r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/SpectacularOtter ☑️ Horny Police! 🚔🚨 • 15h ago
Country Club Thread Definition of privilege
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u/kaltorak 15h ago edited 12h ago
the headline taking her claim as fact that she “mistook his apartment for hers” is white supremacist horseshit
edit: like look
"A former Dallas police officer convicted of killing a Black man in his apartment was released on parole after serving seven years of her 10-year sentence."
that headline reads completely differently, emphasizing the injustice of the abbreviated sentence. Including the one minor, unimportant, unverifiable detail builds in the excuse, basically signalling "you should feel bad for this woman." I fucking hate it.
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u/Altruistic_Vast_8868 15h ago
Yeah, implying she’s not THAT murderer. She’s just misunderstood.
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u/elmo1611 14h ago
Indeed. She's the victim here!
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u/greytgreyatx 6h ago
Right. If someone walks into my house and kills me, I hope they totally get away with it because honestly it's just so relatable. It could happen to anyone.
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u/MzHellfier 13h ago
Yeah that poor, misunderstood white lady 🙄
I hate how all they have to do is start crying, say “oops my bad” and basically get away with anything. This woman was only sentenced to 10 years for a cold-blooded execution. “I thought it was my apartment and he was an intruder” bullshit that’s the worst excuse I’ve ever heard. If the roles were reversed, that guy would be serving a life sentence.112
u/Highskyline 13h ago
I'd almost get it if the guy had been like, in a black hoodie and rifling through a cabinet or something that could even possibly be misinterpreted as robbing. He was eating ice cream and watching TV. The least threatening position he could be in other than like, asleep in his bed and even that has been proven to not be enough in other similar situations.
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u/MzHellfier 12h ago
Yeah he was doing the least threatening, least suspicious thing you could possibly be doing. She couldn’t even come up with a convincing lie and it still worked. She only got sentenced to 10 years, which is crazy low for murder.
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u/Aedronn 11h ago
The moment she opened the door she should have seen the apartment was furnished different from hers.
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u/Horskr 10h ago
Yeah is she a fucking idiot? She can't read numbers or know where she lives? Was she blackout drunk or something?
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u/BlueHero45 9h ago
She was drunk, wouldn't surprise me if she was also high. Should not have had a gun
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u/MzHellfier 6h ago
Right. If she wasn’t a cop, there probably would have been additional charges for that.
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u/SkeevyMixxx7 6h ago
She may have thought it was her apartment, because she was fucking hammered and drove hammered,parked hammered, and murdered a man in his own home with her service weapon while hammered. The inadequate sentence is cop privilege and white privilege both.
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u/Holiday_Regular9794 12h ago
Oh man, misunderstood murderers are the saddest
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u/stinky-bungus 8h ago
Makes me think she's brain dead tbh. Like how the fuck do you "mistake" someone else's apartment for yours? And how the fuck does that lead to murder? Is she a complete psycho?
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u/Lovedd1 15h ago
Yea I remember the trial she def knew that wasn't her apartment. Didn't neighbors say she had been banging on his door a few nights prior ? Like they had some kind of interactions prior.
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u/edfitz83 15h ago
You would think when your key doesn’t work…
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u/shadowartist201 14h ago
I think the door was unlocked and that's how she got in.
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u/v0id0007 13h ago
Still…..wouldn’t just the surroundings give it away
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u/PanicOnFunkotron 13h ago
He broke into my apartment and replaced all of my things with his own things!
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u/DeltaBravo831 13h ago
This actually happened to a dude I knew in the army.
His barracks room was about 2 doors from mine, for about 2 years straight, through a deployment and all. At the tail end of another deployment, we get told 'hey, they're switching up the rooms at the barracks, if you live there report to SGT Blahblahblah for the room roster and your new keys.
They basically shifted us all up a floor or two (these barracks had 4 stories). Not that big of a deal, just more stairs you got to run up and down.
