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Texas Jury Finds Amber Guyger Guilty of Murder
After less than 24 hours of deliberation, a 12-person jury has found ex-Dallas Police officer Amber Guyger guilty of murdering her neighbor, 26-year-old Botham Jean. Jean was unarmed and eating a bowl of ice cream in his apartment when Guyger, off-duty but in uniform, barged into his home and fatally shot him on Sept. 6,…
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Virginia Man Sues Local Paper, Reporter for Accurately Reporting His Family’s Slaveholding History
Here’s the thing about descending from a “First Family of Virginia”—there’s going to be an abundance of receipts about your family’s slaveholding past. One Charlottesville man, apparently, couldn’t abide the publication of those receipts and is suing a local newspaper and professor for disclosing his family’s slaveholding past—and having the sheer gall to insinuate that…
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Judge in Amber Guyger Trial Just Made It Easier for the Former Dallas Cop to Be Acquitted of Murder
Closing arguments wrapped up Monday in the trial of Amber Guyger, the former Dallas Police officer who fatally shot her black neighbor after walking into his apartment last year. But on the trial’s final day, Judge Tammy Kemp made two key decisions that could determine whether the jury ultimately finds Guyger guilty of murder. As…
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Mississippi Police Shot a Bullet Into the Back of His Head. A City Attorney Is Arguing It Doesn’t Matter Since He’s Not a Citizen
Mississippi police should have never been at Ismael Lopez’s door. But in executing a warrant for a man wanted for domestic assault in July 2017, police went to the wrong address, arriving at Lopez’s home instead of the suspect’s. Lopez would not survive the encounter with police, who never announced themselves at the door. He…
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'I Hate Myself Every Day': Amber Guyger Testifies About the Night She Killed Botham Jean
Amber Guyger took the stand in her own defense Friday morning, occasionally breaking down in tears as she recalled what happened the night she walked into her neighbor Botham Jean’s apartment and shot him dead in his living room. Her testimony marks the first public comments the 31-year-old former Dallas Police officer has made since…
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Signs of Hate: ‘OK’ Hand Gesture and Dylann Roof’s Bowl-Cut Considered New Symbols of White Supremacy
It started out as a way to troll the so-called liberal media, borne out of alt-right posts on message board 4chan. Now, according to Jewish civil rights organization the Anti-Defamation League, the “OK” hand symbol has gone from prank to a hate symbol associated with white supremacy. The gesture joins 35 other symbols added to…
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Medical Examiner Testifies Botham Jean Was Likely Bent Over or on His Back When Amber Guyger Shot Him
The Dallas County medical examiner who performed Botham Jean’s autopsy told jurors on Wednesday that the bullet that killed him entered in a “downward motion,” indicating that Jean’s body was positioned below former Dallas Police officer’s gun when she fatally shot him. Dr. Chester Gwin could not say definitively where Guyger or Jean were positioned…
