On Sept. 6, 2018, Amber Guyger walked into the home of Botham Jean and murdered him.
The 31-year-old Dallas police officer surely never planned to kill anyone when she came home from work that night, still in uniform. She entered Jean’s apartment believing it to be her own. Once inside, and upon finding someone else there, she drew her gun and shot him. It would have been a grossly disproportionate response to the circumstance even if her mistaken belief had proven true. Jean, unarmed and eating vanilla ice cream on his couch, was a threat to no one. To make matters worse, prosecutors argued that Guyger also subsequently failed in her duty to resuscitate her victim. As he lay dying, she was texting her partner.
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