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New York Caribbean Institute Calls for Dallas Police officer who killed St. Lucian national in his own home to be charged with murder
BROOKLYN: BROOKLYN: The New York based Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) on Friday harshly condemned the killing of 26 year-old St. Lucian national and Dallas, Texas resident, Botham Shem Jean. Jean was shot and killed around 10:00 p.m Thursday night, September 6, 2018 in his own home, by a female Dallas police officer. The officer told investigators that she returned home from her shift and entered the wrong apartment in her building.
In a statement issued Friday, CGID President, Rickford Burke, said the officer’s negligent, reckless conduct and depraved indifference to human life resulted in murder. He consequently called on Dallas District Attorney Faith Johnson to prosecute the officer accordingly and to the fullest extent of the law.
Burke said “the culture of policing that has emerged in black communities all across America is one where cops shoot to kill first, then ask questions after.” He asserted that “Police officers are killing black men while walking innocently on the streets, driving innocently in our cars and now while living innocently in our own home. This is too much for a people to bear. CGID therefore calls on the US Justice Department to review and revise the protocols for armed engagement by law enforcement in America.”
Burke said “CGID intends to write our US Senators and Members of Congress from New York, to push for a national review and reform of protocols on how and when law enforcement officers engage in the use of force. This is long overdue. How many more black men must be killed before we take action?” Burke posited that “politicians who sit by and do nothing about the epidemic of law enforcement murders of innocent black men are equally complicit in these killings and should be held to account.”
Dallas police department Friday issued a statement claiming that the officer called for help and told responding officers “she entered the victim’s apartment believing that it was her own.” The incident took place at South Side Flats, an upscale apartment complex located in downtown, Dallas, a few blocks from Police headquarters.
Dallas Police said the officer was in full uniform and “fired her weapon striking the victim who was transported to hospital where he was pronounced dead. Burke blasted the Dallas Police for not releasing details about how the officer reached into Jean’s apartment and whether a breathalyzer was administered, as would have been the case with an ordinary citizen. He also questioned how Jean’s name was released to the public when Police simultaneously confirmed that the next of kin notification was not made.
The CGID head said the officer’s story is inexplicable and implausible. Emphasizing that Caribbean community believes the officer’s account strains credulity, Burke questioned its veracity saying “if she went to the wrong apartment how did she make initial contact with Mr. Jean? How do you mistakenly shoot your neighbor who you see and presumably interact with regularly, without recognizing him? “The Dallas Police chief expressly stated that her department is no longer pursuing a “police involved shooting investigation,” but is seeking a warrant pursuant to a manslaughter investigation. Clearly the police evidence suggests that this is not an accident and that the officer’s account contradicts the evidence. Hence, in the interest of transparency CGID calls on the Dallas Police Department to stop disseminating misinformation and disclosed the facts and circumstances of Mr. Jean’s death forthwith, lest it is viewed as concealment,” Burke contended.
the US to study accounting at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas. He also studied at the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College, in Castries, St. Lucia before migrating to the US. At the time of his death, he worked in Dallas as a risk assurance associate for accounting firm Price Waterhouse Coopers.
CGID Has called on all Caribbean American organizations and nationals to condemn Jean’s killing and to support and express solidarity with his family.
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687 responses to “Dallas Police Officer Murders St. Lucian”
If Europeans treat albinism differently, then the follow up question would be why!!!
Just remember, my go(o)dly friend, that your ‘legendary’ Moses was an Egyptian and not a European and his monotheistic god Yahweh was none other than Amun-Ra.
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… and Abraham??
Timelines!!
You could also ask how did Ur influence Egypt … and Europe?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur
…. and in the specific case of albinism, explain any differences that may be present.
I would suggest that monotheism was brought to Egypt when Joseph was sold as a slave!!
Check and see how many pharaohs followed Joseph’s arrival before one chose monotheism.
… and look at what happened after that Pharoah’s death, it was expunged and things went back to normal.
The Daily Mail pictures from crime scence
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6166385/Tragic-scenes-inside-apartment-white-cop-shot-dead-black-neighbor.html
@Peter, re 12:02 PM and The Dallas news media is finally catching up to BU:“Murder charge, not manslaughter, best fits Botham Jean case because Dallas officer intended to shoot, experts say”
I absolutely do not understand the sense of that statement. Are they saying that all such cases on police shootings of unarmed, non threatening citizens are charged as murder?… because WHENEVER you aim a gun (particularly a cop) at anyone you intend to SHOOT….not so!.