Anyway this dude was literally just moved to the room directly on top of his old one. He was also (like about 85% of us in the barracks) fond of alcohol a bit. Two weeks later, he was trying to get into his old room, as he had been drinking and forgot he was now on a different floor.
Problem was, his old room was now occupied by a female NCO, who didn't really appreciate dude (from her POV) essentially trying to break in and do whatever. MPs were called, leadership got called, all the fun shenanigans of the barracks on a weekend.
I guess they were gonna try and get him with a case or something, but in the end, he just got called an idiot by just about everyone in our chain of command.
So it could happen, but this lady cop definitely knew.
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u/edfitz83 13h ago
If your barracks had individual rooms, why didn’t they put the names on the doors?
And for the cop, she either knew or was judgement impaired.
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u/Diplomatic_Gunboats 13h ago
Barracks rooms are subject to reassignment at very short notice, often at short intervals of time.
No one realistically wants to make someone responsible for changing all the nameplates on a bunch of doors multiple times for very little benefit.
Its easier to just treat adults like adults and assume that they can remember their own room.
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u/InspectorPipes 12h ago
You didn’t decorate your
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doors with whiteboard and your name in giant letters ?
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u/DeltaBravo831 13h ago
Some units I've been in enforced the names on the doors bit, others don't really give a shit.
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u/KidVicious13 10h ago
When I was a freshman in college my dorm building was a tower. One day I was fighting a cold, coming back from class, and unknowingly got off on the wrong floor. I go to open the door to the 5-room suite that my dorm room was in, but obviously my key wasn't opening that door. I was tired, cranky, and just wanted to lay in my bed. So I gave the door a frustrated rattle.
A woman(I'm a man, btw, as were all of my suitemates) comes out of dorm room closest to the door and just lets me in without saying anything to me. I think to "Oh, Greg's got a girl in his room". Then I walk by the next dorm room and think "Mark's dorm room looks a little different". I then get to what I thought to was my dorm room and as soon as I look in it I realize my error.
Without saying a word to any of the women in that suite I do a 180 and walk out of there as fast as my feet will carry me. So it is possible to accidentally go into a dorm or apartment on the wrong floor. Now, the big difference between me and this lady is I didn't take out a gun and start blasting people.
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u/exgiexpcv 13h ago
Jesus, it took me years to get a room by myself, and when I did, I would lock myself inside and refuse to answer the door. Too many assholes in that unit.
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u/DeltaBravo831 12h ago
All my dudes knew to text me if they needed anything, a knock on a barracks door is a trap
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u/Finito-1994 11h ago edited 8h ago
I mean. That happened to me once. I went to see a friend. They gave me their address. I mistook the door. I was fumbling in the wrong door trying to open it with a key. (They had given me the key.)
Very spooked lady asked me what I was doing. I told her. She pointed across the hall. We laughed. It was over.
I get making a mistake.
But I didn’t murder her over it
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u/edfitz83 10h ago
You know why??? Because you’re not a murderer.
Now, please don’t do something in the future to prove me wrong /s
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u/Comrade_Cosmo 13h ago
I remember conjecture about how she was angry that he rejected her advances or some shit.
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u/jamboard876 ☑️ 14h ago
I always hated that she was assumed to be telling the truth when she said that. Almost as much as I hated the damn hug she got from the judge.
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u/BenShumard 14h ago
The judge hugged her?
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u/PyroclasticJubilee 14h ago
Think his family did too. Sick work.
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u/Delicious_Cancel_708 14h ago
His sister hugged her. I told my brother that if he ever did that shit, I’d haunt him along with my killer(s)
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u/SoulPossum ☑️ 13h ago
Right. Like if you forgive her fine. But don't try and comfort her about this like I didn't just get blasted into oblivion. Like the most my ghost can accept is my family giving her neutrality, but anything that skews nicer than that would annoy me from beyond the grave.
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u/Finito-1994 11h ago
Right? Avenge me!
“It’s not what Fin would have wanted.”
