Botham Jean was shot in his own home by an off duty Dallas cop who claimed she thought she was in her apartment but who told conflicting stories about how this supposedly happened.
This was sufficiently bizarre that the Dallas PD turned over the investigation to the Texas Rangers who dutifully tossed the victim’s apartment and leaked the tidbit that less than half an ounce of marijuana had been found to a local Fox affiliate who featured this non-issue in the above headline about the story…
DEVELOPING: Search warrant: Marijuana found in Botham Jean’s apartment after deadly shooting https://t.co/ISSGgxgt34 pic.twitter.com/iE6IsnNUUX
— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) September 13, 2018
To be fair to the Fox affiliate, after they put out the police disinformation, they later told the real story:
"Assassinate the character after they assassinate his person." Lawyers for Botham Jean's family say they are disgusted by the search warrant issued after Jean's shooting by the hands of a Dallas police officer. https://t.co/ISSGgxgt34 pic.twitter.com/sm6JE3kHvB
— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) September 13, 2018
“The lawyer for the family of the Dallas man fatally shot by a police officer in his own apartment says police are trying to discredit the victim.
Botham Shem Jean, 26, died on Sept. 6 after off-duty officer Amber Guyger walked into his apartment, allegedly thinking she was in hers (which is located one floor below) and shot him twice.
Attorney Lee Merritt, who represents Jean’s family, criticized the police’s search warrant, which was obtained in the hours following the shooting, as an attempt to discredit Jean after his death.
“They immediately began to smear him,” Merritt told The Associated Press.
According to a search warrant affidavit released on Thursday, police seized two fired cartridge casings, one laptop, a ballistic police vest, a backpack with police equipment and paperwork, two radio frequency identification keys, 10.4 grams of marijuana (equal to less than half an ounce) and a marijuana grinder, among other things, from Jean’s apartment.
Matt Schweich, deputy director of the policy reform group Marijuana Policy Project, questioned why officials haven’t released a search warrant for Guyger’s apartment.
“A small amount of personal marijuana is irrelevant to this tragedy. It’s as relevant as a six-pack of beer,” Schweich told HuffPost.”
NAACP President Cornell William Brooks tweeted this correct assessment of these events:
This is the postmortem character assassination of #BothamJean .
This character attack is like when Emmet Till was accused of leering at a White woman (who lied) to legitimate his lynching.
An after death marijuana possession charge does NOT legitimate a homicide. @nytimes https://t.co/Wk5P604nr0
— Cornell William Brooks (@CornellWBrooks) September 14, 2018
And about the second story the off duty cop, Amber Guyger, told about how she got into Botham’s apartment – that the door was “ajar” – we have this…
From another angle, here is a door closing in the same apartment building Botham Jean lived in.
When Dallas PD Officer Amber Guyger says his door was open, it's almost as if she thinks nobody else lives in that building and can demonstrate that the doors close automatically. pic.twitter.com/MRXvZG1pVr
— Shaun King (@shaunking) September 11, 2018
Welcome to America folks, where, if you are a black man, a cop can stumble into your apartment and shoot you dead for no reason, and her buds will toss your apartment looking, postmortem, for evidence of a misdemeanor violation of a BS law with which to smear your character and the local fake news outlet will propagandize for them.
What a country!