BTW I wondered if you saw them ore perplexing case of ‘white privilege’ in the media recently. A female Caucasian teacher who plead guilty at trial to repeated trysts of oral sex with her 14 year old student was not given any jail time by the judge just 10 year probation and allowed to retain her teaching certificate.
She does have to register as a sex offender tho so not sure how she will continue to use that teaching certificate as she can’t go near a school or kids…maybe adult education she will teach then perhaps!!!…… But here is your kicker…her husband (maybe former now) is an officer in a county Sheriff’s Office!
But that was in NY not in de ole boy south lke Texas…
… some years back there as was a lad (in Georgia) who also went south orally on a lass but he was SENT to jail for those 10 years…in his case it just happened that he was Black. She was not …and she was a minor…the fact that she was a high-schooler like him and that she essentially consented was irrelevant. His life was ruined.
This judgement like that in the Brock Turner case boogles the mind.
So yea your ‘white privilege’ is alive and well set!
dPd perhaps the judiciary are the main offenders? They certainly seem unhappy to just interpret law, preferring to invent it.
Well what do you know, we know the wicked murdering Ho was lying..
“EXCLUSIVE: Video showing how heavy metal fire doors automatically slam shut in building where white Dallas cop shot her black neighbor and apartment numbers are lit up in NEON contradict her story.”
wicked and evil..she went there specifically to his floor to murder him and should get the death penalty..
“Apartment door numbers are also clearly visible and lit up in neon”
“Further, as a second DailyMail.com video shows, officer Amber Guyger could not have used her key to force open the door of Botham Jean, whose funeral was held today, despite claiming to have done so in her statement to Texas Rangers.
At the very least she would have been warned that she was at the wrong door because the unique electronically coded keys used in the South Side Flats building flash red if inserted in the wrong door.”
LowIQ45…you should share a needle with that evil killer.
“I absolutely do not understand the sense of that statement. Are they saying that all such cases on police shootings of unarmed, non threatening citizens are charged as murder?”
Yes, it is clear that you do not understand. The comment was for a specific case and not a general statement. 🙂
That skank took the lady’s beautiful son and murdered him, death penalty for her..
Skank? that would be you, Wot A Racist Udder I Is.
Skank would be you and the lowlife killer ya think you can use BU to protect and use as an excuse to abuse others…lowIQ45..
When the charges are upgraded to murder, you can try reversing them.
What happened WARU, that nasty whitey of a husband you claim to got bin whuppin’ yore sorry black ass again?
Den get back in de kichin and do yore chores, ho.
PS – for the benefit of sentient readers of this blog, I agree that Guyger should get the death penalty if she is guilty – guilty at trial, not by lynch-mob, which WARU wants.
I wonder if the local gentry will be as worried about the police officer that was just killed in fort worth
45…..Waru got everything she wanted in that guy…..a closed mouth and an open wallet
Lawson, not to mention bad eyesight and a lobotomy.
Well really!
Re the Fort Worth killing, the perp one Dacion Steptoe (WTF do they get these names?) is mercifully no longer with us so the taxpayers will be saved a lot of hard-earned.
When you show concern for the innocent St. Lucian gunned down by the police officer we will show concern for the police officer gunned down by whoever it was. The police officer has MORE THAN ENOUGH people and a WHOLE DAMN SYSTEM that will show great concern for him.
While the police officer who killed the St. Lucian is still alive and has a whole system routing for her just like that Shelby police woman.
You are not too bright Donna, are you? Try reading my comments before jumping to conclusions that suit your prejudices.
Still attacking my IQ I see. Let me say this. When I chose to exert myself there was not a white girl in my QC class who could consistently beat me. In my day the class was half white. So if I am dumb, most of wuhnuh dumber.
“When I chose to exert myself”. I take it that that was a rare occurrence, because you are hopeless at comprehension.
@45
Are you related to an attack dog?
So let me get this straight – your continued insults regarding my “intelligence level” are NOT the perpetuation of the racial stereotyping of blacks as low IQ?
