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Dallas Cop Who Killed Botham Shem Jean After Intruding into His Home Identified [Updated]
Dallas Police identified the off-duty, uniformed police officer who shot and killed a black man in his own apartment as Amber Guyger, a four-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department. Guyger claims that she mistook Botham Jean’s South Side Flats unit for her own. On Saturday, prominent civil rights attorneys Ben Crump and Dallas-based Lee…
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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…