Chronicles Of A Chronic Caribbean Chronicler By Earl Bousquet
Monday, March 29, 2021is indelibly inscribed in history as the day Lamar Avenue (in Dallas, Texas) was renamed Botham Jean Boulevard in honor and living memory of the 26-year-old young Black, Bright and Energetic Saint Lucia-born Caribbean immigrant killed in September 2018 while eating ice cream and watching TV in his own apartment, by a White police officer who claimed she mistook his apartment for hers.
It was also the day the trial started in Minneapolis of Derek Chauvin, a White police officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes and snuffed his life out on May 25, 2020 despite him repeatedly crying out ‘I can’t breathe!’