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    • Darran Simon
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      Darran Simon is a senior writer with CNN Digital, where he covers national and international breaking news.

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    • September 19, 2019----- Botham Jean's mother, Allison Jean, photographed outside the Frank Crowley Courthouse in Dallas, Texas on Thursday, September 19, 2019. Botham Jean was shot by former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger while he was in his own apartment in Dallas, Texas. Guyger is charged with murder and the trial begins next week.

      How Botham Jean's mother is preparing to face the former police officer who killed her son

      By Darran Simon, CNN Edited by Braden Goyette, CNN Photographs by Allison V. Smith for CNN
      Seven months after an off-duty Dallas police officer shot Allison Jean's son, Botham, dead in his apartment, her attorney called with a warning: the 911 call capturing Botham's last moments was going to be played on the evening news.
    • When African Americans are killed by police, these lawyers get a phone call

      By Darran Simon, CNN Edited by Braden Goyette, CNN Photographs by John Nowak, CNN
      Civil rights attorney L. Chris Stewart was sitting in church in Atlanta on an April Sunday in 2015 when he received a Facebook message with a news article and a plea from a friend. A police officer had killed her cousin, Walter Scott, and she needed help.
    • Celina G. Richard, 69, of Opelousas, Louisiana, stands for a portrait outside of the remains of the Greater Union Baptist Church in Opelousas on April 10, 2019. Richard has been a member of the church for 53 years.

      Their church was burning. They linked arms and prayed

      By Darran Simon, CNN Video by Lacey Russell, CNN Photographs by Edmund D. Fountain for CNN
      Ronald Milburn smelled the smoke four miles away as he drove to Greater Union Baptist Church.