No Justice and No Piece? Botham Jean's Family Wants Dallas to Pay the $100M Judgement it Got Against the Judgement Proof White Cop who Murdered Him- but the City Wasn’t a Defendant in the Case

The family of Botham Shem Jean has filed a lawsuit seeking to force the City of Dallas to pay nearly $100 million in damages, nearly eight years after Jean was fatally shot in his apartment by former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger, according to court records.

Guyger was found guilty of murder in October 2019, and a civil trial in November 2024 resulted in Jean's family being awarded damages. Guyger appealed her murder conviction in 2020, but it was upheld by a Texas appeals court in 2021.

The suit, filed in early March, claims the city tried to cover staffing gaps by assigning officers to overtime work, leading to fatigue and increased stress. The suit notes that Guyger had clocked out from a nearly 14-hour shift on Sept. 6, 2018, the night she killed Jean. The suit also said she had worked more than 44 hours in the four days leading up to the shooting, including spending a day with the SWAT team.

Guyger, as the suit recalls, mistakenly parked on the fourth floor of the parking garage attached to the apartment community Jean and her both lived in after that shift; Guyger lived on the third floor, while Jean lived on the fourth floor. She mistakenly entered Jean's apartment and, believing him to be an intruder, fatally shot him.

Why hasn't the city paid?

The family's suit claims the city government "refused to take responsibility" for Jean's death. The suit said the city had a legal obligation to defend Guyger and indemnify her in the case. However, the government 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. [MORE]

Ms. Guyger was fired by the Dallas Police Department after the shooting. She was found guilty of murder but only sentenced to 10 years in prison by a wack Black judge.