Being a Good Guy With a Gun While Black

Officer shoots, kills armed security guard outside south suburban bar

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Witnesses said a Midlothian police officer responding to a shooting inside a south suburban bar shot and killed the wrong person early Sunday morning. After security asked a group of drunken men to leave Manny’s Blue Room Bar around 4 a.m. Sunday, witnesses said someone came back with a gun and opened fire. Security returned fire, and according to witnesses, 26-year-old armed security guard Jemel Roberson apprehended one of the men involved outside. "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, 'He was a security guard,'" Harris said. "And they basically saw a black man with a gun and killed him."