Fort Worth cop shoots to death black woman in her own home A wellness check proves to be fatal by Frederick H. Lowe BlackmansStreet.Today A Fort Worth, Texas, police officer dispatched to a home for a wellness check shot and killed the occupant. The cop, who has not been named, fired a fatal shot around 2:20 a.m. through a window[Read More…]
Black men comprise only 2 percent of the nearly 2 million public school teachers, according to Call Me Mr., an organization that wants to get more black men in front of the classroom. In 1954, there were 82,000 black teachers in American public schools. In the decade following the Brown v. Board of Education decision, nearly 40,000 black teachers and[Read More…]
Police claim Brown was murdered during a botched drug deal By Frederick H. Lowe BlackmansStreet.Today The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund is pushing for an independent investigation into the murder of Joshua Brown, a key witness in the recent trial of Amber Guyger, a former Dallas cop, who shot to death Botham Jean and was sentenced to 10 years[Read More…]
Joshua Brown feared his testimony could lead to his murder Elected officials demand police find his killer or killers By Frederick H. Lowe BlackmansStreet.Today Botham Jean’s neighbor who testified courageously and tearfully as a prosecution witness in the murder trial of former Dallas cop Amber Guyger, was found shot dead Friday night in Dallas. Joshua Brown, who lived[Read More…]
By Frederick H. Lowe BlackmansStreet.Today I haven’t been able to sleep well at night since the outcome of the murder trial of former Dallas cop Amber Guyger, who shot to death Botham Jean. My wife is worried. The trial ended last week. The 12-person jury sentenced Guyger to 10 years in prison for the September 6, 2018, murder[Read More…]
The victim’s brother and the judge hugged the killer. Her racist comments about blacks don’t seem to matter to them By Frederick H. Lowe BlackmansStreet.Today Former Dallas cop Amber Guyger was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday for the 2018 murder of Botham Shem Jean, a sentence that was much shorter than prosecutors sought. Some[Read More…]
But Sacramento cops walk after murdering an unarmed black man A jury on Tuesday found former Dallas Police officer Amber Guyger guilty of murder in the 2018 shooting death of Botham Jean, a black man, in his own apartment. Guyger, still wearing her uniform, mistakenly entered Jean’s home in the same apartment complex and immediately assumed he was a burglar.[Read More…]
