Friends and family are attending a funeral for a security guard who was fatally shot by a suburban Chicago police officer outside the bar where he worked.
Witnesses say Jemel Roberson was fatally shot on Nov. 11 while holding a man at gunpoint who’d been involved in an earlier shooting at the bar in Robbins, just south of Chicago.
Some witnesses say Roberson was wearing a hat emblazoned with the word “Security.” Roberson, who was Black, was shot by a White officer from nearby Midlothian who was responding to the initial shooting.
WGN-TV reports that some mourners attending the Saturday funeral wore shirts reading “Security” and “(hash) JusticeforJemel.” Others wore security uniforms.
Friends say the 26-year-old Roberson was a father and had wanted to become a Chicago police officer.
