Amber Guyger guilty in
Botham Jean shooting, jury finds
Fox News,
by
Barnini Chakraborty
Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter,
10/1/2019 12:32:10 PM
Amber Guyger, the white Dallas cop who shot black neighbor Botham Jean when she mistook his apartment for hers, on Tuesday was found guilty of murder.
She faces a maximum of life in prison.
Guyger was off duty but in uniform when she shot Jean twice, hitting him in the head and chest on Sept. 6, 2018. She had worked a 13-1/2 hour shift on the Dallas Police Department's crime response team that day, and mistakenly parked on the fouth floor of the complex's garage.
Guyger lived on the third floor and Jean, a 26-year-old accountant from St. Lucia, lived in the apartment above hers.
Prosecutors said Jean was watching television
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 10/1/2019 12:34:35 PM (No. 194719)
Agree with OP.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 10/1/2019 12:49:26 PM (No. 194727)
little too much weird going on here..
was she stalking him or was she jilted?
just doesn't add up..
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
msjena 10/1/2019 12:53:38 PM (No. 194731)
What was her motive? It is a tragic situation, for sure, but I'm not sure it was murder if she thought someone was in her apartment.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
John Gee 10/1/2019 12:55:21 PM (No. 194736)
Amber didn't know the guy. She was coming off a 13 hour work shift and got onto the wrong floor and went in the wrong apartment, which apparently is a common occurrence in that building. She suddenly was confronted with a large black man, probably in a state of agitation, in what she believed was her own apartment. She shot him.
Now this court has decided she did this deliberately as a racist, apparently. It stinks.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Newtsche 10/1/2019 12:57:53 PM (No. 194741)
Not murder, negligent act resulting in death.
The defense bumbled, loses, the prosecution overreached, wins. Another scalp for racial justice. Again.
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Negligent homicide or manslaughter, NOT murder. I can guarantee if it was a white victim the result would have been like I said.
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Walk into another man’s apartment and shoot him to death. SMH
Give her the needle.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
web 10/1/2019 1:36:48 PM (No. 194770)
Yeah, if I walked in to (what I thought was) my apartment and saw a large black man eating (what I thought was my) ice cream, I would shoot him, too. Nobody touches my ice cream...
That being said, these cops are a bit too quick to pull their guns and shoot someone. Perhaps that comes from working in Dallas, and having lots of black criminals to deal with every day. Yet, they are supposed to access a situation and take appropriate action, not just blast away.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Luandir 10/1/2019 1:43:30 PM (No. 194777)
It would be extremely interesting to know the makeup of the jury.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Daisymay 10/1/2019 2:16:07 PM (No. 194820)
It doesn't make any sense to me that she MEANT to walk in and shoot the guy (and ruin her life). I think it was a mistake she made after working 15 hours. Yes, she walked in and saw a large Black man in her apartment. She said he was yelling and walking towards her (because he wanted to know what SHE was doing walking right into his apartment. She thought he was going to attack her and she shot him. I would not have voted her guilty of murder! Not sure what the other choices were, but murder? No!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 10/1/2019 2:16:59 PM (No. 194822)
She didn't notice the furniture, decor etc...in the apartment was not hers? Very reckless. Prison will not be kind to her either.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Connor 10/1/2019 2:18:39 PM (No. 194823)
What difference does it make whether or not she had drugs in her system? He is just as dead. Why on earth didn't she announce herself as police. He wasn't holding a weapon. No, she just unloaded her gun out of fear. Not just a bad cop, but a loose cannon. You can't just shoot people before you assess the situation.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 10/1/2019 2:36:54 PM (No. 194833)
Apparently she could have had a bad case of jungle fever and he declined her fantasy. She seems a bit creepy but at any rate. I don't think she intentionally planned on murdering him, so the charge of murder was a bit too much. Let's see how the appeals play out.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ramona 10/1/2019 2:48:23 PM (No. 194840)
Lots of evidence was presented to show A.G. to be negligent -at best. From where the man was shot it was pretty clear he was rising from the sofa when he heard someone entering his apartment. She claims she yelled at him twice to show his hands. None of the neighbors heard this, though.The officer had been pretty much non-stop texting/sexting her police officer boyfriend (he is a married man as she drove home and entered the building). She was definitely distracted and not simply exhausted from a day at work. She ignored multiple signs that she was on the wrong floor and at the wrong apartment, including standing on a distinctive door mat. Also, a red light went off when she put her key in the door, indicating it wasn't the right door. She also claimed to have followed her police training by the way she parked her vehicle at and numerous other steps. But she didn't follow protocol for interrupting a (potential) break-in/burglary. She will pay a steep price for her foolishness. Another family put a good man in the ground. I don't feel too sorry for her.