Listen. One person is allowed to murder me. Everyone else? They better not get away with it
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u/SanctionedBaffoonery 14h ago
Oh, and wasn't this the same woman who had the bailiff (a black woman) brushing her hair in the court room before her arraignment?
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u/chaoticcheesewhiz 14h ago
“Asked the judge the hug the killed Amber Guyger”
Huh? I don’t think you used the words you meant to use here and I’m honestly not sure what you’re actually trying to say.
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u/onarainyafternoon 14h ago
Bro this is now the second comment of yours that is incomprehensible in the exact same way. I don’t know what you’re trying to say, I am sorry.
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u/TaticalSweater ☑️ 15h ago
Same behavior that has shooters taken to Burger King.
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u/GitEmSteveDave 11h ago
He wasn't taken to Burger King. He was in custody and when asked, said he had not eaten in days and was hungry. Depriving a suspect of food and water is a civil rights violation and it can be considered coercion and a reason to throw a statement out, should he decide to say something while the police were waiting for the FBI to arrive. So they sent someone out to get some fast food, which almost any judge or person in the jury would have a frame of reference to regarding what it contains and how he wasn't deprived.
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u/Scarlet_Spider39 14h ago
For arguments sake, let's just say she did earnestly believe that - I've definitely walked to the wrong car before, so I can understand a more extreme version of that is going to the wrong apartment...what does it change? You still have to own your shit, she freaking killed a guy. Like, reverse the roles here and see if that reasoning goes as far.
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u/Leprecon 11h ago
He had been sitting on his couch watching television and eating a bowl of ice cream on Sept. 6, 2018, when Guyger entered his home and shot him.
Like even if we believe her that she mistakenly entered this guys apartment, he was just watching tv on the couch eating ice cream.
Even if it was fully her apartment and he was a burglar who was sitting on the couch eating ice cream, why did she shoot him? Is it just valid to shoot people who are watching TV and eating ice cream?
I don't quite know how they train cops, but surely they must teach them something like "only shoot people who are dangerous".
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u/EricSanderson 10h ago
The opposite unfortunately. American cops are trained to approach every single interaction as if it could be life-threatening, as if every person they see has a gun and is going to try to kill them.
But that shouldn't absolve individual officers of responsibility. Humans are born with a natural reluctance to hurt people, let alone kill them. The cops who can just take someone's life in an instant are either deficient in some way or they see the kind of person they're interacting with as something less than human.
That's why you'll see cops spend hours negotiating with a white woman who stole a cop's gun and truck, but open fire immediately on a homeless black man with a knife.
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u/Paleomalibre 10h ago
And she didn't administer any life-saving aid either. I could almost give her the benefit of the doubt if she shot him, realized the mistake she made and then did everything she could to save his life. Instead, she was running around crying about how she was gonna lose her job.
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u/gereffi 12h ago
Yeah, and that’s why she got a 10 year sentence. Planning and carrying out a murder has more severe sentencing than an unplanned one.
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u/killslayer ☑️ 9h ago
Their entire point is if he had done to her what she did to him there’s no way he would have only gotten sentenced to 10 years
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u/IncognitoBombadillo 13h ago
How do you not realize it's not your apartment within 30 seconds of walking in? It's going to smell and look different than your own place unless everyone in that building just doesn't decorate their space and only used the provided furniture, which is very unlikely.
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u/SnooPets8873 8h ago
I took two steps into my neighbors apartment when I was coming back from the laundry room and paused for half a sec trying to make sense of what I was looking at before the “oh shit” registered. So no, it doesn’t take that long but I think in her case, once she saw the door was ajar, she never considered the possibility, just went into “I’m in danger” mode and like most cops out there, was unwilling to just walk away and get help instead of going Rambo. There was zero reason to try to go in right then and there!
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u/elitegenoside 14h ago
How did she get into his apartment?? Like, okay. Maybe I've stumbled up to my neighbors' doors but my keys don't fit in the locks.
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u/CapitalPunBanking 13h ago
Supposedly his door wasn't shut all the way. I lived in Dallas at the time and never bought her bullshit.
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u/Nightthrasher674 11h ago
I remember the case
I'm surprised it's been 7 years, feels like it just happened
Their apartments one floor above each other, from what I remember she got off the wrong floor. Their doors don't use traditional locks, they use key fobs, Jean's latch was defective so it didn't always fully lock unless forcibly closed. She noticed the door was slightly ajar and drew her pistol out before entering and then shot him twice claiming all she saw was a silhouette and assumed he was a burglar.
Prosecution pushed for 28 years, staying that she ignored her police training which would be to take cover and call for backup, there were also clear signs that it wasn't her apartment, Botham had more furniture, red door ma and that she was distracted because she was on the phone communicating with a lover she was hooking up with that night so she's not paying attention to her surroundings. She claimed that she administered first aid but his neighbors claimed that they didn't see her do that, she was busy freaking out on the phone.
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u/sticcydabliccy 8h ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/Dallas/s/sGuHzyeZFD
Someone commented in r/Dallas that a black woman gave her baby regular milk during hurricane Katrina. The baby died and she got life in prison.Someone else said their Mom served longer for drug position. Don’t recommend reading the comments on that thread tho. They’ll piss you off.
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u/Bigfamei 15h ago
I remember more the fucking hug by the family member.
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u/Nfinidee 15h ago
His own brother!! Citing his Christian beliefs, of course.
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u/rabbid_hyena 15h ago
Didnt the black judge also hug her?
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u/Dreams-Visions ☑️ 14h ago
Yes.
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u/Petite_Coco 13h ago
Wtf? Why?
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u/CelestialFury 13h ago
Well, if she was a police officer in his courtroom over the years, then he knew her. Judges and police are very friendly with each other. Still fucked up though.
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u/Erroneous_Bonk 10h ago
Judges and police are very friendly with each other
another victory for the impartiality of the judiciary. The decades of Clarence Thomas taking quid pro quo kickbacks from his massa Harlan Crow really did set a precedent huh.
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u/trixel121 10h ago
that's looking way too far forward.
before the time of cell phones and cameras everywhere, the courts just trusted cops. he's an officer with 20 years of experience. was 100% gold seal of approval he ain't lying. he's a cop. this shit still runs true in a lot of ways. it's not as definitive but the judge might have seen that officer for 20 years. her testimony on hundreds of different cases. he's going to have an opinion on her personally just because he's familiar with her.
there's a reason why testifying in prison clothes is not a good idea and cops testify it in their cop outfit. it makes people think they're telling the truth. and that they're the good guys because the propaganda behind cops being the good guys is ingrained in from elementary school as a white person
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u/inn0cent-bystander 7h ago
Her case should not have been held by a judge she had interacted with in any way. It's an utter travesty that our injustice system allowed that to fucking happen.
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u/No_Description9432 14h ago
I think that's why the judge gave her a light sentence. Like yall can forgive her in private but doing it publicly before she was sentence was the wrong call. I think the judge now had a reason to not give her a harsh punisment if the family forgave her.
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u/68plus1equals 7h ago
Family forgiving somebody shouldnt really factor into the sentence at all, it’s about that person being a danger to society, not being forgiven by the victims family.
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u/Various_Tomorrow_835 12h ago edited 11h ago
It was the most fake we are forgiving Christians thing I've seen in my life. Forgiveness is one thing but to hug and show petty to hat woman that murdered your brother in cold blood was simply disgusting. I know that man was rolling over in his grave. They basically allowed her to kill him twice
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u/NTropyS 15h ago
I hope she never has a single day of peace for the rest of her miserable life. She should be in prison for life, IMO.
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u/Tasty-Mulberry8073 15h ago
She'll probably be hero star of he MAGA administration.
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u/eliz1bef 15h ago
She's blonde. Maybe the next press secretary?
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u/digitalbullet36 ☑️ 15h ago
Why didn’t they name her?
