According to several confirmed news reports, former Dallas Police officer and convicted murderer Amber Guyger has appealed her murder conviction, seeking to have the charges changed, thus, her sentence shortened. Guyger, who is serving a ten-year sentence for shooting 26-year-old accountant Botham Jean in his own apartment on September 6, 2018. A little more than […]
A Dallas Judge has come under a lot of fire after a photo surfaced of the Judge presiding over a controversial murder trial was caught hugging the woman convicted of murder following the sentencing. Judge Tammy Kemp sentenced former cop Amber Guyger to 10 years in prison for the murder of Botham Jean in 2018. […]
There is a reason why Bryan Stevenson’s lynching museum and memorial in Alabama are chock full of soil from the blood drenched ground beneath hundreds of southern strange fruit-bearing trees. The Legacy Museum and The National Memorial for Peace and Justice tell the stories of the ugliness of American bigotry, and serves as evidence that […]
State District Judge Tammy Kemp has received lots of backlash from her behavior after the sentencing former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger to 10 years for the killing of Botham Jean. Kemp gave her a bible, hugged her. Many felt this behavior was inappropriate and has decided o take action. One organization, in particular, Freedom […]
From the first time Black America heard the story about Amber Guyger not knowing that she was not in her own house when she shot and killed Botham Jean, we knew she was a fraud, liar and racist. What… we were definitely thinking that. The “Harriet Gene” that we all have…. that helps us sniff […]
An ex Dallas police officer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the 2018 killing of an unarmed black man in his apartment. Amber Guyger was found guilty of murder on Tuesday for the 2018 killing of Botham Jean. Jean was sitting in his 3rd-floor apartment when Guyger broke in claiming that she thought […]
Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was found guilty of murder on Tuesday for fatally shooting her neighbor, Botham Jean while he was sitting on his couch eating a bowl of ice cream. Guyger alleged she shot Jean after thinking he was an intruder when she mistakenly entered his apartment. Amber Guyger used her service […]
Amber Guyger was found guilty of murder on Tuesday (Oct. 1) for fatally shooting Botham Jean after she believed he was an intruder of her home after mistakenly entering his apartment. Guyger is now facing life in prison after less than 24 hours of deliberation. CNN details Guyger was indicted last year but had the […]
The trial for Amber Guyger, an ex-Dallas police officer who was charged with the murder of 26-year-old Botham Jean, concludes its first week. Guyger shot and killed the young African- American attorney in his Dallas apartment last year after believing his apartment was her own and mistaking him for an intruder. Since the start of […]
Amber Guyger took the stand during the fifth day of her murder trial crying uncontrollably as the defense’s first witness after prosecutors rested their case against the ex-Dallas police officer. Amber Guyger is accused of murdering Botham Jean in his own apartment Sept. 6, 2018 as he watched TV in his home eating ice cream. Her […]
Words by Jessica Dupree The trial began Monday (Sept. 23) for former police officer Amber Guyger who killed her neighbor, 26-year-old Texas resident Botham Jean, on Sep. 6, 2018. Guyger told police that she mistakenly believed that she was in her apartment and that Jean was a burglar. Defense attorney’s for Guyger says she was […]
A former Dallas police officer was charged with murder on Friday for shooting an unarmed Black neighbor whose apartment she said she mistakenly entered instead of her own, prosecutors said. Amber Guyger, 30, surrendered to authorities after a grand jury indicted her on a charge of murder in the Sept. 6 death of Botham Jean, […]
A white police officer accused of fatally shooting her black neighbor inside his own apartment was fired Monday for “adverse conduct,” the Dallas Police Department said in a statement. Police Chief U. Renee Hall dismissed Officer Amber Guyger during a hearing Monday, according to the statement posted on Twitter. Guyger has been charged with manslaughter […]
In this very graphic footage of another unarmed Black man being shot by officers of the law, the results from the following footage have provided enough evidence for prosecutors to indict a former Mesquite, Texas police officer on aggravated assault charges in the shooting of Lyndo Jones. The trial for Derrick Wiley is taking place […]
The family of Botham Jean has accused cops on Thursday of smearing the victim ever since an off-duty cop fatally shot him killing him in his own apartment. Officer Amber Guyger entered the apartment, “mistook” his apartment complex for hers and fired two shots after accusing the victim that he was in her apartment where […]
A Dallas cop who fatally shot a man in his own home after allegedly mistaking it for hers was charged with manslaughter, as per a Texas Ranger. A white officer named Amber Guyger was off duty when she shot Botham Shem Jean, a Black man, police said Thursday. The 26-year-old St. Lucia native was unarmed. […]
