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Police Fatally Shoot Black Security Guard Who Detained Suspected Shooter

A police officer arriving on the scene shot and killed Jemel Roberson, a uniformed security guard who had detained a suspect after a shooting in a suburban Chicago bar.

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This is unbelievable. Jemel Roberson was stopping an active shooter situation and the police shoot him?

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On November 11, 26-year-old security guard Jemel Roberson “apprehended an alleged gunman” outside an Illinois bar, holding him on the ground at gunpoint until police arrived. According to witnesses, bar patrons were yelling to officers that Roberson was security, while officers demanded he drop his firearm before fatally shooting him.

The NRA and its media outlet have long peddled the narrative that the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun and they have frequently suggested that the victims of mass shootings could have saved themselves had they been armed. The police shooting of Jemel Roberson provides further proof that their “good guy with a gun” myth is just that: a myth.

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Jemel Roberson, 26, was a church musician and a security guard at Manny’s Blue Room Bar in Robbins, Ill. The young man, who wanted to become a police officer, was also the proverbial “good guy with a gun” when a man allegedly opened fire at the bar. WGN 9 reports that security asked a group of drunken men to leave the bar around 4 a.m. Sunday and one of them came back in with a gun and opened fire. Roberson, who had a valid FOID card (Firearm Owners Identification) and was armed, apprehended one of the men involved in the scene outside. A witness, Adam Harris, told the outlet, “He had somebody on the ground with his knee in [his] back, with his gun in his back like, ‘Don’t move.'” According to witnesses, when Midlothian police officers arrived at the scene, an officer fired at Roberson, which killed him. According to Roberson’s aunt, police shot him five times. Pastor LeAundre Hill said Roberson had just played at the pastor’s grandmother’s funeral on Friday, “and now he is gone.” “Everybody was screaming out, ‘Security!’ He was a security guard,” Harris said. “And they still did their job, and saw a black man with a gun, and basically killed him.” Such a statement has been repeated on social media, with many users wondering if the “good guy with a gun” rhetoric only applies to white people.

'Good guy with a gun thing only works if the good guy is not black': Police kill security guard who was trying to break up bar brawl

Gee, I don’t know, is water wet?

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Police officer shoots and kills good guy with a gun

Jemel Roberson was a 26-year-old armed security guard who apprehended a shooter. He was also black

“Roberson was both an armed security guard and a good guy with a gun. He risked his life to apprehend a shooter. And police killed him anyway.“

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Officer shoots, kills armed security guard outside south suburban bar

ROBBINS, Ill. — Witnesses said a Midlothian police officer responding to a shooting inside a south suburban bar shot at the wrong person early Sunday morning.

Earlier this month, security at a bar in Robbins, Illinois, ejected a group of drunken men. At least some of them returned shortly thereafter. One of them was armed. He opened fire, wounding multiple people.

26-year-old Jemel Roberson was a security guard at the bar. He was “wearing clothing that identified him as a security guard”; he was also legally armed, possessing a valid Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) card and “licensed by the state to work armed security.” Roberson managed to apprehend the gunman outside the bar, holding him there at gunpoint while waiting for the police to arrive.

By the way, Roberson was African-American. So you’ll never guess what happened next.

“‘He had somebody on the ground with his knee in back, with his gun in his back like, “Don’t move,”’ witness Adam Harris said. Soon after, witnesses said, an officer responding to the scene fired at Roberson — killing him. ‘Everybody was screaming out, “Security!” He was a security guard,’ Harris said. ‘And they still did their job, and saw a black man with a gun, and basically killed him.’”

The police–who originally identified Roberson only as “a subject with a gun”–claim he was wearing “plain black clothing with no markings readily identifying him as a Security Guard.” This contradicts eyewitnesses, who say he “was wearing a hat emblazoned with the word ‘security’ when he was shot.” The police also claim Roberson ignored “multiple verbal commands to drop the gun and get on the ground” before they killed him. This also contradicts eyewitness. The police have not addressed the multiple reports of witnesses identifying Roberson as security. And despite the presence of “security cameras inside and outside the bar,” the police have refused to disclose whether video of the shooting from surveillance or bodycams exists.

Oh, and did I mention that the officer who shot Roberson dead happens to be white? Surprise, surprise.