In closing arguments, attorneys spar over motive in violent Prairieland ICE protest ... and more news

The arguments capped the two-week trial stemming from the July 4 protest last year in which an Alvarado police officer was shot and wounded. Jury deliberations will begin Thursday. In other news, customers of Invitation Homes, a Dallas-based single-family home landlord, could get a piece of a $47.2 million settlement the Federal Trade Commission announced on Wednesday; a development in southern Dallas is a finalist for a competition hosted by Elon Musk’s The Boring Company. Hoque Global’s University Hills project is among 16 other finalists for the drilling company’s plan to construct a mile-long tunnel; and Rep. Marc Veasey is urging Major League Baseball and the Texas Rangers to remove a recently installed statue at the team’s ballpark that he says honors a law enforcement officer linked to segregation-era resistance to school integration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices