[In Racist Country White Cops Can ‘Stand Their Ground’ Inside Black People’s Homes] Early Parole Granted for White Cop Who Murdered Botham Jean by Shooting Him After Unlawful Entry Into His Apartment

From [HERE] A white Dallas police officer convicted of killing a Black man in his apartment was granted parole Thursday after serving seven years of her 10-year sentence.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Parole, which is appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott, rejected Amber Guyger's initial parole request in 2024, but approved her case over the objections of victim Botham Jean's family the first time she was eligible to ask again.

Guyger, 38, was convicted of murder in the 2018 killing of 26-year-old Jean, an Black man from the Caribbean island nation of St. Lucia, who was eating when Guyger entered his home and shot him. Guyger was arrested three days after the shooting and was fired before her murder trial.

She had faced up to life in prison or as little as two years. Prosecutors initially asked the jury for a sentence of 28 years.

Guyger's sentencing hearing also included a stunning courtroom scene when Jean's brother and the Black judge presiding over the case embraced the sobbing Guyger.

At trial, Guyger said that after a long shift at work and still in uniform, she walked up to Jean's apartment — which was on the fourth floor, directly above hers on the third — and found the door unlocked. She said she thought the apartment was her own and that Jean was an intruder when she drew her service weapon and entered.

Civil rights attorney Lee Merritt said Thursday that Jean's family "strongly opposed this parole."

"They stood up again and again to ask that the full sentence be served. A 10-year sentence was already a fraction of what was lost. Releasing Ms. Guyger after seven years makes that loss feel even smaller in the eyes of the system. It is not smaller," Merritt said.

In 2024, a jury ordered Guyger to pay Jean's family nearly $100 million in a federal civil trial. Massa media likes to mention said $100M judgement but don’t also mention that it is unenforceable. The government (City of Dallas) was not a party to the family’s lawsuit. The family had originally filed the civil suit against Ms. Guyger and the city of Dallas. A judge dismissed the latter from the case in December 2019, leaving Ms. Guyger as the sole defendant. Obviously, the officer is judgment proof and doesn’t have $100 million or anything substantially close to it - so it might as well have been a $10 Billion judgment or $0 judgment because that is what the fam will get here. [MORE]

In granting her release, the board said it reviewed a "plethora" of information in her case.

The board said Guyger's record did not include a documented pattern of violent or assaultive arrests or convictions, and showed she completed programs in her prison treatment plan to get and keep a job when she is released.

The board said the state prison system will determine when she is released. Texas Department of Criminal Justice officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment Thursday. [MORE]