On November 11, 2018, Jemel Roberson, a 26-year-old African American security guard for Manny’s Blue Room Bar in Robbins, Illinois was fatally shot by Ian Covey, a Midlothian police officer responding to a call of shots fired at the bar. Roberson was working for the bar as a security guard when four people were non-fatally shot by a gunman. After Roberson subdued and pinned the shooter to the …

