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Group Of White Boys In Virginia Jump 12-Year-Old Black Girl And Cut Her Locs
Amber Guyger’s Testimony Reveals
AMARI ALLEN AND CYNTHIA ALLEN
While on the stand for murder of Botham Jean, former Dallas police officer Amber Guyer broke down in sobs while de- scribing what happened on the evening she fatally shot an inno- cent man who was enjoying a bowl of ice cream in his own apartment.
It’s the first time the 31-year- old has publically spoken since Jean’s murder on September 6, 2018.
On the fifth day of the trial, Guyger claims she walked into what she thought was her own apartment when she heard “shuffling,” assuming Jean was an intruder. Guyger was off- duty, but still in uniform when she killed the 26-year-old ac- countant who was wearing shorts while watching television when he was shot. She alleges she saw a “silhouette figure” ap- proaching her, inciting “pure fear” for her life. Guyger yelled, “Hey! Hey! Hey!” before de- manding, “Show me your hands” twice.
"I was scared he was going to kill me," Guyger recounted.
While Guyger’s defense at- torneys attempted to prove the confusing apartment complex’s layout was to blame for Guyger mistaking units, the prosecution rebutted that point. Lead prosecutor, Jason Her- mus, argued how it’s unreason-
Amber Guyger sobbed on the stand Friday while recounting the night of Sept. 6, 2018, when she killed Botham Jean in his apartment.
Disturbing Details About The Night
She Killed Botham Jean
A 12-year-old Black girl and her family are distraught after she experienced a trau- matizing attack by her white classmates this past week.
Amari Allen, a student at Immanuel Christian School in Fairfax, Virginia, was vi- ciously attacked by a group of sixth-grade boys, who report- edly pinned her down while cutting her locs. According to reports, the students as- saulted her because her hair was “nappy” and “ugly.”
The soft-spoken preteen described the ordeal, “They kept laughing and calling me names. They called me ‘ugly,’ said, ‘I shouldn’t have been born.’ They called me ‘an at- tention-seeker.’”
Initially, Allen denied any- thing happened for fear of re- taliation; it ultimately took her two days to reveal what happened to her family. Her grandmother said she noticed
a difference in the length of her locs.
“It’s very painful,” Cynthia Allen said. “I want to see them dismissed from the school. I want to see some- thing done.”
The school released a state- ment about the investigation into the incident.
“We take seriously the emotional and physical well- being of all our students, and have a zero-tolerance policy for any kind of bullying or abuse. We are deeply dis- turbed by the allegations being made, and are in com- munication with the family of the alleged victim to gather information and provide whatever support we can. We have also reached out to law enforcement to ask them to conduct a thorough investiga- tion, and further inquiries should be directed to the Fairfax County Police.”
able that a resident, who has lived in her apartment for two months, would mistake another resident’s unit as their own, in addition to missing obvious in- dicators along her walk from the garage to Jean’s apartment. One of the clues mentioned was the bright red doormat Jean had in front of his apartment door. Guyger does not have a doormat in front of her door.
She blames being on “autopi- lot” from working 40 hours within four days as to why she approached the wrong apart- ment.
When asked to demonstrate how she opened Jean’s door, which was not completely closed or locked due to a malfunction in the door, Guyger began trem-
bling and crying uncontrollably. Judge Tammy Kemp initi- ated a court recess afterwards.
The Dallas native was asked how she felt after killing the Saint Lucia native at his South Side Flats apartment.
“I feel like a terrible person. I feel like a piece of crap. I hate that I have to live with this,” she stated. “I wish he was the one with the gun and he killed me. I never wanted to take an inno- cent person's life. I am so sorry.”
She admitted her intent was to kill Jean when she saw him, one of the components for a guilty murder conviction. Mur- der is defined as an unlawful killing of another human with- out a valid excuse, especially a malice aforethought.
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USAstreamsTV, a Black- owned company, is using technol- ogy to help break barriers that have limited many African Ameri- cans from having affordable ac- cess to live network channels. USA Today reports that the average cable subscriber spends about $85 a month for cable and more than $100 a month for satellite TV.
USAstreamsTV’s Marketing Di- rector Joseph Scales says, “Technology is always changing and improving. Today many peo- ple are looking for ways to save money and cut the cord. The old days of accessing cable TV and digital media through hardwired devices like satellite dishes and bulky cable boxes are being re-
placed by more cost-efficient on- line applications and easy plug and play devices like Amazon’s Firestick. This allows the same content to be streamed directly to your TVs, phones, tablets and lap- tops through IPTV also known as (Internet Protocol TV). The soft- ware technology we use today al- lows anyone around the globe to watch live TV through our streaming app as long as they have an internet/WIFI connec- tion.”
Scales mentions that most TV manufacturers and TV networks are adapting to the growing de- mand for live streaming TV by of- fering their content through various internet-based applica-
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