*Judge Tammy Kemp made a spectacle out of herself during the Amber Guyger murder trial when she gave the ex-cop and convicted killer a hug and a Bible after she was sentenced to ten years for fatally shooting her unarmed neighbor Botham Jean in his own apartment last year.
Kemp is now making the media rounds in an attempt to explain why she was compelled to show sympathy to Guyger.
“Following my own convictions, I could not refuse that woman a hug. I would not,” Kemp told the Associated Press. “And I don’t understand the anger. And I guess I could say if you profess religious beliefs and you are going to follow them, I would hope that they not be situational and limited to one race only.”
In an interview with CNN, Kemp noted once again that it would have been rude if she gave the Jean family hugs and not Guyger.
“Frankly, I don’t think I would be getting this criticism if Miss Guyger were a Black woman. I hate that we limit our compassion to one race,” she said.
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Many believe the judge acted unprofessionally by hugging a murderer, and Black Twitter dubbed her: Judge Mammy Tammy.
We previously reported… after delivering a victim impact statement to Guyger, Brandt Jean, the victim’s younger brother, asked Judge Kemp if he could hug Botham’s killer.
“If you truly are sorry, I know I can speak for myself, I forgive you. I know if you go to God and ask him, he will forgive you,” said Brandt during his statement.
Kemp granted the young man’s request, and he and Guyger embraced. Judge Kemp also hugged Guyger and gave her a bible.
“This is your job,” the judge said, opening the book and mentioning John 3:16. “You just need a tiny mustard seed of faith,” the judge said. “You start with this.”
Judge Tammy Kemp hugged Amber Guyger after handing down her joke of a sentence for MURDERING Botham Jean.
I would love to see how she reacted after passing down harsher sentences to people of color for lesser ctimes.
And yes, it IS about race.
Kiss my ass.
— Jay Dav-O (@ChocnessMonsta) October 2, 2019
Kemp explained to CNN, “She did tell me she’d bring my Bible back in 10 years.”
According to The Washington Post, legal experts said the hug was “not only rare but inappropriate.”
President and Director-Counsel of LDF (NAACP Legal Defense and Educational) Sherrilyn Ifill wrote on Twitter, “A judge is not a an average citizen. She is not the victim. She is not the prosecution (technically ‘the peopl’). She must, especially in a case that arouses passion and conflict like this one, stand for impartial justice. She may speak words from the bench. This is too much.”
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