In 2018 an off-duty Dallas police officer, Amber Guyger, walked into the wrong apartment and shot and killed Botham Jean, an innocent man sitting in his own home. At her sentencing in October 2019, Botham’s 18-year-old brother Brandt took the stand and told her that if she was truly sorry, he forgave her. He said what he really wanted was for her to give her life to Christ. Then he asked the judge if he could give her a hug, and the two embraced in front of the bench while the courtroom sobbed. Not everyone agreed with him, but nobody who saw it ever forgot it.
