Botham Shem Jean (1991-2018) was an unarmed Black man killed in Dallas, Texas by an off-duty White police officer on September 6th 2018. The officer, Amber Guyger, entered his apartment and shot him dead. She says she thought it was her flat, that he was a burglar.
She says: She came home after working 15 hours and was still in uniform. When she tried to unlock the door it was partly open. She came in, saw a looming figure in the dark and gave “verbal commands”. When the figure did not obey, she shot two times. Only when she turned on the lights did she see that it was not her apartment. (The next-door neighbour did not hear any “verbal commands”.)
He says: …
Jean had a red welcome mat in front of his door – one of the few doors with any kind of welcome mat. People who knew him said he was “meticulous” and was not the sort to leave the door partly open.
One witness heard Guyger saying, “Let me in! Let me in!”
Jean was by all accounts a wonderful man, a devout Christian with a degree in accounting and a smile for everyone. He worked for PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
The mayor of Dallas, Mike Rawlings, called him “a model citizen”.
The prime minister of St Lucia, where Jean is from, had to fight back tears of anger.
Benjamin Crump, who was a lawyer for Trayvon Martin’s and Michael Brown’s family and now for Jean’s family, said:
“Black people in America have been killed by police in some of the most unbelievable manners. You know, driving while black in our cars, black people have been killed walking while black in our neighbourhoods, and now here we are being killed living while black in our apartments.”
The press swallowed Guyger’s “wrong apartment” story with that sickening childlike trust of theirs for the police. But at least we know he did not have a police record because they would have quickly pointed that out. Anything to excuse police brutality.
The Texas Rangers, the state police, are investigating the crime. They are independent of the Dallas police, so that seems promising, but it took them three days to arrest Guyger – and only after protests and a heated exchange with the district attorney. And they booked her not in Dallas County, where she lives and where the crime took place, but in neighbouring Kaufman County. They charged her with manslaughter.
The Dallas police department put her on paid leave – even though she was off duty. She has been with them four years. She shot Uvaldo Perez in 2017.
The police union seems to be backing her: she had no trouble making her $300,000 bail.
The district attorney, Faith Johnson, does not seem to be bending over backwards for Guyger. Johnson is a Black Republican appointed by the governor in 2016 and faces an election in two months (November 6th 2018). She is carrying out her own investigation and will take it before a grand jury to possibly seek a charge of murder.
– Abagond, 2018.
Update (September 14th): The police and the press have begun to assassinate his character. Shortly after his funeral the press reported that the police found 10.4 grams of marijuana at his apartment. If the shooting was just a tragic accident as Guyger claims, then why are they doing this?
Update (September 24th): Officer Guyger has been fired! The police chief said she did not do it sooner during the investigation because it could have affected the criminal case against Guyger.
Update (November 30th): A grand jury has charged Amber Guyger with murder!!! Of course, that is still a long ways away from finding her guilty and putting her in prison. But a step in the right direction.
Update (October 2nd 2019): Amber Guyger was found guilty of murder (!!!!!) and got 10 years in prison with a chance of parole after five.
Sources: mainly Google Images, BBC, Heavy, The Grio.
See also:
- Unarmed Black Americans killed by police in 2018
- killer cops
- grand jury
- when public prosecutors go up against the police:
- Black Brute stereotype
- respectability politics
- Micah Xavier Johnson – a rant in 500 words or less – also Dallas
- Trayvon Martin
- Michael Brown
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So, ¿Guyger was repeating ‘Let me in!’? Another nasty story of afrocide and afrophobia gets even nastier when seen thru the lens of the ´battle of sexes´. Another jealousy-obsessed cow, then. Damn, I hope she’ll get the verdict she deserves.
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This is a heartbreaking story. A tragic loss of life. Life taken away by a lowlife demonic monster! And that’s putting it mildly.
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A lot with this story does not add up. Rumor has it they were dating, but reports are saying that was untrue. Though I am curious on why his apartment. This does not seem like an accident.
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@ Sharina
Just speculation on my part, but they don’t necessarily need to have been dating for there to be some prior history between them, like an ongoing conflict between neighbors.
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Since she is the only eye-witness, are we suppose to believe her because she is woman (#believewomen), or because she is a LEO (#bluelivesmatter)? A lawyer by the name of George Milner speaking on the probable cause affidavit stated “It’s an interesting read,It doesn’t read anything beyond negligence of that they simply do not specify how she is reckless which is the required mental state for manslaughter. It reads much more like an accidental killing. I mean if someone were to drop a gun accidentally and it fired and it hit somebody.” He later added “In my honest opinion, I think if I represented her, she’d walk.”
