In her new book “After Botham: Healing from my Brother’s Murder by a Police Officer,” Allisa Charles-Findley writes about the shock that swept her life when...
In her book, which came out this week, Charles-Findley details how people — especially at her church — often neglected to ask how she was doing, instead focusing on her mother, Allison, or little brother Brandt. She wrote about how activists and politicians appeared to try to benefit from her brother’s murder, and the unfair criticism she said Brandt faced
One day I took my boys to school and I just drove myself to my doctor and I sat in her office and I just cried for a good 10 minutes before I could even get words out. She said you need to be on a regimen where you’re seeing a talk therapist, you’re seeing a psychiatrist, you’re seeing a medical doctor to get well.
I’m still looking for closure because it still doesn’t sit right with me what happened to Botham. So I would like to hear it from the only living person who was there in that room and that’s her.Street in front of Dallas police headquarters renamed Botham Jean Boulevard in emotional ceremony At one point in the book, you put yourself into the lives of other people of color killed by police — George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Amir Locke, Atatiana Jefferson. Has there been progress made in the years since Guyger murdered Botham?We haven’t had significant progress. I like to always focus on the positive. Like we had the executive order signed by the president — executive order on policing. I attended that signing, but I still don’t want to be naive.
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