Miss Brown,
Your grief is noted. No one should have to die by being shot, however, this was a choice that your brother made when he committed crimes, sold drugs, went to prison, then didn't change his behavior after being released from prison. He made the choice to run from police, made the choice to exit the vehicle with a gun in his hand, made the choice to point that gun at the police and made the choice to pull the trigger...live by the gun, die by the gun. To further dismiss the truths of the incident are only going to deepen your resentment and unfounded fears.
I hope that you are someday able to accept the facts of what really happened and not hold to the bitter delusion that this was racially motivated. And it's a bit self-obsessed to believe the police give a rat's behind enough about you to follow you around...unless you're committing a crime or exhibiting suspicious behavior. And if I were afraid of being shot, I think the last place I'd be is "riding around".

A bit of advice...the community will have sympathy for the Browns and the tragic loss of a family member up until the point that the family starts this rediculous diatribe of "premeditated racial shooting", etc. After that, the community will seperate themselves from anyone making such rediculous ramblings. And when your mom is making it known that she intends to "get paid" for this, people will do everything they can to work against the Browns ability to profit from this tragic incident.

Prayers are with you and hope that your family can heal and let go of this bigotry that you harbor towards people that don't deserve it.

I would just like to say that the only people know what happened is the people that was their and everybody else that's going around hating on my brother for what reason do yall know ? I don't think you do. Are yall all mad at what yall did and now your trien to cover up your story with lies? seem like it to me, only god know what happened that day and don't no man deserve to die cause of the color of his skin everybody know Childress is full of HATERS and will always be. And yea how do Mr.Bradly tell me in his own words WHAT WAS I SUPPOSE TO DO HE HAD A GUN TO HIS HEAD IN CRYING WORDS BUT YALL SAY HE POINTED IT AT THE COPS ARE YOU SERIOUS I KNOW WHAT HAPPENED THAT day I WAS THEIR SO ALL THESE OTHER LIES THAT ARE GOING AROUND NEED TO QUITE CAUSE ITS JUST MAKEN IT HARDER ON YALL DON'T YOU THINK? But it doesn't matter yall bring up his past when he was a kid that's the only thing yall know how to do I wonder why is yall trien to make it seem like just cause when he was a kid and got in trouble he deserved to die I don't think so don't nobody deserve to die that way I don't care what you say and you say just cause maybe he ran from the cops he deserved to die I REALLY DON'T THINK SO but the ones on here that are talking what they don't know probably don't need to leave a comment cause the truth will be told weather yall like it or not it just will you want get away with this one and it's sad when your out riden around for me cause im still a teenager and im being harassed by cops not just one but like 3 what do yall think about that is it scary after having to see your brother get shot and killed by 2 cops and your getting followed around by these same cops yea it freaks me out will they kill Me? and say i pointed a gun to my head and so they started fireing because they claim they felt threatened hmm that's one of my fears . should I ride around with cameras in my car and audios? so if they stop me at least my car will catch everything that happens and at least my camera will work!!!!!!! but after its all over with maybe we will get new cops cause these are just out to kill somebody else believe it or not! but to my Dear and Beloved Brother T.K.B I love you and miss you with all my heart I think about you each and everyday I miss all of the good times we had and spent togeather I miss how you would always come to the house before I went to school and mom would cook us all burritos you got me cryin but smilen you always wanted to see us happy and when we needed something you tried your best to give it to us I would of never thought this would of ever happened to you i still say your here I can't get over the fact that your gone I try to stay strong for mom but sometimes I just can't I remember at my senior peparally when you came and I was so happy when I looked back and saw you sitting in the stands it made my day I just wish you could be here with us and when I graduate I promise I want forget your rose I was going to give you on the night of graduation but I love you and miss you dearly I know you come and see us everyday and your still here with us I love you and I guess Im going to let you go I Love You Bro.