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I’ve been a reader of your site for years but commenting for the first time. I live in Dallas and the past few days have been very emotional for many of us here. It’s sickening to watch the local news tell her side of the story as fact most of time. I also wish that there were more people willing to get out and protest this injustice. There have been small demonstrations, but i feel that he deserves so much more from us. They have even aired a news segment interviewing Amber’s family and friends, telling of all the supposed hardships they’ve endured in their family. It’s gross. I am unsure of what i can do but i desperately want to help his family get the justice they deserve…and the police department needs to learn a lesson once and for all.
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Manslaughter
Manslaughter in Texas is codified under Texas Penal Code Chapter 19.04(a) and is committed when someone “recklessly causes the death of an individual.” Manslaughter is a 2nd Degree Felony (2 to 20 years in the Texas Department of Corrections).
The legal definition for reckless is defined by Tex.Pen.C. 6.03(c). That provision states, ” A person acts recklessly, or is reckless, with respect to circumstances surrounding his conduct or the result of his conduct when he is aware of but consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the circumstances exist or the result will occur. The risk must be of such a nature and degree that its disregard constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that an ordinary person would exercise under all the circumstances as viewed from the actor’s standpoint.
Criminally Negligent Homicide
Criminally negligent homicide is defined by Texas Penal Code Chapter 19.05(a) and is committed when someone causes the death of an individual by criminal negligence. Criminally negligent homicide is a State Jail Felony (between 180 days and 2 years in a State Jail institution).
Criminal negligence is defined by Tex.Pen.C. 6.03(d) and is occurs when someone is “criminally negligent, with respect to circumstances surrounding his conduct or the result of his conduct when he ought to be aware of a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the circumstances exist or the result will occur. The risk must be of such a nature and degree that the failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that an ordinary person would exercise under all the circumstances as viewed from the actor’s standpoint.
https://roselawtx.wordpress.com/2012/10/16/manslaughter-and-criminally-negligent-homicide-in-texas/
“One witness heard Guyger saying, “Let me in! Let me in!”
The very last sentence posted above, under Texas’ “Negligent Homicide” vividly constitutes that Guyger’s “failure to perceive” and her “gross deviation from the standard” easily supports a charge of “homicide.”
There is nothing reckless about someone yelling “let me in.”And before long, someone is shot dead at the same place where Guyger was attempting to enter or barge her way in. This woman shouldn’t have been charged with the lesser accusation of manslaughter at all. A more appropriate or more consistent with the surrounding issues clearly support this woman should’ve had the charge of homicide levied against her.
Moreover, her belligerent and boisterous actions testify against her as well. Which is to say that she should’ve have even been charged with premeditated homicide. She was armed, certain about whose door she was knocking on and obviously had forethought of killing this man in his own residence from the very beginning. This was far from being an accident or anything in regards to being “reckless”, but in the alternative, she was sure about her target and therefore her actions were intentional, …. no doubt!
Furthermore, I read somewhere online that these two were in fact some type of consensual relationship.
When will Black men learn that dealing with white women is akin to being kryptonite to us? At some point, death will knock on your door and pay you a visit, figuratively and literally. Black man: LEAVE THESE WHITE WOMEN ALONE!
Carry on Black Men!
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@Solitaire
Agreed. Though the story of her thinking it was her apartment is very telling to her belief that such a bs of a story will be taken at face value. She anticipates no consequences.
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@ Sharina
Agreed. Unfortunately — as seems to often happen in these cases — the only other person who knew all the facts of the situation is dead. Funny how that tends to happen when cops are involved.
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@blakksage
Well, I would say that this issue is more about gender attitudes than about race attitudes, and a gender is above a race. Not all patois-speaking women are Clara’s-heart types, either, so I would reformulate this as ‘men [of any race], leave [these] wicked women [of any race] alone /to their lot’.
Let the Balance be kept.
P.S. Guyger looks more like a woman who brings suffering of poverty than a woman who brings an untimely death.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS7K95tIqMw&list=PLauBCQIkbyvAGYjkKCfLl8XzhJAt3Vsv8&index=29)
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@LB: Same here.
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The murder of this young brother is so upsetting for me. There is so much wrong going on in this investigation of this murderer Amber Guyger. The Dallas Police and media are going out of their way to protect this killer.
