Brother of victim in wrong-apartment shooting receives police group's 'courage award'

A national law enforcement group has bestowed an award on the brother of a man who was killed in a 2018 wrong-apartment shooting by former Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger, whom he hugged and forgave in an extraordinary act of mercy before she was sent to prison for murder.

"Despite an unimaginable loss, he saw the humanity in the person responsible for his brother's death," Gregory Smith, director of the Institute of Law Enforcement Administration, said in a statement."He saw her pain and regret, and had the ability to show empathy, caring and forgiveness." At Guyger's Oct. 2, sentencing hearing, Brandt Jean took the witness stand and spoke directly to Guyger, saying that he forgave her and that"I know if you go to God and ask him, he will forgive you."

“If somebody touch my son that means somebody getting killed”

What a beautiful picture!!!! To forgive is to give ourselves by transcending the fault, looking beyond what could have stopped us...

AnnetteLawless I think her. Indecision should’ve showed up at the training and testing of this police officer. I wonder if they ignore warning flags sometimes to get police officers? BTK tried to be a cop. He still made it into a city truck though

To remind ⚫️👥⚫️👥⚫️👥⚫️👥 HOW *STUPID THEY ARE ‼️🤦🏾‍♀️ endofstory✌🏽

Puppplease..... we ADOS have witnessed this faux forgiveness for centuries. She knew exactly what she was doing when she bust in his apt 😡locked & loaded💥💥🔫💀🇺🇸the American Way! 👮🏻‍♀️

he’ll bang her eventually

If everyone would just apologize, give out hugs and bibles, we can just do away with the judicial process. Save the taxpayers money. 🧐

Slow news day ABC? This was months ago.

I still love this hug. God bless this young man!!!

She should shoot him this shitcunt

why are you reporting on the process of an individual person grappling with their grief in their own way as though it's news? why does the text of this tweet suggest that it was right, broadly, and not just right for him? what do you expect people to take from this?

And they're 100% that he wasn't in on it? 🤔

That's sad but shows great love and forgiveness

Humanity? Why is ABC covering for pedophiles? What happened to Disney?

This is like expecting a trump supporter to admit they’re a cult. No matter how nice to them you are, they’ll still go to bed dreaming about shooting you in the head.

Dear black people. White people want you to show sympathy because they have no intention to stop killing you. Obviously your oppressors do not want you fighting back.

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