Here tha deal. When you brake tha laws the laws will catches up wif you. Always member:

No iron chest can stops a bullet
Insanity is pointing a gun at da popo
Guns and felons don't mix
Guns and felons an popo is bad fo a brother
Enuf with the smokin weed peoples
Runnin from dem popo is bad fo a brother

what i donts get is when the popo shoots a guy that they donts also shoot some of the family that come to make trouble too. if they just pop a few caps mebbe that fix some things. if it is so racist there then the brown family woulda dones left. lemme axe you dis, if the browns family stills livin there that only mean one thang, they got a good business going with the weed cause they all be saying they gonna be burnin bud like he11 when they gets paid off by the city. i hopes the city raises tax on them browns cause they be buyin 20 inch rims after this. the city be gettin back that money as fas as they give it if them browns be buying rims and buckets of original recipe.

Mr Whiteman, you're a bit conflicting. You say wait for the Rangers final report, then go on to say how the city police are guilty. The city officers are not being investigated as criminals. Any time there is a shooting involving an officer, outside investigators are called in. Standard procedure. You go on to say that a washed pig will go back to the mud and a dog back to vomit? Do you mean like when Tabaris was released from prison and went back to a life of crime and dealing drugs to children? I think on that note, you and I can agree that they should keep the pigs/dogs of society in prison where they belong.

I for one am proud of the people that are willing to wear the badge and protect innocent citizens from criminals. I can't imagine how difficult it is to be a police officer and make a split-second decision under the direct pressure of being fired at by a convicted drug dealer.
The vast majority of people in town are rightfully praising the officers for their quick response and action to the threat the city faced that night. Thank God for policemen and women. They do the job no one else will.

The Rangers are involved in determining what happened in the shooting death of 28 year old Tabaris Brown in Childress, Texas.So with all your thoughts and ideas about what he deserved or did not deserve wait until the TEXAS RANGERS have concluded their investigation .
Of course the guilty are going to say any and everything to divert your attention away from the truth .The media is only reporting one side ,the CPD is only reporting the bear minimum .Don't believe the propaganda you may read or hear ...as the disgruntled person from the commmunity said ..."PRELIMINARAY INVESTIGATIONS"....it is far from being over .I wish it were ,but it's not .
And prepare yourselves for individuals like "MR X" that probably lives in your community and hides .He doesn't want justice ,just for all people of color to be shot down in cold blood . You know who you are !
A COWARD DIES A 1000 DEATHS AND A SOLDIER BUT ONCE .A Washed PIG GOES BACK TO WALLOWING IN THE MUDD AND A DOG BACK TO IT'S VOMIT ... you will probably take your animosity to your grave ,
It 's hard to change a person's views on life and color ... thank God we have a Justice System .
BLACK WHITE GREEN OR BROWN ,,,THESE COMMENTS ARE DIRECTED ONLY TO CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS (they know who they are )
Jackson Whiteman

TABARIS BROWN :"EVERYTHANG COOL JUS CHILL "

To clear up all the misinformation being floated by the family: A call went in to police from the FAMILY OF TABARIS the night of his shooting because he was discharging a firearm at a FAMILY PARTY. He was located by police and a high speed chase ensued. He pulled over near where some of his family was loitering at a local business (at 3am, no less). He exited the vehicle, GUN IN HAND. The two officers ordered him to drop his weapon. He fired a single round at the officers who then returned fired. The assailant was hit once in the head and twice in the abdomen, killing him. This is confirmed by two credible eyewitnesses and audio of the incident (contrary to some reports, there was actually audio recorded of the confrontation and you can clearly hear officers ordering him to drop his weapon, and the shot that Tabaris fired at them). Tabaris' extended family then descended upon the scene and made it difficult for emergency workers and police to do their jobs. Tabaris lay on the pavement for a period longer than normal because the family kept attempting to disrupt the scene and were harassing emergency workers. Tabaris' family was even making open threats to the police, EMTs and threatening to harm their families. The JP was delayed in pronouncing death because of the disruption from the Brown family.
Background on Tabaris: He has served time in prison for selling illegal drugs to minors. His rap sheet was quite extensive. Much of his family has similar rap sheets. Mostly drug related crimes.
On the report that the cameras weren't on: Not true. The cameras were operational and working the night Tabaris shot at the officers. However, the cameras only record what is directly in front of the vehicle and they were not pointed directly at Tabaris.
The Brown family has been telling everyone that will listen, about their plans to sue the city. They are boasting that they're "gonna get paid". Sad. Even at Tabaris' funeral, members OF HIS OWN FAMILY stood up to say how trashy Tabaris was.
This was a very unfortunate incident, but it was avoidable. If Tabaris had surrendered and not fired at officers, he would be in jail, but he'd still be alive.

