Dallas shooting: First black Miss Alabama say man who killed Dallas cops is a ‘martyr’ and she doesn't feel bad for killed officers (Video)

US: Kalyn Chapman James, the first black Miss Alabama, have been suspended from her job after she posted a controversial video on her Facebook page on Sunday calling the suspected Dallas cops killer a martyr. Watch video below
Kalyn Chapman James, was Miss Alabama in 1993 and attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and is now a TV host living in Miami. 

Chapman said after hearing the news, she prayed a lot but doesn’t feel bad for the five police officers who died when sniper Micah Johnson opened fire at a Dallas rally Thursday.

“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.”

Chapman noted she was just leaving church when she decided to shoot the video in her car.

“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 and I know that those police officers had families and people who loved them and that they didn't deserve to die but I'm so torn up in my heart about seeing these men — these black men — being gunned down in our community that I can't help, I can't help but feel like I wasn't surprised by what the shooter did to those cops and I think a lot of us feel the same way.”

She went on to note that she doesn’t condone violence;

“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.”

Chapman later issued a statement expressing her condolences but reaffirming her feelings in the video.

“The fact that my opinion was considered newsworthy makes me feel like speaking up was exactly what I should do, because I can voice what so many people are feeling and dealing with and they should know they are not alone,” she wrote.

Chapman said the wife of one of the slain officers reached out to her after her post went viral.

“She said that she watched my video and she wasn't mad, she understood what I was saying and that she forgave me,” Chapman said.

“People telling me to watch my back, people telling me to be careful, people telling me the police should never protect me,” she added.