Dallas cop enters wrong apartment, kills Black man Botham Jean who lives there [LIVE TRIAL LINK]
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Wouldn't this be some shit
somebody check to see if he’ll froze overPretty much...the implications of a not guilty verdict would be a PR nightmare for the cops...can you imagine applying a castle doctrine to someone else's house that you entered?...the disregard for Black life would be too obvious to be swept away...they still tried all sorts of fuckery....talking about dude and weed smoking and other bullshit...victimizing the victim
He can’t. State crime
good
5-99 years, I have to wait to see what the judge does before I’m satisfied.
Damn, can we just enjoy this without this type of shit. Lmao!
unbelievable...
5 years I’m guessing
For murder, think the jury determines the time here in Texas on a Murder charge
I purposely stayed out this thread the entire trial. Im pleasantly surprised at the verdict after those instructions by the judge... Now lets see the sentence.
See, that’s what I was thinking. 5 years? Seriously?
Good. Lock this butch up.
why wasn't she cuffed at the verdict though
my nigga good news keeps coming
Good point.
She could go to lunch and head for the border. Smfh
I'm thinking 7 years
She deserves 20 though
She deserves 20 though
Salute!
The President can only pardon federal convictions.
A former Dallas cop has been found guilty of murder for shooting her unarmed black neighbor to death in his own apartment
Michelle Mark
14 mins ago
© Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News via AP
A former Dallas police officer who said she shot her unarmed black neighbor to death after mistakenly entering his apartment was found guilty of murder on Tuesday.
Amber Guyger, 31, killed Botham Jean, 26, last September and was fired from the department soon afterward. The incident reignited a longstanding public debate over the use of deadly force by police officers - particularly against people of color.
After the verdict was read in court on Tuesday, Jean's family members wept and celebrated.
"God is good," Jean's mother said, raising her fists in the air, according to The New York Times.
Guyger testified in court last week that she had believed she was in her own apartment, and thought that Jean was an intruder.
Guyger, who lived on the third floor of the apartment building, said she mistakenly parked on the fourth floor and went to the unit one floor above her own. There, she said she saw a silhouetted figure standing in the dark, moving towards her as she yelled, "Let me see your hands!" before she opened fire.
Read more: The Dallas cop who shot her neighbor was distracted by a phone call with her partner, who she was sleeping with
But prosecutors poked holes in her story, asking how she missed key indicators that she was in the wrong apartment - such as Jean's distinctive red doormat, the fact that the lock on his door didn't accept her key.
They also argued that Jean posed no threat to Guyger. He had been sitting in his living room, watching TV, and eating a bowl of vanilla ice cream when she walked through the door.
Michelle Mark
14 mins ago
- A former Dallas police officer was found guilty of murder on Tuesday, one year after she fatally shot an unarmed black man in his own apartment.
- Amber Guyger, 31, testified that she believed she was in her own apartment when she saw a shadowy figure moving toward her. She said she opened fire because she believed her life was in danger.
- Prosecutors poked holes in her defense, saying she missed a number of obvious signs she wasn't in her own home, and that Botham Jean, 26, was watching TV and eating ice cream and posing no threat to her.
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A former Dallas police officer who said she shot her unarmed black neighbor to death after mistakenly entering his apartment was found guilty of murder on Tuesday.
Amber Guyger, 31, killed Botham Jean, 26, last September and was fired from the department soon afterward. The incident reignited a longstanding public debate over the use of deadly force by police officers - particularly against people of color.
After the verdict was read in court on Tuesday, Jean's family members wept and celebrated.
"God is good," Jean's mother said, raising her fists in the air, according to The New York Times.
Guyger testified in court last week that she had believed she was in her own apartment, and thought that Jean was an intruder.
Guyger, who lived on the third floor of the apartment building, said she mistakenly parked on the fourth floor and went to the unit one floor above her own. There, she said she saw a silhouetted figure standing in the dark, moving towards her as she yelled, "Let me see your hands!" before she opened fire.
Read more: The Dallas cop who shot her neighbor was distracted by a phone call with her partner, who she was sleeping with
But prosecutors poked holes in her story, asking how she missed key indicators that she was in the wrong apartment - such as Jean's distinctive red doormat, the fact that the lock on his door didn't accept her key.
They also argued that Jean posed no threat to Guyger. He had been sitting in his living room, watching TV, and eating a bowl of vanilla ice cream when she walked through the door.
really??? niggas gone find something to complain about LOL!!
probably gone bitch about what i said too....smh
Setting people up always has been easy. But in this case even if she is with some white supremacist group like the good ole boys when they hold certain jobs they will turn on each other for their own protection. That 911 call was fake. Plus if she had got off some of her supervisors need to be put in check or charged. When Eric Garner was choked the sgt. of the officer was not there when he was choked to death. But she was punished instead of him which was some bullshit.