Miss Alabama gets suspended from Miami TV station after recording video outside her local church calling Dallas cop killer a ‘martyr’ and saying she ‘doesn’t feel sad for the officers who lost their lives’
Kalyn Chapman James recorded two-minute clip in her car outside church
Admitted that she felt little towards the officers killed by Micah Johnson
Stressed her heart was with victims Alton Sterling and Philando Castile
First black Miss Alabama now suspended from TV hosting job in Miami
She now says her comments were taken out of context and that she has received a call from a wife of a Dallas cop who said she ‘understood’
By EUAN MCLELLAND
DailyMail.com
12 July 2016
The first black Miss Alabama has been suspended from her job at a Miami TV station after calling the Dallas cop sniper ‘a martyr’.
Kalyn Chapman James, who hosts weekly art program the Art Loft on WPBT2, recorded a two-minute long Facebook clip in her car outside her local church while struggling to hold back tears.
In it the 1993 Miss Alabama admitted that she felt little towards the five officers killed when Micah Johnson opened fire during a rally in the Texas city last week.
Despite conceding that she did not want to agree with her natural feelings, Mrs James stressed that her heart was with both Johnson and the two black Americans killed by police officers in shootings that sparked the Dallas riots – Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.
The married former beauty queen said: ‘I don’t feel sad for the officers who lost their lives and I know that’s not really my heart.
‘I value human life. And I want to feel sad for them but I can’t help but feeling like the shooter was a martyr.
‘I don’t want to feel this way and I know it’s not the right way to feel because nobody deserves to lose their lives.
But I’m sick of this.’
‘I can’t stop replaying the image of these men being killed in my mind and my heart weeps.’
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