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Your brothers and sisters, the last few days in Dallas have been a very interesting few days and this last week has been an interesting week within Dallas

with many discussions that involve

some serious theological components

as well as political components.

This idea of forgiveness versus justice,

this idea of accountability and the beautiful gesture

of the brother of both from John who was murdered

when he showed forgiveness for the murderer of his brother and what that means

in terms of justice and accountability and humanizing, I think, more so the family of a person who was wrongfully gunned down while he was sitting in his own home, sitting on his couch eating ice cream when an officer walked in and shot him dead twice or shot him twice to his death and

sparking the first conviction of a Dallas police officer since the 1970s where an officer played Russian roulette in the

mouth of a 12-year-old boy and blew his head off and got five years for that.

And this was the first time that we had a conviction, even though it was only for 10 years,

of any sort of recourse for that, not taking into consideration the hundreds of people that have been shot dead in the last five decades between those two cases.

And so,

there was the mother of Boatham-John and a mother that captures the sentiments of what you would expect in terms of pain from a mom who not only raised her child to be safe but to be successful and prosperous. And if you've

gotten a glimpse into the dynamics of that family you will know that that is a family

that was extremely protective of their children.

And somehow I just spent my last moments with her.

I just came from that where the family is going back to St Lucia,

and she told me something I didn't know because we talked

about the police shootings that happened in July 2016. She said that her son had actually moved here

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