Extraordinary act of mercy: Brother of Botham Jean hugs and forgives Guyger after 10-yr. sentence imposed

By artappraiser on Wed, 10/02/2019 - 6:26pm |

BREAKING: In stunning moment, Botham Jean's brother embraces Amber Guyger after her sentencing for his brother's murder.

"I don't even want you to go to jail. I want the best for you, because I know that's exactly what Botham would want." https://t.co/sWaPUtS0kj pic.twitter.com/xPAIKQLh6z
— ABC News (@ABC) October 2, 2019

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/jury-deciding-sentence-police-officer-amber-guyger-wrong/story?id=66002182&cid=social_twitter_abcn&fbclid=IwAR1U36FT1nmPtwYsrWRPDJnGFXww-Vvm4cwMmFC75Z3KFotlXZV6LwWCQz0

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The judge too!!! Whole thing is like group therapy!

Amber Guyger’s Own Judge Hugs Her After Being Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison https://t.co/Y6lDmKV49H pic.twitter.com/6N8kACrXQC
— Law & Crime (@lawcrimenews) October 2, 2019

by artappraiser on Wed, 10/02/2019 - 6:29pm

And will this compassion and forgiveness move police to similar sentiments, or is it just the abused who show grace?

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/02/2019 - 7:21pm

comes to mind seeing this ad that some in Hollywood trying to do their bit about cross-cultural problems (Which is, mho, how you really can change cultures if you do it well. Not by making law.)

by artappraiser on Thu, 10/03/2019 - 1:15am

OIC, it appears they are all bible thumpers

Wtf is this. I mean besides the most inappropriate way possible to end a murder trial. https://t.co/ixjTLUAtmr
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) October 3, 2019

I agree with "Brandon"'s unease. Next thing ya know, 10 commandments posted on the courtroom wall.

by artappraiser on Wed, 10/02/2019 - 11:56pm

The black guy who was sucker punched by an elderly white guy at a Trump rally also hugged it out.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/14/politics/donald-trump-protester-supporter-reconcile/index.html

Roxanne Gay on forgiveness shown to Dylann Roof

The call for forgiveness is a painfully familiar refrain when black people suffer. White people embrace narratives about forgiveness so they can pretend the world is a fairer place than it actually is, and that racism is merely a vestige of a painful past instead of this indelible part of our present.

Black people forgive because we need to survive. We have to forgive time and time again while racism or white silence in the face of racism continues to thrive. We have had to forgive slavery, segregation, Jim Crow laws, lynching, inequity in every realm, mass incarceration, voter disenfranchisement, inadequate representation in popular culture, microaggressions and more. We forgive and forgive and forgive and those who trespass against us continue to trespass against us.

Mr. Roof’s racism was blunt and raggedly formed. It was bred by a culture in which we constantly have to shout “Black lives matter!” because there is so much evidence to the contrary. This terrorist was raised in this culture. He made racist jokes with his friends. He shared his plans with his roommate. It’s much easier to introduce forgiveness into the conversation than to sit with that reality and consider all who are complicit.

What white people are really asking for when they demand forgiveness from a traumatized community is absolution. They want absolution from the racism that infects us all even though forgiveness cannot reconcile America’s racist sins. They want absolution from their silence in the face of all manner of racism, great and small. They want to believe it is possible to heal from such profound and malingering trauma because to face the openness of the wounds racism has created in our society is too much. I, for one, am done forgiving.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/opinion/why-i-cant-forgive-dylann-roof.html

Now that the judge has shown emotion by hugging Guyger, can she be trusted to continue dealing with expected appeals and other issues?

by rmrd0000 on Thu, 10/03/2019 - 8:33am

The judge was kinda suckered into it, couldn't really avoid.

She'll be fine.

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 10/03/2019 - 11:50am

The judge is supposed to be impartial.

Botham Jean's mother on the meaning of the hug

Rather than comforting ourselves with a Green Book-esque visage of racial unity, Americans ought to consider a world where Guyger doesn’t even have a gun the night of Sept. 6, 2018, because our police force is largely unarmed. That the concept of an unarmed police force wouldn’t seem so ludicrous if gun violence weren’t a public health crisis. That disentangling police brutality from racial violence doesn’t just mean better training for cops, it means questioning how often we resort to state-sanctioned violence as a solution for our problems in the first place.

A small act of individual mercy changes none of that. Jean’s mother, Allison, speaking on Today, made that distinction.

“I think what Brandt did this afternoon was to heal himself, and to free himself from what has been wrapped up within him for the last year,” Allison Jean said. “And so we forgive. But I don’t want forgiveness to be mistaken with a total relinquishing of responsibility.”

https://www.theroot.com/botham-jean-amber-guyger-and-the-delusion-of-for...

by rmrd0000 on Thu, 10/03/2019 - 12:00pm

Extraordinary act of mercy: Brother of Botham Jean hugs and forgives Guyger after 10-yr. sentence imposed

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