Jemel Roberson

How they died

Deadly force

After security asked a group of drunken men to leave Manny's Blue Room Bar around 4 a.m., someone came back with a gun and opened fire. Security returned fire, and armed security guard Jemel Roberson restrained one of the men involved outside. A responding officer shot and killed Roberson, according to witnesses, despite being told he was a security guard. The Roberson family has filed a wrongful death civil suit.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Jemel Roberson, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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