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On 12 July 2016, the Facebook page Heroes In Blue published the status update depicted above, describing the life of Dallas Police Department Chief David Brown, who lost his son, his brother, and his police partner in separate incidents of crime and gun violence: Almost exactly six years before the Dallas police shootings, local news outlets reported the death of Brown's 27-year-old son, after he shot and killed a police officer in 2010: The elder Brown had been serving as Chief for less than two months at the time of the incident (which took place on Father's Day). Shortly before Brown's son and the police officer were killed, the normally circumspect Chief spoke to The Dallas Morning News about the unrelated 1988 and 1991 deaths of former partner Walter L. Williams and Brown's brother Kelvin: Brown was also criticized by fellow officers over a last-minute police escort his son's funeral. All three claims about Dallas's police chief were true. In 1988, Brown's former partner Walter Williams was shot to death. In 1991, his brother Kelvin was killed by drug dealers in Phoenix. And in 2010, his son David Brown killed an officer and was shot and killed at the scene, just seven weeks after the elder Brown became the Dallas Chief of Police.
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