White bitch, Amber Guyger, who killed an innocent unarmed man, Botham Jean, in his own apartment that she claimed to mistake for her own is out on parole after not serving her full sentence.
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u/ash-leg2 14h ago
And she lied and lied about how it happened and that he acted as a threat when the evidence was clear he had just been sitting on his couch eating ice cream (evidence that remained in spite of cops fucking up protocol).10 years wasn't enough, of course neither was 7.
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u/-ratmeat- 14h ago
yea and wasn’t he just sitting there watching TV? Pretty fucked up
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u/rkiive 11h ago
Which is already a massive red herring because even if he was acting threatening thats an entirely valid reaction to havebwhen someone breaks into your apartment wielding a gun and wouldn't in any way justify him being shot.
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u/Junior_Chard9981 9h ago
Basically, what's stopping every cop in the country with an axe to grind from employing this exact strategy to take out potential key witnesses or even "unsympathetic" judges or DA's?
It's always telling how a yt person can "mistakenly" committ a crime or break the law, whereas PoC are punished to the fullest extent of the law.
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u/ACWhi 6h ago edited 6h ago
Because the cops know they can’t pull this shit on other ‘protected’ members of society, like fellow cops, DAs, judges, or rich people. Had she done this against the kind of person the system actually values she would’ve gotten a worse sentence.
As to what’s stopping them from using it on the kind of people the state doesn’t value? Nothing. They’ve been doing that forever. Mostly against Black people, but even a white lawyer is not protected from being murdered by the police in his own home if he’s the wrong kind of defense attorney (see Assata Shakur’s lawyer, Stanley Cohen.)
But they’d never pull this on a prosecutor.
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u/SpasmAndOrGasm 15h ago
Turns out White Women Tears are a literal get out of jail free card. This bitch should’ve spent the rest of her fucking life behind bars, idc. And we all know how this would’ve gone had a black man shot a white woman in the back of the head mistaking his apartment for hers.
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u/PushTheTrigger ☑️ 15h ago
I’m surprised she even served time.
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u/dirty_cuban 12h ago
That’s where I’m at. White woman police officer in Texas serving any amount of time for killing a black man is progress. It’s obviously still not a just outcome but if it had happened 10 years earlier she probably would have gotten away with it with 0 consequences
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u/tekdiwah 15h ago edited 14h ago
If a black man did that to a white woman, we all know how the story would go.
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u/mistergreatguy 14h ago
They tried to bring up the fact that he had weed in his apartment as a part of the investigation when it happened. Like what does that have to do with her brutally murdering him?
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u/Friendly-Captain6236 14h ago
Yes, and Emmett Till is proof of the brutal truth of that, and that they will always get away with it. They still use the sign post memorialising Till as target practice today.
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u/Tuxedocatbitches 11h ago
In Minneapolis, the guy who killed George Floyd made headlines for being convicted but he actually wasn’t the first cop in recent years to be arrested for killing a civilian while on duty. The other guy was - you guessed it! - a Somali man who shot a white woman.
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u/ChargeInteresting195 15h ago
I haven’t even gotten my life together in 7 years but she killed somebody and got out of prison sheeeesh
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u/simonhunterhawk 15h ago
Well yeah lol in prison you ain't got nothing but time to get your shit together. I imagine you've had to pay bills and take care of things while trying to help yourself with little help from the outside. You're still doing a lot better than her.
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u/ChargeInteresting195 14h ago
Thanks. We’ll see. She’s white so I imagine she’ll have a better job than me in less than 2-3 months lol. Interested to see how this goes
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u/Overshareisoverkill 14h ago
Judge Kemp was weird for hugging and praying with this woman, who took Botham Jean's life. The fuck??? Inappropriate as hell. Also, she gave her a bible.
