Finally ...

A Texas jury … again, a Texas jury … has convicted former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger of murder in the fatal 2018 shooting of Botham Jean, an innocent man, eating ice cream in his own home after mistaking his apartment for her own.

Guyger was fired from the Dallas Police Department shortly after the shooting now faces a prison sentence of five to 99 years.

Finally.

Finally, a police officer who shoots an unarmed black man is being punished for the crime. Finally. I don’t have any ill will toward Guyger, but let’s remember what she did, and did not do …

Amber Guyger  told the jury that on the night of the shooting she was tired from a long day at work and mistakenly parked her car on the wrong floor. She then went to what she thought was her apartment door and said she heard someone walking around inside.

She put her key into the lock and noticed that the door was "cracked open" and that putting the key into the lock forced the door open to the dark apartment. She claimed she’d had troubles getting her door to lock completely, so she entered.

Botham Jean was sitting on his couch in his apartment when Guyger opened his front door and shot him without giving him a chance to surrender. She says she saw the silhouette of a figure, so she pulled her "gun out and I yelled at him." She said the figure was moving around and she could not see his hands, and that the man "was yelling, 'Hey! Hey! Hey!' in an aggressive voice” and was moving toward her.

"I was scared he was gonna kill me."

In his apartment, eating ice cream on the couch.

Guyger's defense team attempted to use the Castle Doctrine, which is similar to Florida's "stand your ground" law, as a defense, arguing that while she was in the wrong apartment, in her mind she believed she was in her own unit, which was a floor below Jean's.

Seriously. She made the mistake; she entered the wrong apartment; she fired a gun; she murdered a man, and the defense is what?

“Oops?”

In his closing arguments Dallas County Assistant District Attorney Jason Fine asked jurors to reject Guyer's "crazy" contention that she shot Botham Jean in self-defense because she believed she was in her own apartment and that the victim, who was sitting on his couch eating ice cream, was going to kill her and read an excerpt from Guyger's testimony:

"I never want anybody to have to go through or even imagine going through what I felt that night."

Fine was livid:

“Are you kidding me? That is garbage. Most of what she said was garbage. Ninety-nine percent of this trial has been about the defendant [and not Botham Jean]. He's eating ice cream on his couch. So, if you're sitting and eating ice cream you get shot in the heart? Is that what we're saying?"

Not yesterday; yesterday a jury said that Black Lives Matter.

Finally. Justice for Botham Jean.