News From A Colorful Perspective
Botham Jean, Jemel Roberson and Emantic Bradford Jr. were all minding their own business, not mouthing off, and they were shot dead by police. Sandra Bland questioned an officer and wound up dead in a jail cell. So when a video of an unidentified white man spewing expletives at an…
Amber Guyger, a former Dallas police officer, has been indicted by a Dallas County grand jury on a murder charge in the killing of Botham Jean. Guyger fatally shot Jean, a 26-year-old Black man, her neighbor, after entering his apartment in September. She turned herself in and was arrested on…
Jemel Roberson’s killer, a Midloathian officer, has not been named for over two weeks, and the civil rights attorney for the family says it’s hiding evidence. Other than the officer being identified as white, a four-year veteran of the Midloathian Police Department, and seven years in the field, and a…
Jemel Roberson, age 26, was working as a security guard at Manny’s Blue Room bar in Robbins, Ill., when a drunken patron who he had been asked to leave earlier, returned with a gun. The patron shot four people. Roberson, who was armed at the time, returned fire, grabbed one…
Dallas Police reported an internal investigation is complete, and Officer Amber Guyger, who killed Botham Jean three weeks ago, has been fired. The Texas Rangers, who took over the criminal investigation, have not released any new information as Jean’s family attorneys said they are still committed to proving a murder…
At a town hall meeting where the community voiced concerns about why Amber Guyger is still employed and receiving pay, Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall said any further disciplinary action would compromise the ongoing investigation of Botham Jean’s death. Once the department is “assured, an administrative investigation will not impede…
Beto O’Rourke, the outspoken Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful, suggested at a rally on Friday that Amber Guyger should be fired from the Dallas Police Force. He also questioned why a black Dallas resident was shot by a police officer while in his apartment. The speech, a rousing, provocative indictment on…
NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch suggested Botham Jean might still be alive today if only he was “a law-abiding gun owner” and Philando Castile’s still-grieving mother, Valerie Castile, rightfully, went off. “You know, this could have been very different if Botham Jean had been, say, he was a law-abiding gun owner…
Botham Jean was buried one week to the day he was murdered by Dallas police officer, Amber Guyger. The devastation or the trauma the Jean family has been through losing their beloved son, brother, cousin, and nephew to a heinous murder by the very person paid to protect him is…
Thousands gathered Thursday afternoon to celebrate the life of Botham “Bo” Shem Jean in the sanctuary of Greenville Avenue Church of Christ in Richardson. But undertones of hurt, and a demand of justice for Jean, were present. Many spoke of Jean’s character and faith, and the family’s rearing of an…
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