I remember hearing about Amber Guyger who was involved in a shooting of an innocent black man who she thought was a burglar in her home but it ended up that she walked into the wrong apartment and shot Botham Jean two times in his own living room. Currently she is on trial for murder which makes sense and they have uncovered many unsettling racist texts that were sent by Guyger. She went on the stand saying that the reason she shot was because she was scared and it had nothing to do with his race but these texts assume other wise. Some texts include Guyger jokes about Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, mocks her black colleagues and discusses a dog that her friend warns “may be racist.”“It’s okay.. I’m the same,” Guyger wrote back about the dog". She also texted one of her coworkers about her other black coworkers saying that "she was with five black officers right now and I'm not being racist but damn they just have different way of working and it shows". This is really disturbing to me because this women is just one of example a blatantly racist people on the police force that already have negative views on African Americans making it dangerous for them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/02/amber-guyger-offensive-texts-botham-jean-murder/
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