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Reblogged this on We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident and commented:
That this was treated as an officer involved shooting shows favoritism and double-standard. She was off-duty and should have been immediately charged the same as any other private citizen who killed a person.
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” one the few doors with any kind of welcome mat. ” This is a typo, you forgot ‘of’.
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@ Cherry Boy
Thank you!
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No Sir, your opinion of gender being above race is held in the eyes of the beholder and it may even be true from where you’re at (although I seriously even doubt that as well). However, as Childish Gambino poignantly titled one of his videos: “This is Amerika.”
There are no balances in a structural system specifically designed from the start to cherish or nourish IMBALANCES. And if that was the case law enforcement officers would be cherry picking who to murder. It would be a female one day and the next day it would be a male victim.
A Korean man would get murdered today; an American Black woman the next day and the day after, it would be an East Indian woman’s turn to die wrongfully at the hands of law enforcement. That’s not the case here!
And to further push your “gender” point, Amerika would’ve already had 22 female Presidents and 23 male Presidents just to keep the “balance” as you put it.
As we all know, that’s not the case. History is clearly static and it doesn’t bend merely to support a “gender” narrative to support your theory.
It is of my opinion, that Amerika is in fact a compendium of fairy tales in regards to freedom and race and a host of other intentional lies!
This is Amerika, … not Russia!
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY)
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I agree there’s more to this story that we know. Things just don’t fit together. The only facts that we know conclusively are that she shot him in his own apartment and that he was not doing anything wrong. If there was any remote possibility that he’d been somehow complicit in his own death, she and/or her attorney would be shouting it from the treetops. She killed a 100% innocent man without any justifiable cause.
My gut says that she’s going to get off by playing it as an accidental shooting. There’s precedent on stuff like that. Like a guy that shot his wife as she returned from going to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
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@blakksage
I guess you are taking the meaning of The Balance from your perspective, not with the meaning I imply. Words are tricky.
I’ve seen too much gray shades in the video, none of my favorite colours. Got the hints to the killings, though, but they are not ‘culturally specific’ anymore, nor are the ethnicity- or subrace-based slavery. The world is turning into a Reich-like cyberempire with digital ethnicities.
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@blakksage
So, do you really mean, Sir, that in ‘Amerika’ they actually still decide how to treat a person not by, say, a vital force volume, or money somebody has, or education, or a sexual orientation/gender, but first and foremost by a skin color?
Don’t your subconscious patterns make you distinguish first if you see a woman or a man, a weak or a strong being, a likable or oppostie kind of person? A level of possible danger rather than a race of a stranger?
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The galling thing about this tragedy is Guyger the murderer will not suffer any consequences. And there will be no justice for Botham Jean. May he Rest In Peace.
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If Mr. Jean had a red mat at his door, how come his killer could not see she was not in her apartment? Something is terribly rotten and stinking in this whole case. This dog is going to walk free and be protected. I am bracing myself for the pandemonium that will break
lose in our city. Downtown Dallas has barely gotten over the police shootings, now we will have to deal with the fallout from a not guilty verdict.
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@Mary Burrell
I hope it all works out, but like you I don’t have a good feeling about this case as it may very well play out like all the others. Common should have told her that if you key does not open the door then it is not your apartment. That is why I know if they are eating up this bs then there will be no real consequences.
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@Sharina: Sad but true.
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Update: The police and the press have begun to assassinate his character. Shortly after his funeral the press reported that the police found 10.4 grams of marijuana at his apartment. If the shooting was just a tragic accident as Guyger claims, then why are they doing this?
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@ sharina
Me neither.
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This story makes no sense. Who doesn’t know their own apartment from their neighbor’s?
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Well the good ole “he had drugs” took longer than usual, but sure enough they used it.
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The Rangers had, what, four days to potentially plant drugs in his apartment?
Just watch — if it turns out the cop was drunk and/or high when she shot him, they’ll use that to excuse her rather than to vilify her.
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I have a suspicion that the marijuana that was found was planted by the dirty cops. And even if he had weed or porn or dirty clothes on the floor he still didn’t deserve to be killed.
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So now they start the character asassination of the dead man’s character. This is so disgusting on so many levels.
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The marijuana, even if it was his, sheds no light on the shooting. The police made this public to assassinate his character. The shooting may have been a terrible accident to begin with (Guyger’s story is creaky, but who knows), but now it has become something more sinister.