Just as Lawson’s references to peanut butter and stripper poles are not, I suppose.
PS. Maybe YOU should read My posts and see that I HAVE NOT attacked your intelligence, just what I perceive as your prejudice.
You are not worthy of engagement. You may have the last word.
Gazerts,
He is just angry because he can no longer use the whip. He has to come on here pretending, as most of them do, that they are not racists, while consoling themselves with dog whistles. They get into a rage when we COMPREHEND. You see, we are supposed to call their shit chocolate and eat it.
As Bushie would say – NOT STINKING DONNA!!!!!!
Are you girls quite OK?
I have noticed that the new way of attempting to keep blacks down is to lull them into a false sense of security.
“We are not racists. What racism are you talking about? You are overreacting. Racism has nothing to do with it. We are all equal. (BUT some are more equal than others.) I’ve got black friends. Or the BU classic – why would I waste time coming on here trying to improve you if I didn’t wish to see you succeed? ” (Paraphrased)
Some weak-minded blacks still fall for it. They want to cozy up to the white man – be part of the accepted ones.
BUT NOT STINKING DONNA!
De attack dog get he teet pull!
Donna, tell us why are you STINKING, no standpipes handy, or are you in Worthing?
@ Donna
Give the people a break nuh…
How would YOU react if some stinking bushman explained that your much vaunted ‘whiteness’ was really just the result of a biological malfunction – one of the manifestations of albinism?
While this is just a FACT of nature, it has major implications for any feelings of superiority that may have been engendered over a lifetime in an upsided-down world – where good is evil, rich is poor, high is low and black is white….
Our BU antagonists are well meaning, but are constrained by a lifetime of misinformation that now needs to be expunged here on BU….
That is what whackers are for…..
LOL
ha ha ha
@BushTea all that may be true at 9:15 but simply stated is there any wonder of the number of shooting incidents – police- and generally when one sees here daily the blunt nonsense of blogger 1 baiting blogger 2 and 3 and everyone snarking back with passion…oh lordie.
If Bajans had the exposure to guns as some Americans do then obviously on this BU evidence there would be lots of locals in the QEH morgue too.
That lifetime of misinformation to which we are constrained coupled with our big egos, inlaid bigotry and combustible tempers cause too many tragic assaults ..verbal and physical!
That said…why do we continue to react to @45 or 6of9 or any others’ quite silly personal attacks…he obviously has fun doing his thing baiting bloggers.
How would YOU react if some stinking bushman explained that your much vaunted ‘whiteness’ was really just the result of a biological malfunction – one of the manifestations of albinism?
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You might be surprised to find that nobody gives a damn!!
… plus, most people are not poorly educated and can think for themselves!!
So really, you don’t need to do squat.
Throw away your whacker and get a real wacker!!!!
Here are the top 6 for 2018.
With your preference for fine twine over steel, any one of these should be adequate for you.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/tools/reviews/g145/the-best-new-string-trimmers-comparison-test/
I know why I react. I’m having as much fun as they are. I have no wish to shoot anybody. Silly racists don’t raise my blood pressure. I find their predictability quite amusing. If you check one earlier post I said they reminded me of the hilarious British comedy “Love thy Neighbour.” I found it on Youtube and watched it for the rest of the day. It was still hilarious.
Why do YOU react?
I live in Barbados. If I lived where you live I guess I would not have the luxury of finding racists silly rather than frightening.
@ John September 15, 2018 9:53 AM
“How would YOU react if some stinking bushman explained that your much vaunted ‘whiteness’ was really just the result of a biological malfunction – one of the manifestations of albinism?
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You might be surprised to find that nobody gives a damn!!
… plus, most people are not poorly educated and can think for themselves!!
So really, you don’t need to do squat.”
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If most people can think for themselves, then why do you persist with your Quaker nonsense about the beneficence of a white man’s god whom blacks must worship because he rescued them from Islamic slavery by sending them into benign chattel slavery in the West which allowed them to breed like monkeys to work on the plantations?
Why not encourage the so-called educated (black) people who live on Pachamama to adore the God who gave them their high melanin skin content in order to worship Him directly instead of having to travel thousands of air miles to have a tan?
We know (scientifically) that albinism is a quirk of Mother Nature which can even be found among gorillas. So why not among members of the other primates like the bonobos and so-called humans?
