Mother raises race in officer’s shooting death of her son
DALLAS — The mother of a black man who was gunned down at his home by a white Dallas police officer who said she mistook his apartment for her own suggested that her son might still be alive if he were white.
Allison Jean, the mother of 26-year-old Botham Jean, wondered whether race was a factor when the officer shot and killed her son after she returned home in uniform from her shift on Thursday night.
“I didn’t know she was white until now. If it was a white man would it have been different? Would she have reacted differently?” Jean said in footage broadcast by Dallas’ NBC affiliate, KXAS.
Authorities have said the officer is white, but haven’t released her name or other details about her.
Dallas’ police chief, U.