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She'll get 20 years.
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She'll get 20 years.
They couldn't cover it up because she committed home invasion (albeit, apartment) breaking and entering in addition to the killing. I think some evidence of her being racist was presented in court as well.
9.5/10 sir
About what I was thinking tbh
If only he'd had a gun instead of an ice cream spoon.
Although I've heard it's possible to kill multiple people with a spoon.
He'd be facing Capital Murder for killing a cop while black.
Some of the texts released today shows what she was all about.
Then she finishes the conversation with this gem:-“When does this end lol,” read a text to Guyger, to which she responded, “When MLK is dead… oh wait…”
-“Just push them… or spray your pepper spray in that general area.”
-“Although she may be racist,” the dog’s owner messaged Guyger.
She goes on to say;
-“It’s okay,” Guyger replied. “I’m the same.”
-“Damn I was at this area with 5 different black officers!!!,”
-“Not racist but damn,” he responded.
-“Not racist but just have a different way of working and it shows,” she replied.
-“Stay low, go fast; kill first, die last; one shot, one kill; no luck, all skill.”
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...143208798.html“I wear all black to remind you not to mess with me, because I’m already dressed for your funeral.”
personally i dont think this stuff should carry much weight in sentencing. not like she sat there for a few seconds and processed the situation, thought "hm, this dudes black, i should kill him"
10 years, she'll get paroled in 5. Pretty much expected imo
I'm not so sure. A lot of white cops have been conditioned to fear violence by BLM or other supposedly anti-cop groups. I wouldn't be surprised at all if seeing a black man in an apartment she thought was hers caused her to immediately react as if he was a threat, where seeing a white guy might have registered more as confusion or prompted a less immediate reaction of "self defense."
Pretty much what I called a couple of pages back. I think it's a reasonable sentence given this wasn't a premeditated murder.
When is sentencing?
30 minutes ago
5-10 seemed reasonable given all the cir stances imo.
this is also why i thought it was weird people were very concerned about the charge being murder and not manslaughter. mitigating factors come into play during sentencing. the people that wanted the charge to be manslaughter probably assumed this would be the sentence anyway
Well maybe people think manslaughter might look better than murder on the next job application
Yeah I was OK with anything between 10-20 years, given she'll likely be given parole at first opportunity half through (so really 5-10). She got lucky to get on the lighter side of the sentence.
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.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2019/10/02/amber-guyger-text-messages-emerge-sentencing-trial/
DPD has great vetting procedures, only racists need apply
manslaughter sounds much worse tbh
Either way, she's finished and janitorial work is in her future immediately upon release.
black people are the most forgiving race of people. shoot up our churches, we forgive you. kill our brother eating ice cream in his house, we forgive you. smh.
Legal Analysts ‘Insulted’ and ‘Disappointed’ by Amber Guyger’s Lenient Ten Year Sentence
former Assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia Gene Rossi said that ten years was far too lenient for Guyger,
calling the jury’s sentencing decision insulting.
I know people who committed tax crimes who got more than 10 years.
I know non-violent drug dealers that got more than 10 years.
This jury found that she intentionally took the life of a helpless man who was 26-years-old. I am offended.
I was predicting maybe 30 or 40 years.
If I’m Amber Guyger I’m popping the champagne.”
Law&Crime Legal Analyst and civil rights trial attorney Katherine Smith said she expected a longer sentence, particularly in light of the
evidence the prosecution introduced during Guyger’s sentencing hearing.
“I’m scratching my head. I don’t get it,” Smith said,
“especially since we know there were some underlying biases that the defendant had.
I don’t get it.”
the sentence was a clear “win” for Guyger, whose attorneys did not appear to be on top of their game.
“It’s a win for the defense given all of their missteps,”
Guyger joked about the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
and made racially incendiary remarks about black police officers,
saying they have a “different way of working.”
The prosecution had urged the jury to return a sentence of no less than 28 years.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/legal-analysts-insulted-and-disappointed-by-amber-guygers-lenient-ten-year-sentence/
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