If she was to serve out all ten, then sure. She will be eligible for parole after 5 and I'm positive she will get it. That's not enough for admittedly taking someone's life when she had options to call for backup, texting her lover instead of doing CPR, and outright stating that she's a racist in her texts.
I think some of those celebrities are getting in the 5 year range for cheating on the SAT. People get 5 years for tax evasion and food stamp fraud. Very rare to get 5 years for intentionally shooting someone and not following her training to call for backup. I think I can guarantee that it would have been more than 5 if she had killed a white woman.
Yes I know she got 10, but it's up to the parole board for her to get out after only 5 years. She's a cop and a half-blonde white woman. She will only serve 5 and be out at the age of 36 in the prime of her life. Meanwhile in 5 years, Botham's family will still be in the thick of grieving.
Yes! I agree with all this.
After watching everything..pretrial interviews etc, I think the brothers gesture doesn't reflect the whole family's position. They CLEARLY wanted a conviction and jail time for Amber.
For me 10 years is another slap on the wrist for a cop. They aren't treated the same. They can kill us and either don't get charged or get BS sentences. Like the cop that shot that kid 16 times getting a 6 year sentence. Really?
Us not getting angry and forgiving our murderers is why things will never change. The next one will be the same And there will be a next one. This didn't set any type of example.
Amber lied about what happened and we know she did. She failed her first polygraph, she couldn't explain how he was coming at her from the window but ended up dead by the couch, how the shot that hit the wall ended up in the path it did and landed in the wall by his couch. Both she and Martin tried to destroy evidence, she never once said she identified herself as a police officer, didn't render aid, she was racist and on and on.
We can't expect change if we don't demand change.
My first child died from liver failure. My 2nd child was killed by a teen texting and driving who lost control of his car and ran over her. He was never charged.
I've spent so much time trying to get distracted driver laws changed in our state. I won't ever be able to forgive but I can concede that's an individual thing. His parents got to take him home to a warm bed. I got to send my daughter to a cold morgue in a body bag. Nope, unforgivable.