dallas
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Botham Jean’s Family Will Sue Amber Guyger, City of Dallas
The family of Botham Jean, an unarmed black man who was shot and killed by an off-duty Dallas police officer after she intruded into his home, plans to sue the officer and the city of Dallas for his death. According to the Dallas Morning news, family attorney Lee Merritt said Allison and Bertrum Jean plan…
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Botham Jean Attorney: Nothing In Amber Guyger's Story Makes Sense
An attorney for Botham Jean—the 26-year-old innocent black man who was shot and killed inside his own home—is looking to set the record straight. Despite several stories that Jean and his attacker, Amber Guyger, knew one another, attorney S. Lee Meritt claims that the two were merely neighbors as Jean lived directly above Guyger. “The…
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Family, Mourners Remember the Life of Botham Shem Jean, Killed in His Own Home by a Dallas Cop
As the circumstances surrounding Botham Shem Jean’s shooting death remain cloudy, mourners gathered yesterday to pay tribute to the 26-year-old Caribbean native who was gunned down in his own home by a uniformed Dallas police officer on Thursday night. The cop, who remains unidentified, was off-duty at the time of the shooting, and claims she…
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Ex-Officer Who Killed 15-Year-Old Jordan Edwards Found Guilty of Murder
After two days of deliberations, jurors found Roy Oliver, the ex-Balch Springs, Texas cop who shot and killed Jordan Edwards, an unarmed 15-year-old boy, guilty of murder on Tuesday afternoon. The 38-year old Oliver was on trial for murder and two counts of aggravated assault by a public servant, reports DallasNews.com. He was found not…
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Family Sues American Airlines for Wrongful Death After 25-Year-Old Nurse Dies on Board
The family of a black South Carolina woman who died in April 2016 on a Dallas-bound American Airlines flight has filed a wrongful death suit against the airline. The parents of Brittany Oswell, who was only 25 at the time of her death, allege that the airline refused to divert the plane for an emergency…
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Erykah Badu Was Pulled Over in Dallas so Cop Could ‘Say Hi’
Erykah Badu’s new year certainly started off on an interesting note after she was pulled over by cops in Dallas for no reason other than that the officers wanted to “say hi.” The multitalented singer-songwriter posted a video to Instagram on New Year’s Eve captioned, “WTF BABYLON!! HAPPY NEW YEAREZZZZ!” In the video, Badu speaks…
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Everything Is Bigger in Texas, so of Course The Root’s Young, Fabulous and Female Event Slayed in Dallas
The Root’s Young, Fabulous and Female event has traveled all over the United States, hitting cities like Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City, Chicago and now, Dallas. Everything truly is bigger in Texas because the beautiful black women showed up and showed out. The Young, Fabulous and Female event is presented by Toyota (#ToyotaCHR)…
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Join The Root for Young, Fabulous and Female in Dallas to Break Some Rules and Take Some Cards
We love parties at The Root. Celebrating us as black people has become a feel-good embrace of self-love that stands up against the issues we face today. And when said party serves a greater purpose than clinking glasses and shaking (you knew where I was going), it becomes mandatory to attend. The Root’s Young, Fabulous…
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Man Brutally Beaten on Dallas Train After Asking a Group of Passengers to Stop Smoking Weed
A man was brutally attacked by a group of fellow passengers on a Dallas Area Rapid Transit train, apparently for simply asking the group to stop smoking weed on the train. The man, who has chosen to be identified only as “Kennan,” was left motionless, barely conscious, after the attack that started on a Green…
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Dallas Cop Faces Charges in Shooting Death of 21-Year-Old Woman
A Dallas police officer will face aggravated assault charges for firing into a moving car at least 13 times and killing a 21-year-old woman, authorities say. He will most likely face no consequences for taking this young woman’s life. Thirty-nine-year-old Dallas Police Officer Christopher Hess has been placed on administrative leave pending an internal-affairs investigation…