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@blakksage
Speaking of The Balance, I used it in a broader and a mistic meaning, like a world at its existance is a sum of human intentions for good or bad, and it’s their balance that keeps a reality from falling into an abyss of absolute darkness or from dissolving into and absolute light, thus disappearing.
This can be noticed in a personal structure, too. It’s better to follow a tradition than don’t have any, and of traditions, it’s better to follow right views than erroneous ones, and of ritght views, it’s better to be born with an access to a right form of teaching, and of those having access to right forms of teaching, it’s better to be born as a human than as a deity, and of humans, it’s better to be born straight than queer, and of straight people, it’s better to be born as a man than to be born as a woman, and of men or women, it’s better to be born in a rich and influential family, with a good body, with all six senses at their strength. A race doesn’t matter.
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She previously filed a noise complaint against him and she probably had it in for him and just wanted to kill him. Everyday it is demonstrated in this country that black lives don’t matter.
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Botham Jean did all the right things white society says one must do to be respectable and acceptable and he is murdered in his home and still a criminal, and his killer is portrayed to be innocent. What’s wrong with this picture?
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So tired of this
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“I saw this once before when I was a rookie. Apparently this nigger broke in and hung up pictures of his family everywhere. Well, let’s sprinkle some crack on him and get out of here.”
Dave Chappelle, “Killin’ Them Softly” (2000)
(https://youtu.be/OY-9P_CnNZg?t=62)
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She was arrested in Dallas with a 20% white population. Trial will be held in a different county with 81% whites.
The fix is in.
Noe Garza, her relative, was throwing up white power signs. Another had an “all lives matter” shirt. This was no “accident”
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If she was drunk, the entire police department needs to be sued. That is not an excuse. You being intoxicated cost a man his life. How the hell do you maintain public trust if you can be intoxicated on duty?
You could take the whole police department to court based on that alone.
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Possibly to set a precedent that the police can run into your house and murder you at will
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I keep wondering why everyone is assuming the marijuana was his. They weren’t his bullet casings. I’m assuming it wasn’t his ballistic vest or his backpack with police equipment and paperwork in it. I’ve seen training day… she was on some elite arrest team… why shouldn’t we be assuming the weed was hers? I mean, pretty much every other thing on the list they published was hers right?
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I attended last Friday’s protest through Downton. It was my first March and Rally. For a while I didn’t believe marching and political agitation had any value. In truth it’s an important part of the process. It’s a symbolic show of solidarity. It mobilizes the base, and it makes people uncomfortable. I still think fighting economically is the best way, but marching and demonstrating has it’s place.
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Update: Officer Guyger has been fired! The police chief said she did not do it sooner during the investigation because it could have affected the criminal case against Guyger.
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I’m not seeing how it could affect her criminal trial. it was quite clear she was in the wrong. I would have been cut ties, but you know how it goes.
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They are really upping the ante on these.
The first one I heard was DrivingWhileBlack now we’re on to
ChillingInYourOwnApartmentWhileBlack
Crazy. Completely insane.
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Why are newspapers never boycotted for failure to report such incidents objectively?
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They are still in deliberations this week with the Botham Jean murder case. I have a very sick and sad feeling his killer will go free.
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Update: A grand jury has charged Amber Guyger with murder!!! Of course, that is still a long ways away from finding her guilty and putting her in prison. But a step in the right direction.
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Did this case continued somewhere else?
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@ Api
I will almost certainly be doing a post on Amber Guyger when her trial concludes.
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I hope Botham Jean’s family gets the justice they are seeking. I hope Amber Guyger gets the punishment she deserves for taking this man’s life.
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Amber Guyger on the stand crying her crocodile white woman tears. And saying how scared she was. Those same white woman tears have gotten many a black man killed. Her tears are nothing but an act to save her sorry neck.
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Who knew that relaxing in the comfort of one’s living room in one’s apartment eating ice cream could get you killed. RIP, Brother Botham Jean.
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@ Mary
And she did not even produce any actual tears, none that I saw at any rate. Even worse: she expects sympathy – while showing little sympathy for the man she killed.
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@ Abagond
Didn’t she say something to the effect of “ I hate myself everyday” or “I wish he had taken my gun and killed me.”? All of this is nothing but a phony act. I even bet her attorneys told her to look as washed out as possible and how to dress, just to try to gain sympathy from the jurors. I hope those jurors are not falling for her sorry act, and render a guilty verdict.
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@ Mary
I agree. Even in her phony act she could only manage “me” statements.
