The first black Miss Alabama has been placed on administrative leave from her job at a Miami television station after she called the man accused in the shooting deaths of five Dallas police officers a "martyr" on social media.
Kalyn Chapman James posted an emotional
video from her vehicle Sunday explaining that she doesn't condone violence but she feels guilty for not feeling sad for the officers who lost their lives.
"I know it's not the right way to feel because nobody deserves to lose their lives and I know those police officers have families and people who love them and that they didn't deserve to die," James said. "But I'm so torn up in my heart about seeing these men -- these black men -- being gunned down in our communities that I can't help feel like ... I wasn't surprised by what the shooter did to those cops."
