Amber Guyger sentencing

[Camp]

Needs to be higher IMO.

[Supreme_War_Pig]

@WuWei

@Supreme_War_Pig

@WuWei

@Supreme_War_Pig

Yes…we might not like the results, but yes.

Yes it’s working?

Yes it is working. People are being tried and punished.

And that’s your evidence it’s “working”? What happens to them after?

@WuWei

Highest per capita incarceration rate in the world. It’s “working”?

Yeah, it is working as intended. People are being tried and punished.

Perhaps you are asking the wrong question. Maybe you should be asking “is it ideal?” or “Is there a better way?”

[PurpnGold]

@WuWei

Before or after she shot him?

“ believing him to be an intruder in her home .”

He posed no threat.

What is your angle here? Is it your perspective that she should not have been convicted?

[Supreme_War_Pig]

@PurpnGold

@WuWei

Before or after she shot him?

“ believing him to be an intruder in her home .”

He posed no threat.

What is your angle here? Is it your perspective that she should not have been convicted?

It goes to intent.

[Cratic3947]

She probably was hired to make sure the department look more diverse as opposed to real skill.
Perhaps who ever hired her should be tried for manslaughter too.

[Call_me_Ishmael]

@PurpnGold

She saw a scary black guy

How do you tell the race of someone in the dark?

[WuWei]

@Supreme_War_Pig

@PurpnGold

@WuWei

Before or after she shot him?

“ believing him to be an intruder in her home .”

He posed no threat.

What is your angle here? Is it your perspective that she should not have been convicted?

It goes to intent.

“ believing him to be an intruder in her home .”

[WuWei]

@Supreme_War_Pig

Yeah, it is working as intended. People are being tried and punished.

They’re definitely being punished. What’s that doing to address the problem?

@Supreme_War_Pig

Perhaps you are asking the wrong question. Maybe you should be asking “is it ideal?” or “Is there a better way?”

While you’re defending the current system?

Question: Were Guyger and especially Potter set up for success?

[WuWei]

@PurpnGold

He posed no threat.

An intruder in your home is a threat.

@PurpnGold

What is your angle here? Is it your perspective that she should not have been convicted?

Addressing the actual problem?

[WuWei]

@Supreme_War_Pig

It goes to intent.

Her intent was to find an intruder in her home?

[WuWei]

@Cratic3947

She probably was hired to make sure the department look more diverse as opposed to real skill.
Perhaps who ever hired her should be tried for manslaughter too.

Uh oh.

[WuWei]

@Call_me_Ishmael

@PurpnGold

She saw a scary black guy

How do you tell the race of someone in the dark?

With tunnel vision and auditory exclusion.

[Supreme_War_Pig]

@WuWei

@Supreme_War_Pig

Yeah, it is working as intended. People are being tried and punished.

They’re definitely being punished. What’s that doing to address the problem?

@Supreme_War_Pig

Perhaps you are asking the wrong question. Maybe you should be asking “is it ideal?” or “Is there a better way?”

While your defending the current system?

Question: Were Guyger and especially Potter set up for success?

Address what problem?

Set up for success? What does that even mean? They both made terrible mistakes, but how does blame for that redound anywhere but to them?

[WuWei]

@Supreme_War_Pig

Address what problem?

Set up for success? What does that even mean? They both made terrible mistakes, but how does blame for that redound anywhere but to them?

@Cratic3947

She probably was hired to make sure the department look more diverse as opposed to real skill.
Perhaps who ever hired her should be tried for manslaughter too.

For example.

[Camp]

Ouch. Astute observation.

[Camp]

This one belongs in this thread. Take it one step further and the injured 58 YO woman had died of her injuries.

[WuWei]

What happened to this country?

[Camp]

Lawyers. Civil tort law mostly. Using law for power, fun, and profit.

I almost went to law school and luckily realized the unassailable laws of physics were more to my temperament.

[PurpnGold]

@WuWei

An intruder in your home is a threat.

It wasn’t her apartment.

@WuWei

Addressing the actual problem?

Can’t you do both? Punish the offender and address the underlying issue?

[WuWei]

@PurpnGold

It wasn’t her apartment.

Yes it was.

@PurpnGold

Can’t you do both? Punish the offender and address the underlying issue?

Punish the “offender” for what? Making a mistake?