Your ignorance is quite apparent . Preliminary investigations ... means nothing ,unless they are factual beyond a shadow of a doubt .Allegations means nothing unless they are proven beyond a shadow of doubt .
Angry because they are exposed . Their stories don't match , Evidence crumbled and their conversation mumbled .

Saddened by the fact that your buddies are facing criminal prosecution ?Now you scratch your heads in agony and scramble to fabricate your lies ,It's clear to me that you are the one with the criminal ties .

You thought you had the perfect plot .And then you find out the LOADED gun was not .It's not even mental for a criminal to point and display .When they come out that mean business and spray .

Now , you will be exposed and your dirt revealed .He didn't have a gun just something he wanted concealed .
Now i am wondering about the conclusion .Now they run around in confusion .

You have blood on your hands and mud on your face. And you want to pretend that it's business as usual and there is no case .

It's already figured out and put together .Scratch your heads and point while you age like leather .

Like the world has come crashing in .And now about it daily and you review your sin .

THERE HAS BEEN DECADES OF CORRUPTION IN THIS CITY ...
THE TIME HAS COME .DO NOT LISTEN TO THESE HATERS ,THEY WANT THIS MADNESS TO CONTINUE ,BUT IT SHALL NOT!!!

Preliminary reports state that the weapon Tabaris was holding was fired at the police before they, fearing for their lives and those of innocent citizens, opened fire and stopped a would be cop-killer. It's a difficult thing for the family to accept, I know. However, constantly attemping to divert blame from the criminal to the police makes the family look silly and desperate. And the family going around town saying they're going to sue and "get paid" doesn't fare well for the reputations of the family and the memory of Tabaris. This is a sad tale of a family, steeped in the tradition of government entitlement and petty theft, leaving as it's legacy, a fragmented and troubled covey of offspring that only knew crime as a means of income. Tabaris had been in and out of prison and, sadly but honestly, the citizens of the state are better off without having to continue to pay for his room and board.

J U S T I C E shall prevail...he left this world in the worse way to leave,and for what I ask?..People think it was ok to shoot down someone cuz he was in the streets in late hours and he must have been doing something wrong ..Please !!!...I dont care if it was daytime,wrong is wrong...Time will tell and show...RIP cuz and keep your head up to his family..

just admit it ya'll killed a innocent man, how can you mistake a cellphone from a gun.because you wanted to do it anyway and did he point the weapon at you?....we want justice

Do not judge ,or you too will be judged .(Matt 7:1 )
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone .John 8:1-11

We are all sinners in this life and have either done something wrong or are presently doing something wrong .Drug dealer ,prostitute ,tax evader ....etc.

What happened the last 10 seconds of his life is the only thing that matters now .Police proceedures....
was a firearm pointed ? Was the OBJECT indentified by the CPD or witness a firearm ?
I trust that the Texas Rangers will determine what actually happened that night .So,be slow to judge for now ...

