Botham Jean’s Killing Demands Truth and Justice. A Key Witness Just Made That Harder

To all of the terrible turns in the killing of Botham Jean, we now must add another. Another foolish decision that risks injustice upon injustice.Jean, a black man sitting in his own apartment in the Cedars neighborhood of Dallas, was killed by a white police officer, Amber Guyger, who lived in the same complex and, somehow, bafflingly, thought Jean was in her apartment.Nothing could be more important for Dallas, and really for the country, than a fair trial -- for Jean and his family, for Guyger and for the people of this city.  Continue reading...