In the wee hours of November 11 inside Manny’s Blue Room Bar located in the Chicago suburb of Robbins, armed security guard Jemel Roberson broke up a ruckus caused by unruly patrons — only to find himself in a shootout when the group returned and someone opened fire.
The 26-year-old returned fire and successfully disarmed and detained one of the men — only for responding Midlothian police officers to gun him down.
“He had somebody on the ground with his knee in back, with his gun in his back like, ‘Don’t move,'” witness Adam Harris told WGN following the shootings. “Everybody was screaming out, ‘Security!’ He was a security guard…And they still did their job, and saw a black man with a gun, and basically killed him.”
An investigation has since been launched. Information about the bar’s expired liquor license has been uncovered while police have neglected to identify the officer who killed Roberson.
“A Midlothian officer encountered a subject with a gun and was involved in an officer-involved shooting. The subject the officer shot was later pronounced deceased at an area hospital,” Midlothian Police Chief Daniel Delaney said in a statement following the fatal incident.
Details of Roberson’s life have also been uncovered. He not only aspired to be a police officer himself but was also actually working the security detail in order to splurge for his 9-month-old son’s first Christmas. (He also left behind an unborn child.)
“A family member called me and told me. … I just broke down crying in the bathroom. For a long time, I was in the bathroom,” Roberson’s girlfriend Avontae Boose told CNN adding, “[their son] just been calling (for) his dad.”
Immediately after the tragic scenario, a GoFundMe account was established to help pay for Roberson’s funeral expenses and the news graced across fellow Chicagoan Kanye West’s radar.
According to TMZ, a “deeply moved” West donated $150,000 to Roberson’s family on Friday (November 16), which far exceeded the GoFundMe’s initial request of $10,000.
As for seeking justice and clarity revolving around Roberson’s death, it’s unsurprising the cops and family are adhering to two different accounts of events.
The Illinois State Police released a statement which read, “According to witness statements, the Midlothian Officer gave the armed subject multiple verbal commands to drop the gun and get on the ground before ultimately discharging his weapon and striking” while confirmed witness Dorian Myrickes say the officer who killed Roberson didn’t wait “not even five seconds” after giving the command.
Roberson family attorney Lee Merritt disagreed stating, “If this was a case where they saw this as a friendly fire, as if a police officer was shot, then this would be handled much differently. There would be more transparency.”
Roberson’s mother, Beatrice Roberson, has since filed a $1 million lawsuit against the police officer responsible for her son’s death and the Village of Midlothian, calling the shooting “unprovoked, unjustified, excessive and unreasonable.”
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If the guard was white, we wouldn’t even hear he was killed. #Facks
If the guard was white, he wouldn’t have been killed. Corrected that for you #Facts
No, he would have been killed as well, young Dindu. The cops shoot more unarmed white folks than anyone else in this country by populous percentage or overall numbers. If you factor in how many blacks commit crimes as to their population percentile, they are actually shot LESS than whites wether armed or unarmed. Those are just numbers put forth by the FBI and the ACLU. Then again, if numbers and FACTS were your thing, you wouldn’t be making a fool of yourself and furthering this bullshit, Dindu, reverse racism, prison filling bullshit. Another beta cuck soy milk breath whiteboy trying to be friends with black people, instead of just seeing everyone as people. You should feel sad for your existence.
The discrepancy can be accounted for by the respective sample sizes, socio-economic factors that lead to crime, and the inherent racial bias of the justice system.
There can only be “inherent” racial bias if you believe that certain races “inherently” commit more crime. There may be racial bias in outcome, but nothing about how the system is set up leads to an automatic targeting of some races over others. I will grant that if we are talking about rich versus poor, the system does favor rich people because they can afford better lawyers and pay fines that poor people can’t, and take off work to make it to court dates, etc. But there is nothing about how the system is set up that automatically causes a racial disparity of outcome. Trailer park white kids do not have advantages over project black kids or vice versa. It is a socioeconomic issue more than a racial one, and we can’t fix the problem until we properly identify it.
