White police officer who killed innocent black man in his home sent offensive texts.

[RandySF]

When a white ex-Dallas police officer recounted her thinking as she fired the two shots that killed an innocent black man in his own living room last year, she told a jury it was fear, not racism, that drove her to pull the trigger.
“This is not about hate,” she testified in court Friday. “It’s about being scared.”

But after a jury convicted Amber Guyger, 31, of murder on Tuesday, prosecutors introduced text messages sent by the former officer that show her making offensive statements. In the texts, Guyger jokes about Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, mocks her black colleagues and discusses a dog that her friend warns “may be racist.”

“It’s okay.. I’m the same,” Guyger wrote back about the dog, just days before she fatally shot 26-year-old Botham Jean in his Dallas apartment on Sept. 6, 2018. One minute later, she texted again: “I hate everything and everyone but y’all.”

Prosecutors will use Guyger’s texts, her social media posts and her disciplinary record as a police officer to argue for a harsher sentence, though they haven’t specified what length of prison term they will request. The jury will decide her sentence, which could range from five years to life in prison, without the possibility of probation.





https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/02/amber-guyger-offensive-texts-botham-jean-murder/

[dalton99a]

1. During the MLK parade last year:

And this:

[lunasun]

2. I heard these existed but never saw them . Her actions after she shot him are most telling

Not sorry just afraid for herself. He was alive after she shot him
Not much evidence in the trial of first aid to dying man she shot
Just texting and pacing down the hallway
and this is someone trained in first aid
Perhaps wanted the victim gone + figured in her experience was that was better in a shooting who knows but glad they are exposing who she was before the shooting

[brush]

3. She got what she deserved. Her racism has come to light. I always thought the...

shooting was too quick a response, agenda like, as if there was previous bad blood. She had to know her neighbor, downstairs below her was a black man.

Did she plan it?

[MagickMuffin]

4. He lived on the 4th floor, she lived on the 3rd

So, in theory he was above her.

She does deserve to live the rest of her miserable life in jail. I hope that Bo visits her every miserable day of her life.

And I hope that night that she murdered Bo, gets played over and over and over again until she takes her last breath.

[brush]

5. Thanks for the correx. I wasn't sure if he was above or below her. I'm sure she...

was aware of his residency in the building though. Wonder if, since her racist social media posts have been exposed, if there was some recentment on her part?

[rownesheck]

6. I keep wondering

how did she get into his apartment? Was his door not locked? Did she always leave her door unlocked and so she just walked up, turned the knob and walked in? I didn't pay much attention to the trial. Were these questions ever asked/answered?

[LeftInTX]

7. His door was hard to shut all the way and was hard to lock. (It was one of those "stuck doors")

So, it was "stuck closed", but not locked.

(I've got one of those and it is a pain to lock)