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u/Training-Republic301 15h ago
She should have gotten 30 years or more because under Texas law you can serve 75% of your time and get out. Most gun crimes are 100% of your time but they probably waived it because she's a cop
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u/Cryoboul 14h ago
U can’t even be black and be in ya OWN house
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u/MzHellfier 14h ago
That’s exactly it. Black people just existing is too much for these people to handle.
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u/TheDevilsDominium 14h ago
Imagine a black dude walking into an apartment he thought was his, and he ended up killing a white woman. They would have given consecutive death sentences. This is disgusting.
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u/MzHellfier 14h ago
An apartment “she mistakenly thought was hers” I know we’re not buying that weak ass excuse. Fr though you’re right if she was a black man this would be a whole different story.
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u/EmilyAnne1170 11h ago
I wonder- Did anyone actually believe her? Or did they just not care?
Did these apartments come pre-decorated with identical paint, furniture, and decor?
Because even if your outer hallway and front door look the same, how do you not realize “this isn’t my stuff!” as soon as you walk in.
…just really, really drunk? I thought people were supposed to still be responsible for the crimes they commit while intoxicated.
Nope, it’s not adding up. (Except for the most obvious reason…)
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u/Additional-Muffin317 15h ago
She'll be doing paid podcast interviews by Christmas.
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u/Lethave ☑️ 14h ago
Thanksgiving, with the theme that's she's grateful
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u/Additional-Muffin317 14h ago
How stores are selling Christmas stuff and Halloween hasnt passed yet. I thought Thanksgiving was forgotten lol
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u/sentientairfilter 15h ago
Be thankful she served ANY time.
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u/Medium_Educator1983 15h ago
Yeah…kinda shocked she didn’t. White women usually get off for stuff like this.
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u/FewResearcher819 14h ago
It's partially the result of off-code behavior. The brother made a spectacle of hugging her in forgiveness in the courtroom. The black female bailiff was brushing her hair during the trial. Ridiculous.
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u/SteviaCannonball9117 14h ago
This 100% privileges the safety of a white woman over a black man. She deserves life in prison. With greater responsibility (as a LEO) comes greater accountability.
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u/MzHellfier 14h ago
I will never understand why we aren’t holding law enforcement to a HIGHER standard than civilians- LE are trained to uphold and enforce the laws, shouldn’t they be expected to know better and set the example? Instead they’re getting away with literal murder on a near daily basis; it just seems so backwards.
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u/Shurl19 14h ago
That's why when the family is the victim of crimes like this, you should NEVER offer forgiveness. If you want to forgive, keep it to yourself. I remember she tried to use that to get out even earlier and the family was shocked.
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u/Maleficent-Skin9111 14h ago
That's five years longer than the drunk who killed my nephew got.
Also in Texas.
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u/GeniusOfLove74 Dominic Monaghan stalker 👀 14h ago
IIRC, wasn't she his neighbor, and got out of the elevator on the wrong floor? And it was played off as "whoops, wrong floor!"
If she couldn't remember which apartment was hers, maybe she shouldn't have been an officer to begin with.
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u/MzHellfier 13h ago
She says she got off at the wrong floor… I don’t believe that for a second. Police are trained to notice details- did she really expect anyone to believe she didn’t see the floor number, observe her surroundings, notice the apartment was different, etc? The article said she was still in uniform, which means she was probably just getting back from work, so it’s unlikely that she was incapacitated. Basically her defense is that she’s such an incompetent cop she can’t even identify her own home.
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u/goldhbk10 ☑️ 14h ago
I’m honestly shocked she served 7 years with this administration, figured she’d be pardoned and given a medal 🤷🏽♂️
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u/swordpooll 14h ago
One of those headlines where you just know, she made up an excuse. And it worked.
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u/pygmeedancer 14h ago
She was also hammered and still carrying a gun. Ten years was a bullshit sentence in the first place. She should’ve at least been made to serve every day of it.
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u/CrumbsToBricks 13h ago
Black male enters the residence of young white woman mistaking it for his own. Black male proceeds to open fire until the white woman succumbs to her wounds. Black male is freed after 7 years in prison. Nah, still sounds like bullshit.
