AMBER GUYGER CASE KEY WITNESS MURDERED AFTER HER GUILTY CONVICTION (JOSHUA BROWN)

AMBER GUYGER CASE KEY WITNESS MURDERED AFTER HER GUILTY CONVICTION (JOSHUA BROWN):

WHITE DALLAS CITY COUNCIL MEMBER LOSES ELECTION AFTER EXPOSING DALLAS POLICE DEPT COVER UP (PHILLIP KINGSTON).

“WE’VE GOT SOME LONG DAYS AHEAD OF US” (DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR).

WE NEED TO PRAY FOR THE USA AND PREPARE FOR NOVEMBER 2020.

DEAR LORD, GIVE US WISDOM & STRATEGIES.


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******* Key Witness in Amber Guyger Murder Case Fatally Shot Days After Emotional Trial Wraps Up


Less than three days after ex-Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was sentenced to 10 years in prison for murdering Botham Jean in his own apartment, a key witness in the case was fatally shot.

Joshua Brown was killed Friday night at a Dallas apartment complex, as confirmed to TIME and originally reported by the Dallas Morning News.

The Dallas Police Department told TIME that law enforcement responded to a report of a shooting at a Dallas apartment complex just after 10:30 p.m. on Friday and found the victim “lying on the ground in the apartment parking lot with multiple gunshot wounds,” but did not identity the victim.

Spokesperson Kimberlee Leach with the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office confirmed to TIME that the victim was Brown.

The victim died from his injuries at Parkland Memorial Hospital, police said in a statement.

Several witnesses had heard gunshots and noticed a silver four-door sedan speeding away from the parking lot, police said.

But authorities did not provide more details about the suspect and noted that no one is currently in custody.

Brown, who was also Jean’s neighbor, testified during Guyger’s trial that he met Jean for the first time the same day that he was shot on Sept. 6, 2018.

After talking in his testimony about how he would hear Jean singing gospel or Drake songs inside his apartment, Brown became emotional and had to take a break from questioning.

Lee Merritt, a civil rights lawyer who represented the Jean family during trial, has spoken extensively on social media about Brown’s death, and said “his murder underscores the reality of the black experience in America.”

“A former athlete turned entrepreneur—Brown lived in constant fear that he could be the next victim of gun violence,” Merritt said, adding that Brown’s mother asked that he “do whatever it takes to get to the bottom of his murder.”

Brown’s death has also elicited concern from politicians. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Sunday that “just when when we caught a glimpse of justice for Botham Jean, much of it feels stolen back with the murder of Joshua Brown.”

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**** Dallas City Council Member On Officer Shooting Investigation: DA ‘Screwing This Up’ (Circa 2018)


DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A Dallas city councilman is demanding 911 calls and any police videos be released in the case involving former officer Amber Guyger’s deadly shooting of Botham Jean in his apartment last month.

Councilman Philip Kingston said he is unhappy with the way the investigation into the Botham Jean shooting is being handled, going so far as to accuse Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson of, “screwing this up.”

Kingston responded to news the DA will not release 911 calls, radio calls or any possible police body cam videos that exist or Amber Guyger’s personnel records during her time as an officer.

The transmissions made by Guyger in the moments after the shooting are key evidence to prove or disprove her story that she mistakenly walked into the wrong apartment directly above hers at the South Side Flats and mistook Botham Jean for a burglar when she shot and killed him.

Kingston told CBS 11 after Wednesday’s city council meeting, it makes the city look bad that nearly a month after the shooting so little information is being released.

He blames Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall and DA Johnson.

“I think the investigation is over and I think we need to start being transparent with the information these decision makers are looking at because they’ve all said we want transparency, we want transparency, we want transparency, but they’re actions are 180 degrees from that,” said Kingston.

CBS11 received a response from the DA’s office which said Kingston’s comments would only fuel the argument for a change of venue in the case if there’s an indictment and trial:

“Case law regarding venue change mandates no pretrial release of evidence that could influence potential jurors and render them unable to return a fair and impartial verdict in any potential criminal trial.

See e.g. Gonzalez v. State, 222 S.W. 3d 446.

This law includes non-disclosure of all of the described.

This potential case should be tried in Dallas County, not some contiguous county where the interests of justice are not as compelling.

