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Amber Guyger guilty of murdering black neighbor Botham Jean in his own home
The Guardian via Yahoo Noose ^ | October 2, 2019 | Tom Dart in Houston

Posted on 10/02/2019 9:33:26 AM PDT by Navy Patriot

A former police officer who argued she had a right to use lethal force when she killed an innocent man after mistakenly entering his apartment has been convicted of murder.

Amber Guyger faces a lengthy prison sentence after a jury found her guilty of the murder of Botham Jean in Dallas on 6 September last year – a verdict Jean family attorneys hailed as a significant moment in the battle to hold police accountable.

Guyger is white. Jean was black. Guyger is the first Dallas police department officer to be convicted of murder since the 1970s, the Dallas Morning News reported.

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To: colorado tanker
What type of murder was she convicted of?

Not sure, and not familiar with Texas law, my take is race was not a factor, the jury pegged her as a liar, was pissed, and gave her the max option.

21 posted on 10/02/2019 9:49:23 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS Mob Rule, another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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To: Navy Patriot

If it was a mistaken entry into what she thought was her’s. Manslaughter

If she new it wasn’t her apartment. Murder.

Of course race has entered into this. The real racism is not her killing him, but the trial itself.


22 posted on 10/02/2019 9:50:28 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill yo u.)
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To: Chainmail

“”How’d you react if some cop entered your home and shot you?””

Probably react DEAD.


23 posted on 10/02/2019 9:50:38 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: subterfuge

It was “just” murder, but I guess we’ll never know if it was premeditated - we have only her say-so.

If he was a family member of mine I’d want a murder conviction as well; anything less vindicates the blactivists that claim two different justice systems.


24 posted on 10/02/2019 9:50:55 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: subterfuge

We’ll never know if it was premeditated or not. All we have is her word and that’s not very reliable to many.

How does anyone climb another set of stairs, walk down the hallway seeing a bright red welcome mat that isn’t yours open the door to an apartment that doesn’t look like yours and then blow away a guy who isn’t threatening you without it being intentional?

I might have been swayed to a lesser charge but for that red mat. No way after seeing the police body camera. Bright red. The only color in the hallway.


25 posted on 10/02/2019 9:52:11 AM PDT by bgill
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To: DoodleDawg
Entirely different situation. You surely knew that you had no right to enter my house.I'm strongly inclined to believe that she genuinely believed that she was entering her own home.

And re-read my comments. I never said...nor do I believe...that she should "get off". Ten years in prison for negligence but no more.

26 posted on 10/02/2019 9:52:36 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I don’t see this standing up on appeal!


27 posted on 10/02/2019 9:53:05 AM PDT by ontap
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To: edwinland

Mine also. She must be a mental case.


28 posted on 10/02/2019 9:53:11 AM PDT by angcat (THANK YOU LORD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!!!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

“I am firmly convinced that she didn’t set out to harm anyone...she made a huge mistake.”

Mistake? LOL!


29 posted on 10/02/2019 9:53:39 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: DoodleDawg

Did she break in or did she think it was her home?


30 posted on 10/02/2019 9:54:16 AM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: albie

No, there is more.


31 posted on 10/02/2019 9:54:33 AM PDT by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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To: angcat

“Mine also. She must be a mental case.”

She was assigned to elite squad of about 10 members.

Her second shooting. First was when some dude took her taser away.


32 posted on 10/02/2019 9:56:24 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: bgill
I might have been swayed to a lesser charge but for that red mat.

And when you enter your home you always do a 10 minute analysis of everything around you?

33 posted on 10/02/2019 9:56:34 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: bgill

“”walk down the hallway seeing a bright red welcome mat that isn’t yours open the door to an apartment that doesn’t look like yours””

You believe she knew the door to the wrong apartment was going to be open and she could walk right in?


34 posted on 10/02/2019 9:58:05 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: albie
She’s white, he’s black, end of story.

You left out the part where she killed him.

35 posted on 10/02/2019 9:59:25 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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To: angcat

Do we, the public, know if she was on any meds of any kind ?

otc or Rx


36 posted on 10/02/2019 9:59:31 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: Gay State Conservative

“”I’m strongly inclined to believe that she genuinely believed that she was entering her own home.””

Same here..


37 posted on 10/02/2019 10:01:05 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: bankwalker
Did she break in or did she think it was her home?

She was in the apartment without the permission of the person residing there. That's breaking in.

38 posted on 10/02/2019 10:01:49 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: TexasGator
You don't have to lecture me about violent death. I worked in a big city ER for years. I've seen...and heard...and smelled more violent death than you can imagine.

It all comes down to motive. What motive did she have to intentionally cause his death? As I said in an earlier post if there had been "bad blood" between them (as often happens with neighbors,particularly in apartment buildings) then my first thought would have been "murder".

No motive = no "murder"...in my book at least.

39 posted on 10/02/2019 10:04:06 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: Navy Patriot

In Texas, if you kill someone while committing a crime, it is murder, plain and simple. Easy decision.

She entered illegally (breaking and entering with no warrant). The law has no provision for “I made a mistake” .

Now the hard part -—sentencing -— which is where all the other factors can be considered.


40 posted on 10/02/2019 10:04:13 AM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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