Prosecution contrasts Guyger's spotless uniform, fellow officers' 'heroic' efforts: Your Thursday evening roundup

The defense tried to establish that Botham Jean was so close to Guyger that she had no choice but to shoot the man she believed to be a burglar in her home.  [Evening roundup]( 09/26/2019 By Wayne Carter Good Evening! Here is a look at the top headlines of the day. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here.]( Amber Guyger leaves the 204th District Court after her murder trial recessed for the day Thursday at the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer) AMBER GUYGER TRIAL [Prosecution contrasts Amber Guyger's spotless uniform with 'heroic' efforts of fellow officers]( The prosecution rested Thursday in Amber Guyger's murder case, but not before contrasting the lifesaving efforts of first responders trying to revive Botham Jean with Guyger: texting on her phone in a spotless uniform. "What you guys did was exceptionally heroic," lead prosecutor Jason Hermus told Dallas Officer Tu Nguyen, one of the first officers at the scene of last September's shooting at the South Side Flats apartments. [Guyger, 31, was off duty but still in her Dallas police uniform]( Sept. 6, 2018, when she fatally shot her upstairs neighbor in his apartment near downtown. Podcast: Listen to Episode 7 of our audio report [on Day 3 of Amber Guyger's murder trial.]( ADVERTISEMENT IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY [Impeachment talk is usually cheap politics. Right now, we need to pay attention]( From Rudolph Bush, DMN deputy editorial page editor: Democracy is a fragile thing. It depends first on the acknowledgment that we all can’t win all of the time. It requires us to live together in political peace even when things don’t break our way. To exist in this manner, we absolutely must accept that our internal political differences are just that — ours. 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