Wow. Legit shocked she was found guilty. I really hope the family can rest a little easier now that justice has been served. Such a heartbreaking, unnecessary tragedy.
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Watch: Trial for police officer who fatally shoot man after entering apartment she allegedly believed was her own. (Update: Found Guilty of Murder)
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Good. But I wonder how much of it has to do with the cop bing a woman. Black and minority cops are always sacrificial lambs.
0%. The Balch Springs officer, Roy Oliver, was a a white man and he was also convicted by a Dallas jury for firing into a car packed with unarmed black teenagers and killing one. And being a white woman normally draws sympathy rather than reducing it.
Don't think a male cop would have gotten away with this - fear for his life and the immediate threat would have been even less believable.
Yep. Sexism usually manifests as wanting to protect women because they're weak and powerless etc. It means they don't get paid or treated like humans, but god damn it gets the sympathy vote.
We are in the punishment phase. No sentence has been handed out yet.
Well, holy shit. Colour me surprised that there was a guilty verdict. I was expecting doe eyes and a "She's a good girl from a good family" outcome. Justice for a shitty situation.
Justice.
The story smelled fishy to me from the early details. The guy was just watching TV in his own apartment and it should have been pretty clear that she made a mistake immediately that it's not her apartment. Hell, I've walked up to a car that I thought was mine in a parking lot and it doesn't take long to realize I made a mistake, even in instances where I am stubbornly wondering why the door isn't unlocking, it doesn't take more than a little observation to put the pieces together. You see the inside looks different or maybe the wheels are different or other clues that it isn't your car since you see it every day you remember those things subconsciously.
The story smelled fishy to me from the early details. The guy was just watching TV in his own apartment and it should have been pretty clear that she made a mistake immediately that it's not her apartment. Hell, I've walked up to a car that I thought was mine in a parking lot and it doesn't take long to realize I made a mistake, even in instances where I am stubbornly wondering why the door isn't unlocking, it doesn't take more than a little observation to put the pieces together. You see the inside looks different or maybe the wheels are different or other clues that it isn't your car since you see it every day you remember those things subconsciously.
Sentencing is usually always separate. Will probably be decided in a few weeks or months.
I always knew she'd go down. She wasn't on duty so she shouldn't have a police gun with her among the many other huge red flags on this incident. The poor victim literally did nothing.
We're in the sentencing phase but I think the recommendation is 25-Life.
That's still yet to be decided. Even though the jury was unanimous on the murder charge, I do believe this where their opinions will be more divisive.
Yeah, it's really hard to not think that if this was a white dude the outcome would be different.
I keep hearing this allegation tossed around in this thread but a google and youtube search gave me nothing regarding her or her family being racist or any sort of racial insensitivity on her behalf at all. Can someone please post an article or YT vid substantiating this claim? Genuinely curious.
All you have to do is literally type Amber Guyger racist family into google. You will see Guyger in pictures with her brother in law where he is literally throwing up white power hand signs. Also their is a picture of her with her mother who is wearing an all lives matter shirt. Also its 100 percent confirmed Amber Guyger is racist her own texts proved she was.
10 years, eligible after 5? I assume that means she'll be out in 5.
Seems kinda like a slap on the wrist but prison for 5 years must be no easy task.
Glad she at least got that over nothing. Not holding my breath for the full 10.
Seems kinda like a slap on the wrist but prison for 5 years must be no easy task.
Glad she at least got that over nothing. Not holding my breath for the full 10.
5 years before parole was the minimum allowed by law iirc.
Not surprising due to her status as a police officer, I think she should have gotten longer for not trying to save the man's life. She did not attempt to give any help after the shooting.