The DAs office is following the law in its effort to seek fair and impartial jurors in any potential trial regarding this tragic matter.”

AMBER GUYGER’S TEARS vs BOTHAM JEAN’S FAMILY TEARS (UNEQUAL JUSTICE)

AMBER GUYGER’S TEARS vs BOTHAM JEAN’S FAMILY TEARS:

IF BOTHAM JEAN SHOT AMBER HE WOULD HAVE BEEN SENTENCED TO LIFE.

AMBER’S TEARS WON’T RESURRECT BOTHAM JEAN.

FORGIVENESS DOES NOT ELIMINATE CONSEQUENCES.


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**** This time white tears didn't work: Why Amber Guyger's guilty verdict surprised me


The former Dallas police officer was found guilty of murdering her neighbor Botham Jean in his own apartment

Finally, a cop's white tears didn't work.

Fired Dallas police officer Amber R. Guyger, a white woman who shot and killed her unarmed black neighbor, Botham Shem Jean, was found guilty of murder on the second day of jury deliberations, an all-too-rare instance of the justice system holding police officers accountable for reckless actions.

The guilty verdict shocked me, and not because I’m used to being let down by the juries, grand juries, prosecutors and judges presiding over cops' cases.

It shocked me because Guyger had a weapon stronger than the law on her side; even more powerful than the gun she carried.

Guyger was armed with white tears. And in America, white tears are a source of ultimate power.

White tears helped kill Emmett Till, the 14-year-old black boy accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi back in 1955. 

White tears almost allowed Susan Smith to get away with killing her own kids after claiming that an African American man was the culprit.

And white tears could have ruined the life of an innocent black man in Quincy, Mass, when a white woman said she was assaulted by a black male in his early 20s and only after police reviewed surveillance footage admitted she had made it up. Guyger invoked that power of white tears in court: "I was scared he was going to kill me," she said to the jury.

This time the outcome was justice.
Guyger, 31, lived in the same apartment complex as Jean. 

On September 6, 2018, she entered Jean's apartment, which is on a different floor from hers. She says she thought she was in her apartment.

There she saw Jean eating ice cream, and she says she thought he was an intruder, so she shot him.

Jean died from his injuries in a nearby hospital.

Three days later, Guyger was arrested by Texas Rangers who took over the investigation.

Guyger was initially charged with manslaughter and terminated from the police force. 

After a series of protests, public outrage, and a sorry attempt by the Dallas police department to smear Jean’s reputation as a Christian man, Guyger was charged with murder by a Dallas grand jury.

The disgraced Guyger faced a multiracial and multiethnic jury during her week-long trial that ended Tuesday in that shocking verdict.

Even though it seems like it would have been an open-and-shut case, African Americans know better.

We have seen how often cops continue to enjoy freedom after killing black people, even when the victims posed no threat, had no weapons, and the incidents were even caught on tape.

Freddie Gray, Eric Garner and Michael Brown — just to name a few — had no firearms on them.

They should be alive today and are not. All of their killers walked.

How does this happen? Cops who kill too often earn a get-out-of-jail-free card when they say “I feared for my life and the lives of my fellow officers.”

And Guyger tried it as well, claiming she was afraid Jean was going to kill her — even though by her logic he would have been more justified in shooting, because she had intruded into his apartment.

Guyger got the verdict she deserves, but I'd hold off on celebrating this turn of justice until she's sentenced.

Her conviction carries a sentence from five to 99 years, and she could easily receive a lesser penalty and be home soon. 

And even if she is made to serve decades in prison, an innocent man is dead.

What will Dallas do to prevent another Amber Guyger incident?

Police officers have enormous powers — to take someone's freedom, to take their lives even.

Those powers were granted to Guyger, who then made a colossal, life-ending error in judgment while wielding those powers, with no checks in place to prevent those powers from killing a man.

According to Guyger, she was too tired to recognize her own home that night.

And yet she had enough cognitive control to fire deadly shots at a living being. 

Jean had no weapon and, once again, was in his own home; and yet Guyger felt shooting him was her only option.

That's a serious issue — of training, of recruitment, of assessment — that goes deeper than one man's killing, and needs to be aggressively handled by the Dallas Police Department.