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I found that second statement really suspicious because it puts the picture in the jury’s minds of Botham Jean having a gun and shooting her. It almost sounds designed to sneak in the idea that she was right to be scared of him. I have to wonder if the wording was rehearsed with her lawyers.
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I am thinking Amber Guyger will get manslaughter at the lowest level. There’s probably not going to be a murder charge. Botham Jean’s family probably won’t get the justice they are seeking.
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Today would have been Botham Jean’s 27th birthday. RIP
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AMBER GUYGER HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER!!!!!!!!!!!
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@Abagond
I am totally surprised but what about the sentencing? Will the sentence match her crime? They might just let her off with minimum years vs life in prison. I was so angry yesterday about that Castle Law garbage. I am not fully rejoicing just yet.
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I’m glad they found her guilty of murder (rather than manslaughter). I would have done the same.
I didn’t find her claim that she made a mistake credible.There were just too many opportunities to recognize that she was in the wrong place. She can’t claim it was too dark to notice all the unusual furniture and furniture placement but not too dark to aim and deliver a fatal shot.
Her motive is a mystery but the jury doesn’t need to speculate about motive. There’s no doubt she killed Mr. Jean. That’s a fact about which there is no dispute. She was not attacked nor was she in a mortal struggle. He was in HIS home not in hers. What was she “defending”? Ridiculous.
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@Origin
I remember she initially filed a noise complaint against him. One neighbor said he could always hear Mr.Jean singing gospel music in his apartment. Perhaps she was annoyed by that. Whatever the reason he shouldn’t have had to die. I hope she gets life in prison.
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Murder under Texas law:
https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.19.htm
She shot to kill and she killed.
I’d hope she would’ve been under fire for killing even a dangerous suspect in Mr Jean’s state of being unarmed and undressed.
Her lawyers were using the only argument they could but if someone can successfully claim S.D from barging into someone else’s house and killing them then saying, “oops, thought it was my house” we might as well dismantle the whole justice system.
She’s George Zimmerman on steroids.
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@Origin
Didn’t know Mr. Jean was “undressed.” Nothing wrong with that because he’s in the privacy of his home. And it said he was eating ice cream. This is such a tragedy because he was an innocent man just relaxing and ends up dying because of this witch.
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And her with her over peroxide blonde hair with fake tears to match, remarked on the witness stand “This is not about hate, it’s about being scared.” The scared white woman crying her tears because of the scary black man routine. Glad the jurors didn’t fall for that business.
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*oops, used wrong version of bold tag in post above.
UBBcode from another forum was still on my mind.
@Mary
Yes, I vaguely remember something about a noise complaint too. I found this: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2018/09/19/why-apartment-managers-really-visited-botham-jean-s-home-before-he-was-killed-by-amber-guyger/
So I guess there was a noise complaint but the leasing office employees didn’t visit for that reason but for “marijuana smell”. It’s interesting that police also searched Mr. Jean’s home for “drug paraphernalia” and claimed to find some after Guyger murdered him. So I wonder if she was the one who encouraged the search warrant and also initiated that complaint that brought the leasing office to his door earlier.
The news article said her apartment was directly below his. Perhaps she really did not like him and was the one lodging complaints with the building’s management. They claim she had worked a 14 hour shift the night of the murder and was also actively involved with sexting her married partner. I can totally imagine the trashy airhead being tired and flustered that evening and being annoyed and angry that Mr Jean was awake and not completely quiet.
That’s all speculation, of course, but I definitely don’t believe it was an “innocent” mistake. Merely writing the word “innocent” in this context almost made me want to vomit.
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@Origin
They show racist text messages she made. She’s really garbage.
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@ Mary Burrell
From what I’ve read, not fully undressed but in his undergarments, which I guess falls under “a state of undress.” That might have been what he wore to sleep; many people do.
So basically he was in his pajamas, eating some ice cream before heading off to bed. Just relaxing after the workday and having a quiet evening. Poor guy.
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@ Solitaire
Yes, that’s my understanding of undressed.
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@Mary, Solitaire.
Yes, that’s what I meant. He definitely was not in his street clothes.
https://www.courthousenews.com/jury-takes-over-in-murder-trial-of-former-dallas-cop/
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This happened around a time when so many black people were shot at or had police called on them for doing completely innocent things that variants of “Verb-ing…WhileBlack” became a common hashtag on social media. Dying for “Eating Ice Cream in your Pajamas in your Own Home While Black” definitely upped the ante though. I’m still so disgusted by this despite the verdict. She will be punished to some extent but the victim lost his life so senselessly…
@Mary
I didn’t even know about the racist text messages. SMH.
