Last week, Amber Guyger, a former white police officer, was convicted by a diverse jury of murder for shooting Botham Jean, a black man, in his own apartment last year. The case initially made headlines for being a rare conviction of a police officer in an apparently unjustified shooting, but was quickly overshadowed by Botham’s brother’s, Brandt, victim impact statement.
In it her told her, “I forgive you. If you go to God and ask him, he will forgive you…I love you just like everyone else.… Read more