Relatives of Botham Jean were awarded nearly $100 million in damages after a jury found that Amber Guyger used excessive force in Jean's 2018 killing.

Summary

A jury awarded $98 million to the family of Botham Jean, a Black man fatally shot in his home in 2018 by former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger.

The jury found Guyger acted with “malice” and awarded $60 million in punitive damages and $38 million in compensatory damages.

Guyger, who was off-duty and mistook Jean’s apartment for her own, was convicted of murder in 2019 and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Jean’s family called the verdict a message on racial bias and police accountability.

  • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
    20·
    13 hours ago

    Pretty sure Texas has a cap on punitive damages at like 750k. The law explicitly disallows telling juries about this cap as well.

    So no one is paying at least 59 million of it.