A jury found former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger guilty of murder, but she has yet to be sentenced. When a white ex-Dallas police officer recounted her thinking as she fired the two shots that killed an innocent black man in his own living room last year, she told a jury it was fear, not racism, that drove her to pull the trigger. “This is not about hate,” she testified in court Friday. “It’s about being scared.” But after a jury convicted Amber Guyger, 31, of murder Tuesday, prosecutors introduced text messages sent by the former officer that show […]
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