Jury Orders Ex-Officer Amber Guyger to Pay $98M for Fatal Shooting of Botham Jean

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*A jury has ordered former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger to pay $98 million in damages for the fatal 2018 shooting of Botham Jean in his home.  The award includes $60 million in punitive damages and $38 million in compensatory damages for Jean’s family. Guyger, currently serving a 10-year prison sentence for murder, did not […]

Amber Guyger Denied Parole After Botham Jean Murder Conviction

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*Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger, who was convicted in the fatal shooting of Botham Jean in his apartment in 2018, was denied parole last week. “I wasn’t expecting a response so quickly. We were interviewed on Monday by the parole commissioner, the lead commissioner. It feels like a load lifted,” Allisa Charles-Findley, sister of […]

Why Do Republicans Want to Defund the Police? | Video

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*Last week wasNational Police Week. Local law enforcement departments celebrated people in law enforcement around the country, including all the alphabet boys and girls. Celebrating the FBI, CIA, and DOJ. But while some people applauded the “alphabeters,” others in Congress are talking about reducing the budgets of the Department of Justice. That means reducing the […]

Convicted Murderer of BLM Protester Could Get A Pardon | WATCH

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*The criminal justice system is only as fair as the people in charge of it. And the people in charge of it – mostly white men who are politicians and judges – operate not with fairness, but with favoritism. The latest example of a shady politician is Texas Governor Greg Abbott. Abbott said he plans […]

Who Killed Derontae Martin? – The Journal of Steffanie Rivers | VIDEO

*The number of Black and Brown people dying under shady circumstances is growing. Many of those deaths are being called suicides, even though evidence doesn’t support those conclusions. The reality is many of those so-called ‘suicides’ are modern-day lynchings committed by racist White people protected by a criminal justice system run by other racist White […]

Amber Guyger: Ex-Dallas Cop to Appeal Botham Jean Murder Conviction Next Week

*Former Dallas police officer #AmberGuyger, is headed to appeal her 10-year sentence for killing #BothamJean in 2018 next week. As we previously reported, Amber was found guilty of shooting and killing Botham after she got off the elevator on the wrong floor and walked into his apartment, and mistook him as an intruder. According to reports from @cbsdfw […]

Botham Jean Boulevard Unveiled in Front of Dallas Police Department [VIDEO]

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*The family of Botham Jean gathered in Dallas on Saturday for a ceremony to unveil the newly named Botham Jean Boulevard.  Jean was shot in 2018 inside his Dallas apartment by white, female, off-duty police officer Amy Guyger. Guyger claimed she shot Botham because she thought she had entered her own home, and he was […]

The Journal of Steffanie Rivers: Convict Amber Guyger Wants Early Prison Release

 *Amber Guyger, the former Dallas police officer, has been in prison less than a year for murdering her neighbor, Botham Jean. Already she’s trying to scam the system so she can get released early. Her attorneys have asked a judge to reduce her murder charge to criminally negligent homicide! Reduced charges could make Guyger […]

The Journal of Steffanie Rivers: Bully Cops and the Blue Wall of Silence

*It’s been more than two weeks since that video went viral showing the modern-day lynching of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Were it not for protests around the United States and the world demanding arrests of the four policemen involved in his murder there’s no doubt they still would be on duty intimidating and killing somebody […]