The Murder of Jazmine Barnes Is All Too American
In the holiday program at Monahan Elementary School outside Houston, Jazmine Barnes and her friend Sydne Hall were up on the stage, beaming alongside with their fellow second graders.
“Jazmine was on the right—my daughter, the left,” Sydne’s father, Terrance Hall, told the Daily Beast. “They sang as a chorus.”
Hall described the event with a single exultant word.