Despite all of this criminals supporters we have to remember one thing..... innocent people don't run from cops. He was either guilty of something or high. If he was such a great citizen why did he run? And I don't know about him but I work for a living and I'm not out creeping all hours of the night cause I have to wake up and go to my job in the morning like other law abiding citizens who don't run from cops or pull guns on them. But to end my rant (which will get a slew of negative responses I'm sure) I just feel the need to ask..... what was such a "good citizen" doing that he felt the need for a gun? Yes its a tragedy that a life was lost but this is just the ultimate example of personal accountability.

How do you kno that he left the car with his hands up if you wasnt there? How do you kno what happen if he had a gun in his hand or not. Some of his family memebers clearly stated in one of his stories that he had a gun in the car that day. And by the way the cops in this town arn't racist. If they are racist then why wouldnt they do something about the rape case that happend in 2007 when a white girl was raped by a mexican. So go figure and eat your words.

and btw u will soon find out the truth..The truth being that there was no weapon pointed at the police AT ALL !!!

Cousin may r u rest in peace now.U dont have to worry about watching over ur shoulders because the police hate u anymore.May the other people now let u be.Negative people right now ur weapon is ur tongue.Is it right for someone to go and try to cut it out ur mouth?No one in this world is perfect,not even the one that say "I WOULD NEVER"..Dont judge and hate to b judged.Respect my family in the time they need it and that time is now...

MY PRAYERS GO OUT TO URE FAMILY...IM SO SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS AMD YES KEEP YOUR HEADS UP...NO MATTER WAT ANYONE HAS TO SAY.....IN THIS WORLD EVERYONE PAYS FOR WAT THEY HAVE DONE IN LIFE....AND I BELIEVE THAT EVERYTHING THAT HAS HAPPEND WILL COME BACK AROUND TO THOSE WHOM HAVE DONE WRONG.......NO MATTER WAT....NO ONE DESERVES TO GET MURDERED IN SUCH A WAY.....AND THOSE WHOM THINK DIFFERANTLY NEED TO BITE THEIR TONGUES BECUASE IF THEY HAD A CHILD IN THE SAME POSITION THEN THEY WOULDNT LIKE IT AS WELL....BUT AS I SAID....THEIR IS A GREAT LORD WATCHING OVER ALL OF US & ONLY HE KNWS WAT HAPPEND...AND ONLY HE CAN JUDGE & TAKE OVER THE SITUATION....MAY GOD BLESS YOU & YOUR FAMILY...I NEVER KNEW TABARUS BROWN...BUT I KNW THE CITY OF CHILDRESS TEXAS VERY WELL & THEY ARE CAPABLE OF ANYTHING...........MAY HE REST IN PEACE....AND I ASK FOR RESPECT HERE ON OUT FOR HIS FAMILY....BECUS IN CASE YOU NEVER NOTICED...RACISM IS ALOT OF THINGS...NOT JUST COLOR...IT IS ALSO NOT RIGHT IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM TO CALL ANYONE AN IDIOT...OR MORONS...ECT...WEN THEY HAVE ALREADY PASSED AWAY...THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS RESPECT HIM BECUS HE IS GONE....MAY GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU THAT TALK NEGATIVE ABOUT THIS FAMILY!!!

most of all facts will show, Once the Ranger gets there and hears the sheriffs side then witness that can actually see him being pulled over Mike.what if the story was backwards and this guy brutally shot shot them he would still be free, and what mike , theres no evidence no survelance and like most are saying you cant always believe the witness or lets see what if they all got to fire off shots you still dont have footage between two police cars. Ranger hes gonna be able to sniff out what really happened. Alot of people are gonna speak up.Thats how it happens in every case.

I wasnt there but i had just seen him a week before. but all i know is that he is my brother in-law, and i feel the police didnt have no reason to kill him. now thats another brown gone. from what i heard the story dont sound right and it seem like the local officers are covering up something. but the investigation will continue. i know "T" wouldnt pull a gun on no officer and he know that childress aint that big. so GOD be with the browns and keep your head up.