If the existe
nce of the white race is not as a result of a biological quirk in the evolutionary wheel how then do you account for their existence whose lifespan is drawing close is a fast warming world?
Is the white race a direct descendant of Noah? And if so, which son? ‘Clearly’ not Ham?
If we use your Judeo-Christian version of Creation (a story you finally admitted was stolen from the Sumerian civilization aka land of Ur) then it is biologically and environmentally impossible for Adam and Eve to be white and living stark naked in a garden of eternal sunshine.
We know (scientifically) that albinism is a quirk of Mother Nature which can even be found among gorillas.
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…. and zebras too!!
Is the white race a direct descendant of Noah? And if so, which son? ‘Clearly’ not Ham?
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You can’t have distinct races springing from one ancestor!!
There is only one race, the human race!!
… ok, so the rat race too!!!
@John September 15, 2018 11:59 AM
“You can’t have distinct races springing from one ancestor!!
There is only one race, the human race!!”
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Eureka!!
So you have finally decided to throw both the Cain & Abel myth and the Noah story overboard?
Has your ‘intellectual’ conscience been pricked by the Sumerian stories and their ‘fear of aliens’?
Good for you!!
Now let’s focus on the ‘evolutionary’ primate called ‘man’.
The primates and hominoids which the anthropologists get all bent out of shape with are numbered among the “living creatures” God created before he created man.
God’s creation of man is separate and distinct.
There is no link!!!
The anthropologists are wasting their time looking for one!
You need to find some authority which says primates were created from the dust, God breathed life into them and they became living souls!!
King James Bible
“And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
If you want to go through the genetics of man just look for Zoe’s contribution on BU!!
Read, learn and inwardly digest and see if that helps.
Poor Donna of course white girls would not consistently beat you…what century are you living in, or is this a dog whistle to the base you are only beaten by whites sometimes. I love peanut butter one of the great inventions by george washington carver, belle jangles was first to use stripper pole in 1968 another one of your inventions that I have paid attention to over the years . Dont go over the pond watch its always sunny in Philadelphia for a hilarious show
“PS – for the benefit of sentient readers of this blog, I agree that Guyger should get the death penalty if she is guilty – guilty at trial”
LowIQ45..ya lie..I told you if it was a black female officer had done the same thing to a white dude… I too would wonder what the hell she was doing in the man’s apartment and ya told me I lied..so you are lying now, not the way you attacked when we told you the Ho murdered the young man…..
Lawson…ah know ya addicted to strippers and pole dancing, that is why I will set up a pole for you right in MoneyBs front yard in swanky Rosedale…ah know you and lowIQ45. jealous of my husband but that will get neither of you anywhere…
BTW….the two of you should see how many whiteys are getting their asses whopped in the US for provoking black people…why yall don’t provoke the black population in Barbados to test out if they are still docile and slaveminded…ah dare ya..
Lawson..try it on ya next trip to Barbados next year..
@ John September 15, 2018 12:52 PM
It seems that you, like Zoe, are just another white noise johnnie who believes the planet (and for the matter the entire universe) is just about 10,000 years old.
If you believe a human male can sire children at the young age of 100 and a human female at the virginal age of 90 how, then, can any anthropologist convince a rabbit like you that the planet is millions of years older?
So let ‘us’ see if we can put back you into your intellectual rabbit hole by asking if you believe that a polar bear and a kangaroo were also in Noah’s little boat as depicted in the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh.
Why don’t you “read learn and inwardly digest” the ‘copied’ Sumerian / Babylonian tablets or cylinders and you might just find too much of a striking similarity between your man-creating god(s) and the Sumerian counterparts Anu and Anki:
The day you can show the BU household where they can find ‘white’ dirt to make a European man then we will show you the black ball that shot Lord Nelson:
“In the clay, god and man
Shall be bound,
To a unity brought together;
So that to the end of days
The Flesh and the Soul
Which in a god have ripened –
That soul in a blood-kinship be bound.”
MTA
You believe you are a glorified primate, I believe I am a human.
We both can claim to have had our first forebearers created by God, you and me.
The difference in our beliefs is that you believe your forebearers were created by God a day or so before mine.
The other ting we share is that we will both certainly die!!
“Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods”