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Dallas Police Department Fires Officer Charged With Manslaughter in Killing of Botham Jean

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“Officer Guyger … engaged in adverse conduct when she was arrested for Manslaughter.”
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The Dallas Police Department has fired Officer Amber Guyger after an internal affairs investigation into the killing of Botham Jean.
A statement from the department, posted to Twitter, said Guyger was fired following a Monday hearing with Dallas Police Chief U. Reneé Hall.
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— Dallas Police Dept (@DallasPD) September 24,2018
“An Internal Affairs investigation concluded that on September 9,2018, Officer Guyger… engaged in adverse conduct when she was arrested for Manslaughter,” the statement read.
Guyger was arrested and charged with manslaughter in relation to the incident and is currently free on bond.
By her own account, Guyger entered the wrong apartment, thinking it was her own, and shot Jean. Guyger lives on a different floor of the apartment building.
Lawyers for Botham Jean’s family are demanding the firing of Officer Amber Guyger. https://t.co/IFSsKsSlUI pic.twitter.com/rCZBM3T9CR
— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) September 14,2018
Jean’s family harshly criticized the Dallas Police Department’s handling of the case after an unsealed warrant revealed police had searched Jean’s apartment for marijuana after he was killed.
“Twenty-six years on this earth he lived his life without a blemish,” Lee Merritt, an attorney for the family, said. “It took being murdered by a Dallas police officer for Botham Jean to suddenly become a criminal.”
“I’m calling on the Dallas officials … please come clean,” Allison Jean, Botham Jean’s mother, said. “Give me justice for my son because he does not deserve what he got.”
Botham Jean’s mother Allison and her lawyer @MeritLaw discuss the aftermath of her son’s death at the hands of police officer Amber Guygen pic.twitter.com/W9JI9pReqC
— AM to DM by BuzzFeed News (@AM2DM) September 20,2018
In an interview with BuzzFeed News, Allison Jean explained that she believed Guyger entered her son’s apartment with the intent to kill him.
“The sequence of events that she outlined in her affidavit does not appear logical,” Jean said. “Because one would enter the apartment, and even if they saw the door ajar, the first inclination would be to turn on the lights that are closest to the doorway. She didn’t do that.”

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