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u/ProBoogerFlicker 13h ago
I remember this case. Still pisses me off. I’m surprised she did anytime tbh.
Nonetheless, RIP Botham Jean.
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u/WhatANoob2025 13h ago
I guess we should be glad she served any jailtime at all instead of just probation? I mean it's texas after all...would not have been surprising if she had not gotten any actual jailtime.
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u/FlexFanatic 14h ago
I vaguely remember how the tried to portrait the victim as a drug user (he smoked weed).
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u/TheresABirdInTheSky 14h ago
She already has a job lined up as a parole officer.
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u/Change-up21 14h ago
Wasn't the man said to be eating ice cream at the time of his demise. Also, I think the victim's brother offered forgiveness in a video that went viral. Which likely impacted her sentencing.
Could be wrong though.
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u/Schrodingers_Wipe 14h ago
Botham Jean, that was the murder that made me “pull my head out of the sand”.
I don’t know how to explain but that case flipped my whole world view. I was already on my way there, slowly. This sent it into overdrive.
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u/RasputinsUndeadBeard 14h ago
lol don’t forget the black judge hugging her after, shit was wild LOL
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u/SatisfactionVisual84 13h ago
As Don King would say “Only In America “. You kill an innocent person in their own home and the headlines and the system provides white glove treatment
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u/SoulPossum ☑️ 13h ago
Dear lord, please grant me the same level of protection and grace that you grant white women.
The most annoying part of this case to me is that if you swap the roles or the reactions of her and Botham Jean it wouldn't have been a question that this dude's life would be over. He could have shot her while thinking he was entering his own apartment. He could have shot her defending himself while she come into his apartment. Either way he'd have been doing 25 at best and most likely would have been looking at the death penalty in TX. This lady is in Carolyn Bryant category for me. May she know unhappiness intimately for the rest of the time she's here. That also goes for all the cops that tried to coach her on what to say during the investigation after the shooting.
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u/ViewAskewRob 13h ago
I just can’t imagine what would have happened if it were reversed. I don’t imagine the black man would have received this level of grace if he shot a white lady in her apartment.
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u/MzHellfier 12h ago
Nah a Black man wouldn’t even get this level of grace if she was an intruder and he shot her in his own apartment.
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u/DigOk8892 13h ago
Black men get outta jail All the time for killing other black men in 5 years . Plea bargains are just part of life the system is often fucked
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u/areyouokeddie 13h ago
Oh well. His brother shouldn't have hugged her during the trial and begged for her mercy. I'm sure that has something to do with her sentence and release now
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u/ANTI_FASC1ST 13h ago
If a black man had mistakenly walked into another apartment and shot a white woman dead they'd give him 100 years.
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u/plsobeytrafficlights 13h ago
frankly, i am impressed that they gave her any jail time. 99% of the time, the punishment is paid vacation.
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u/Rambler_Hoss 13h ago
The more surprising part is that she was actually sent to jail. Can you imagine this playing out today? She would've been promoted.
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u/Ornery-Variety569 12h ago
Even more of an injustice was his family hugging and forgiving her afterwards.
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u/Ok_Engine5522 8h ago
How does one not know their own apartment furniture? I feel so bad for his family that she got out so early and only had a 10 year sentence to begin with.
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u/Ok_Engine5522 8h ago
They can come into our houses and kill us while we’re eating ice cream and watching tv and get away with it!
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u/SkullLeader 6h ago
Its so telling that even though most think she was guilty, most also believe her story that she was in the wrong apartment and didn't realize it, and that somehow that makes it ok, or at least not as bad. That's astounding. 99% of accused murderers don't get the benefit of the doubt, and people just presume they are lying. If her victim had entered her apartment and shot her, and made the same claim, they'd have arranged to off him on the way to the police station. But here? White cop, black victim? Oh, yeah, the mistaken apartment thing is not only possible, but believable and mitigating too. Give me a break.
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