Dont go by hear say if u wasnt present at the scene when the shooting took place dont go by what you hear...Just know when its all said and done the TRUTH will b put out there...CHILDRESS cant cover up there mess forever...REMEMBER whats done in the DARK ALWAYS will come to the LIGHT no matter how long it takes either...

My family would like to extend our prayers and thoughts to all family members and friends of T.Brown during this difficult and sad time, especially to his parents and siblings. May God bless you and keep you.

Brooke, actually you can have a CONCEALED weapon in the car, just not on your body or in arms reach inside of the vehicle. Also, you must disclose that information to law officers.

YOU ITS FOR ONE THING TO JUDGE AND U REALLY DONT KNOW WHAT HAPPEN BUT ONE THING I DO KNOW IS THA REAL T.BROWN AND HES NOT WHT THA NEW AND EVERYONE IS TRYIN TO MAKE HIM OUT TO BE... BUT WE R GOIN TO LEAVE THIS ALL IN GODS HAND .... AND IT WILL BE TAKEN CARE WE LOVE U CUZIN AND UR ARE NOT FORGOTTEN BELIEVE THAT.....

Whom ever left the last comment obviously has no clue. In ALL accounts I've read and heard is the guy was fleeing from the police and when he finally stopped, he had a GUN! Who in their right mind would point a gun at the Police. Everyone knows what will happen. This sounds like a troubled man who wanted to die. These officers did what they were trained to do. And the Rangers will do their job, just has these officers did.

Whom ever left the last comment obviously has no clue. In ALL accounts I've read and heard is the guy was fleeing from the police and when he finally stopped, he had a GUN! Who in their right mind would point a gun at the Police. Everyone knows what will happen. This sounds like a troubled man who wanted to die. These officers did what they were trained to do. And the Rangers will do their job, just has these officers did.

How does one camera not function and the other one not be turned on .Being a police officer wouldn't you check to see if the camera is working ??? And then wouldn't you tell your Chief that it needs to be reapired ???? So many holes in their program ... sceme/cover up .... corruption ...

Racism is very strong around small country towns such as Tulia,Childress, and Esteline Texas. Law enforcers are wicked.The main thing that gets to me all polices know my Brown family.I dont understand why it was two officers shooting instaed of one.
God will see My Brown Family thru Justice
RIP. Ruben Brown/Tabaris Brown
See you soon Brown Family

Don't believe everything you hear from "so-called" witnesses. He had a gun, pure and simple.

Drew, you need to pay more attention to your incomplete sentences and broken thought patterns than to the details of this story. How can the suspect present both hands if he is holding a gun? Let's allow the investigation to procede to find out what happened before we begin to pass judgement in this case.

Did he have a weapons permit? If not, then he shouldn't have even had the gun in the car at ALL! And I'm not going to be so bold as to decide right from wrong at this point in the story, especially with so many unknown variables. But witnesses accounts are NOT always accurate. Especially in high stress events such as this. Our minds can play tricks on us and are even more susceptible to believe hearsay of what "others" saw that we ourselves may not have with our own eyes, yet we are willing to stake our life on it as fact.

MY ISSUE IS HOW CAN U SAW U FEEL THREATEN WHEN THE VICTIM LEAVES THE CAR WITH HIS HANDS UP IN THE AIR NO GUN IN SIGHT AND FEEL THREATEN? NO THAT WAS NOT THE ISSUE IT WAS A CHANCE FOR THEM TO FIRE THERE WEAPON CAUSE DOWN HERE THE ONLY FIRING OF WEAPONS IS HUNTER AND ACCORDING TO THE SUNDAY PAPER ITS BAD IN TX PERIOD.ALL IM SAYING THIS ISSUE WILL MAKE IT ROUGH AROUND HERE. I HOPE THE TX RANGERS DO THERE JOB. IT STINKS. WITNESS IS THE KEY! HE IS NOT KNOWN TO SHOOT AT COPS.