At Rest

Deadly force
According to DPD, Officer Michael Tayem told Pabis, drunk, to turn down his music and stop throwing chairs and bottles from the balcony of his second-storey apartment. Pabis refused. Officer Tayem tried to arrest Pabis. Pabis, unarmed, attacked him. Officer Tayem fatally shot Pabis. According to The Dallas Morning News, Police Chief David Kunkle fired Tayem in September 2006.
This record exists so that Jason Verne Pabis, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
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