Because he probably wouldn’t have been killed. Bias makes you make rash decisions in high pressure situations.
That’s whats up.
I have seen this all over, specially SJW sites like Reddit. What happened was messed up yes I agree and the family need to sue the police. Come on though would anyone care or the news be reporting it so much if the guy was white? Really sick of this reverse racisim by the media and celebs.
Is a good thing
But fuck Kanye West
And that bitch Candace owen And her wannabe Carlton Bank
Blexit my ass
Yeah. Being democrats has definitely helped the black populous of te U.S. over the last 100 years (sarcasm).
Plot twist: The cops responsible for the death of this black man were also black. Howbowdah?
I like to drop gems every now and again here’s another one. This is whats fucked up about the U.S.A.and y’all allow this shit to happen. You have in a spout of a week a man going to a synagogue a kills 12 people, a man that goes into a grocery store and kills 2 people, and another who mailed out a bunch of pipe bombs that all managed to see the next day. Why wasn’t there a shoot to kill in order for them. Why is there always a shoot to kill for black people? This shit happens so much its to the point where y’all don’t even care anymore, its like that song that gets played on the radio too much, you quickly switch to the next station.
Wow. So you’re NOT from america, or here at the present, and you’re saying what is happening and what happens all of the time? You’re fucking retarded. Dumbass. There is no “shoot to kill” order for black people. For all we know, the cop who shot him was black. Did you know that 65% of our prisons are filled with African Americans? They are 15% of our population. The reason this is happening is because of forced plea bargains, and mandatory minimu sentencing. Cops obviously are weary of the demographic that commits the most crime, and mothers off to them when they are in the wrong. You obviously like Hip-Hop, so why are you on here? Did Pac or Biggie sound like upstanding citizens that cops shouldn’t be weary of when pulling them over? Please go fuck yourself and listen to whatever garbage ass bagpipe music your country produces. Jackass
you just assume all the cops were white..
Only in the great USA does a Civilian come to a bar with a gun and the security guard has a gun and the cops show up with two armed people shooting it out with each other….of course they are gonna end up shooting someone. America does this to itself. This doesn’t happen any where else in the world.
I’m guessing you’ve never been to a bar in any of the former Soviet states, Africa or Mexico. Dumbass. I was working for an NPO in Uganda and most of the patrons of the local bar would walk in without AKs. This happens all over, the media doesn’t give a shit, much like you with your ignorance. Dipshit.
Very sad story but the race baiting is getting annoying. You think cops never unload on white people? Look up Daniel Shaver, you can see the entire video of him begging for his life while the cops give him instructions that he should not have been expected to follow in his drunken state, so they shoot him dead in a hotel hallway, and he was a white guy.
This whole twice baiting, self segregating, everyone is against everyone bullshit the media pushes sure is working on all the SJW morons. No one even knows if the cop was black or not and they’re talking shit. Does it somehow matter if the guy shot was black, if he was innocent? Did he comply with police orders? Is there a video of what happened? According to multiple witnesses the cop gave dude several warnings to put down the gun and get on the ground. Any person who isn’t a complete fucktard does what someone pointing a gun at them says. Specially a cop. I bet he kept saying “I’m a security guard, this guy is the perpetrator” etc, instead of just dropping the gun and laying down. Do people really believe that any cop in america is just going to execute a black man in the right for no reason in front of witnesses with cel phones in today’s climate? GTFOH
Cops shot the kid! SMH sad
Another picture of this dude looking miserable.
Kanye looks like one stung out, stressed out zombie of a shell. Please don’t tell us what he does or is doing. His Black card is revoked. I’m not giving him credit for a damn thing and wish the hell he would take a page from howard hughes’ playbook and retire from society. Do us all a favor for the love of Jesus.