I agree that the sentence is too light, but are you saying that the brother is forgiving her because she's white and that if she wasn't, then he wouldn't?
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Botham Jean's brother embraces Amber Guyger after she was sentenced 10 years for the murder of his brother
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Yep.
Don't have a problem with anyone with the ability to forgive people they have every right to loathe, I have a problem with people expecting that of every single one of the oppressed.
The brother choosing to do this is whatever, that's his choice. What's fucked up is the framing that the media has been choosing to take with it. That this guy is somehow inherently a better human than someone would (rightfully) be incredibly mad that the murderer of their loved one got a weak sentence.
Better man than me. though I find nothing wrong in forgiveness I just makes me rolls my eyes that we have to show a level of grace/restraint/forgiveness that is definitely not given to us in situations like this.
What? No. If that's what he needs to do to make peace with this, then that's for him to do.
I am going to criticize the fact that she got off with a light sentence for murder and that even the fucking Judge hugged her over this. I'm also going to call out how much people are focusing on him forgiving her over the miscarriage of justice that the sentence is.
The compassion showed by Brandt Jean is beyond heart warming. There is no reason to carry hate in your heart for something that cannot be changed.
Long and short of it.
My first take was that this made him a "better man" than me. But no, it just makes him a different kind of man. I do not applaud him for this, but I'm all for it if it makes everything better for him.
It's impressive that he could forgive so.
However, she did coldly kill a man and showed no real remorse except for what was going to happen to her.
Makes me think she didn't deserve such forgiveness.
However, she did coldly kill a man and showed no real remorse except for what was going to happen to her.
Makes me think she didn't deserve such forgiveness.
I dunno
If he blew up and lost his mind in the courtroom i would have been even more empathetic
I cant even wrap my mind around him choosing forgiveness but im not about to drag him for it
She shot the man, then told him to get up like he was faking, and was worried about her job while he lay dying.
No, he's forgiving her because it's probably the best way he can deal with what happened himself. I don't agree with it myself, but that's for him to decide for himself.
Forgiveness is generally seen as a virtue. Also, you can forgive someone even as you are justifiably angry. You can forgive and at the same time fight against injustice.
She deserved the max and it is sad that the judge didnt mete out a fair sentence for murder.
We are still a long way from where we need to be. Miles and miles away
No, if it was an accident it would have been manslaughter. She's a murderer. She was convicted for first degree and everything.
Oh boy... Imma let someone else handle this one. But yes, she is full on racist. From a racist background. From a racist family. With a whole lot of deleted racist text messages discussed in court. With a whole lot of racist Pinterest posts discussed in court.
I think that's mainly because this thread is about that particular aspect of the story, while there are other threads about the trial itself.
Evidence showed Jean was sitting down eating ice cream when he was shoot, and was still fighting for his life while she called everyone but 911
Nah, the media is focusing mostly on this aspect too.
It's extremely frustrating.
She was shown to be a pretty consistent racist before the shooting.
He's free to forgive her if he wants but as a christian, I sure as hell wouldn't have forgiven her, especially after she showed her racist ass online, and her bosses tried to slander his dead brother with drug accusations. And with her only getting 10 years....well justice comes sooner or later in all kinds of forms. When she gets out, hopefully she'll spend the rest of her pathetic existence scrubbing floors for pennies.
She killed him without even second guessing it or hesitation.. a fucking guy eating ice cream and watching TV in his own apartment
All because she thought she was entering her own apartment
Didnt even take the time to assess the situation before firing... Which is fucking insane since she's a trained police officer
There was no excuse for this and we seriously need to address racism, gun violence and police training in this fucking country
shooting and someone and them dying isn't an accident, even if it was her house (apartment)
and from what i understand, how she acted after the altercation is why people think she is of bad character
pretty much, if you are acting the way you think god wants you to act, then you aren't actually acting as a moral agent, you're just following the moral proclamations of authority
The ice cream was still cold when people finally showed up. He didn't even get a chance to enjoy much if any.
Ten years for first degree murder? That's clear white privilege. Yikes.
I foresee this moment existing as the main takeaway/talking point from this entire ordeal. It's cool he did something "right", but it's going to overshadow everything the murderer and other people have done wrong
Yeah i didnt know the sentencing when i first entered and holy shit thats awful
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10 years for the murder of his brother. It's in the title mate...
While I doubt she walked into the apartment looking to murder someone, it was obviously not an accident.
The fact that she was so willing to kill someone who wasn't threatening her at all and then after shooting him think about saving her job before saving his life means there's something seriously fucked up with her.
What does it accomplish, especially with the shit media we have?
A cop getting any kind of comeuppance is a win for me even if it could be better.
Nobody asked or expected him to show grace. That he did is what makes everything so shocking and attention worthy.