school, just want to make sure that no students get endangered by her actions,” he explained.
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