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- At first I didn't know how to process it.
And I think it's just
that I didn't want it to be true.
- My mind was going crazy trying to figure out
how my brother was shot.
- I remember getting a text.
It was just unbelievable.
Turned on the news
and it just took the wind out.
Here's a young man who,
was concerned about,
humanity.
A young man who gave
so much,
was extremely charitable,
and,
you know, he's,
he's not out,
in the wrong place at the wrong time.
He's at home.
You think,
"Lord, we're not safe anywhere."
As a former city manager,
I know,
the job of police officers
and I certainly have,
deference for
the work that they do.
Yet this is something that's not just
a one in a million chance
of lightning striking.
What can we do
to get America to understand
that
there are no white Botham Jeans in America?
(crowd chanting) No justice, no peace!
- Botham's death sparked
this whole social justice movement
throughout the United States
and throughout the world.
Because I believe,
being a black man
shot by a white police officer
under these bizarre circumstances
really gave people that interest
in seeing that case
right through
to its outcome.
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- No doubt in this case
that miss Guyger was given preferential treatment
over what an ordinary citizen would've received.
While miss Guyger is sitting
in the front seat of that squad car
something very unusual happens.
The dash cam is actually turned off.
- That's very troubling.
As a prosecutor, I want all the video,
all the evidence,
all the information that I can possibly have
involving a case that I'm investigating,
because you never know what might be there.
- We'll never know what happened
after the dash cam was shut off in that car.
The explanation was that
she was about to start having a conversation
with her attorney.
And so it would've been privileged information,
attorney client information.
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- Everything that was pent up in my system
for the entire year,
just exploded.
It was just this relief
that God had answered my prayers.
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After Botham's death,
one of the things that I always asked,
was that his name would never be forgotten.
- I co-authored Bo's law.
The Bill,
creates systemic accountability for policing
by requiring that police officers
cannot deactivate their body cams
during an investigation.
They must activate their body cam
at the beginning of an investigation
and it must remain on
throughout the investigation.
When we filed the Bill,
I asked Botham's mother, Allison Jean,
if she wanted a special number assigned to the Bill.
And she said, yes,
she wanted his birthday, September 29th.
HB 929,
affectionately named Bo's Law,
is now the law of the land in Texas,
which was a watershed moment,
because this is good for good police officers
and it helps to weed out the bad officers.
- People in law enforcement,
in the judiciary,
they are going to be calling his name
when making reference to that law.
I would love to see that the Botham Jean Act,
or Bo's Law,
goes national,
and that it does not remain
just in Dallas
or in Texas,
but it goes throughout the United States.
In that way,
Botham's name,
will never,
ever,
be forgotten.
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