Botham Jean's death 'a form of lynching,' Dallas storyteller says at racial healing event
Within a minute of Jeremy Bonner stepping into the spotlight at Moody Performance Hall on Tuesday evening, most of the crowd was swaying, clapping and singing along to the last song Botham Jean led at Sunday worship, "Let it Rise."
He then pointed his fingers into the shape of handgun and cut off the crowd with the sound of the two bullets that Amber Guyger, an off-duty Dallas police officer, fired at Jean in his apartment in September.
Bonner said he needed everyone to appreciate how abruptly Jean's life had been cut short before he shared his memories of his friend.
In the current edition of the Dallas storytelling series Oral Fixation — "Freedman's Town to Botham Jean: Stories for Racial Healing" — director Njoki McElroy wanted to ensure that the audience recognized the seven stories' common theme.
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