How do black people serve on the police force in those hotbeds of racism?
I guess they numb yourself to it or they end up going postal like Christopher Dorner.
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@ Origin & Mary Burrell
Right, it just makes her story more questionable. If he’s an intruder, why is he sitting on your couch in only his underclothes watching your TV and eating a bowl of your ice cream?
If that wasn’t enough to make her realize it wasn’t her apartment, it should have been enough to make her take pause and think instead of blasting away.
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@ Origin
“How do black people serve on the police force in those hotbeds of racism?”
That actually was the subject matter of one series of her racist texts, where she and the other texter were complaining about having to work with 5 black officers and implying that black officers inherently have an inferior policing philosophy and/or work ethic.
Apparently the racist cops were texting while on the job, too, complaining as it was happening when they should have been concentrating on their work!
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@Solitaire
Wow.
The irony is totally lost on these racists. Texting on the clock about their black colleagues’ lack of work ethic? Invading a man’s home and claiming “castle doctrine”? They are masters of projection with a complete lack of self-awareness. The White Supremacist motto should be, “My 5h1t is minced meat and I’m hangry”.
Talking about the “castle doctrine”, the judge actually gave the defense a lot of what they wanted. From the last article I linked to:
It looked terrible at the time but now that the jury actually convicted her of murder anyway, it makes the conviction more airtight.
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What was with the Black cop caressing Amber Guyger’s hair right after the verdict?
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@Mitch
Some kerchief Head. I rolled my eyes. There she was acting like the maid from The Help.
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Made a mistake about his birthday he would have been 28 years old.
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@ Mitch
The black lady Sheriff stroking that monster’s hair. I hate the colonization and oppression that many of our black people are still enslaved to, I bet if that was my black a$$ being convicted and ready to go to prison she would not be braiding my hair or giving me Kleenex. It’s a true fact that blonde white women are privileged and some black folks just can’t escape the “house negro” mentality.
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The black lady Sheriff is proof that the color “blue” is a real thing. Law Enforcement is a fraternity. The so called “Thin Blue Line” is a real thing. Even the monsters among them are their brothers and sisters. It doesn’t matter what ethnicity they are. The fact that the first witness who was a Texas Ranger who was a black man testified that Guyger was well within her rights to kill Botham Jean. Black cop doesn’t mean good cop.
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Theoretically he had the lights or tv on jesus was she high she didnt recognize the furniture wasnt hers? Was it the same floor plan even
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@ Mary
Right. The sentencing could take the shine off the guilty verdict.
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So, Botham Jean loses his life forever and this witch only gets 10 years in prison for murdering an innocent man in his apartment. And she probably will only serve half of them. I knew it would turn out like this.
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A crowd outside of the courtroom started screaming even before the sentencing was read. Judge Tammy Kemp asked bailiffs to tell them to “cut that out.” (Oct. 2nd, 2019)
During the 2018 Martin Luther King Day parade a message sent to Guyger said, “When does this end lol”. She responded, “When MLK is dead… oh wait….”
Obviously, someone on the Dallas police force forgot to emphatically tell Amber Guyger, “cut that out!”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jury-sentences-amber-guyger-to-10-years-in-prison/ar-AAIcqZk?ocid=spartandhp
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There are people spending more time in prison for possession of marijuana. We’re not surprised though. We’re more shocked when there is ANY semblance of justice.
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Botham’s young teen brother told Guyger he forgave her and didn’t want her to go to jail. He went and embraced Guyger and they had a tearful embrace. The judge hugged Guyger and gave her a Bible and prayed with her and read her a bible scripture. The local news station is saying how beautiful everything is. The Lady Police Chief Of Dallas says they are moved by the compassion and forgiveness and she is working to make the Dallas Police Department better to protect and serve.
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And the local news kept saying how moving all the forgiveness and compassion was. Racist always want mercy and compassion they are not willing to give to those they have oppressed.
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I did a post on Amber Guyger:
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Yesterday the teenage brother of Botham Jean, Brandt Jean received a medal of courage award from the Plano Police Department for hugging his brother’s killer and offering forgiveness. How special is that.😒😒😒
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@ Mary
Wow, this just gets more and more sickening.
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Meanwhile Russia needs more events like this
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50858949
Send us all your unlove.
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