Ramona (the Pest)
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
stablemoney 10/1/2019 3:31:04 PM (No. 194862)
We have these admissions. She parked on the wrong floor, went to the wrong apartment, inserted a key that could not have turned the lock. This did not lead her to look at the apartment number on the door. She entered with a drawn weapon, and shot a guy sitting on the couch eating ice cream--that does not seem to be life threatening. All that is enough to be put into prison. The technicalities and degrees of murder and man slaughter are not easily decipherable, which is why we have judges and prosecutors, so I leave that to them.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
CactusStar 10/1/2019 4:11:13 PM (No. 194875)
When you are a 5'6" 120 pound police woman, your first line of defense is likely your gun. Not so for a 6' 220 pound man. Sad situation.
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She walked into someone else's house and shot an innocent man in his own house.
If she wasn't a cop, they'd have already buried her under the jail.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
msjena 10/1/2019 4:57:30 PM (No. 194903)
I agree she is guilty--just not of murder. If she acted out of fear, she wouldn't have had the necessary state of mind for premeditated murder. She should have tried to negotiate a plea deal--a lesser charge and prison time. Very foolish to roll the dice with a jury, especially given the publicity, the sympathy for the victim, the protests of the family and (sorry to say this) the black woman judge.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 10/1/2019 5:03:53 PM (No. 194910)
Was she drunk or high? How does one walk into someone else's apartment and not notice it isn't yours? Just plain stupid? If she is so panicky she shouldn't be in law enforcement and have a gun to boot.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 10/1/2019 5:14:40 PM (No. 194917)
Seems a lot closer to negligent homicide, or negligent manslaughter than murder.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
qr4j 10/1/2019 6:09:17 PM (No. 194949)
I wonder why the defendant did not just flee the apartment and call the police. If the door was ajar, doesn't that mean one might need backup from other cops? All seems very weird.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 10/1/2019 6:33:33 PM (No. 194974)
Manslaughter was the appropriate conviction. The woman parked on the wrong level of the apartment building. When she found her door open, she saw that (as I would) as a clue that a burglar was inside. She shouted to him to put up his hands and was in a police uniform. She may have been negligent, foolish, and many other things, but she is not a murderer. I agree with those who believe that her being white doomed her with that jury. I would bet the farm that most of the jury were minority.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 10/1/2019 6:36:15 PM (No. 194980)
I should have said *** the *** door, not *** her *** door. My apologies.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DVC 10/1/2019 6:58:23 PM (No. 194994)
#22, do you understand that she was "the police"???
"Call the police"?? Really?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
snakeoil 10/1/2019 8:51:54 PM (No. 195049)
When I lived in apartments this would happen. All the apartments are the same from the outside. I didn't attack anyone and they didn't attack me. I have some sympathy for the woman but she took an innocent life. My doors were always locked so someone bursting in was not a problem. Would have thought that she would have noticed that she was not in the right apartment. But stupidity is not premeditated murder. I hope I any never in a situation like this. Frankly, I don't know how I would react. Imagine I would run.
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