The Honorable Tammy Kemp Is Up For Re-Election (Amber Guyger Judge)

[El Bombi]

Guyger draws challenger for re-election
Dallas lawyer Bree West said Tammy Kemp deserves to be un-seated after her roles in two high profile cases.

@dtownreppin214 @satam55 @shopthatwrecks @LurkMoar

This Mammy is about to be gone with the GOAT Royce West Daughter-In-Law is running against her in the primary.

Remember Mammy Kemp ran unopposed in 2018.

The top Dallas Black Leaders clearly want this Mammy out of there after she pulled this shyt in the Amber Guyger case.

And she also took a bullshyt jab at the Black Dallas DA during the case as well.

 

[El Bombi]

The judge who hugged former Dallas cop and convicted murderer Amber Guyger drew a challenger in the March primary.

Tammy Kemp is seeking her third term as judge of the 204th State District Court. She was a prosecutor under former Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins.

Well-known attorney Bree West, whose father-in-law is longtime State Sen. Royce West, is challenging Kemp in the Democratic primary.

This judge hears felony criminal cases at the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas. The race will come down to the Democratic primary election March 1. There are no Republican challengers for this race.


Kemp, who did not respond to interview requests, became well known during the 2019 murder trial of former Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger, who fatally shot Botham Jean — a Black man — in his own apartment, which she said she believed was hers. Jurors convicted Guyger, who is white, and sentenced her to 10 years in prison.

After the trial, Kemp gave Guyger a Bible and a hug. Her actions took place outside the presence of the jury but were captured on TV cameras and broadcast around the world. Some praised Kemp for showing mercy and compassion. But others said the behavior from a judge, who is supposed to remain impartial, was unethical. Jean’s younger brother, Brandt Jean, also hugged Guyger after the trial and said he forgave her.

That hug is one of the reasons West is running against Kemp.

“It is beyond inappropriate for a judge that presides over a murder trial — in the beginning, in the middle, in the end, when it’s over, whenever — to step off of their bench and physically hug a person that’s just been convicted of murder,” West said.

Kemp defended her actions in interviews shortly after the trial, saying it’s not uncommon for her to speak with people after they’ve been convicted to encourage them. Never before had one of those people asked for a hug, she said. Guyger did.


“And I thought, well, how can I not hug this woman?” Kemp said after the trial. “So when she asked the second time, I said yes.”

West said she decided to run after Kemp’s involvement in another high-profile case. Dallas police fired and arrested one of their own, Bryan Riser, on suspicion of ordering multiple killings. A judge later ordered Riser’s release from jail after deciding police did not have sufficient evidence to hold him.

In a hearing, Dallas police Detective Esteban Montenegro admitted to putting false information in an affidavit for Riser’s arrest, which Kemp signed. Montenegro wrote that cellphone data placed Riser in or around the area of the killings. But the cellphone data did not put Riser in the area when the killings occurred and Montenegro testified he erred in writing that it did. Montenegro later removed that information from the affidavit and went back to have Kemp sign the new affidavit. In the court hearing, defense attorney Toby Shook asked Montenegro what Kemp said when he told her about the changes in the affidavit.

“She basically said, ‘It’s OK. It’s an error,’” Montenegro testified.

West argues that Kemp should have been more critical of the detective. She believes Kemp has shown bias toward law enforcement.

“I think that if you have somebody that’s willing to rubber-stamp arrest warrants … without any check and balance, we as a community all need to be concerned about that,” West said.

Prosecutors have not presented Riser’s case to a grand jury and said during the hearing that they did not intend to unless more evidence was discovered to prove the charge.

West, who was a prosecutor for seven years and has spent the last five years as a defense lawyer, argues she can “bring balance to the bench.”

“I understand the system from both sides. I think that that makes it so that I can see the holes and can be really committed to trying to fix them,” West said.

The deadline to register to vote is Jan. 31.

 

[El Bombi]

https://www.breewestforthe204.com/meet-bree

New Leadership Delivering Judicial Integrity, Fairness, and Competence for Our Community.
I have been practicing law in the Dallas metroplex for more than 10 years. I began my career as a prosecutor with the Dallas County District Attorney's Office and had the opportunity to encounter all varieties of cases. I learned the importance of creating a balance between accountability and punishment with fairness and compassion. I saw firsthand many of the issues our community faces when addressing crime and when our citizens have contact with the criminal justice system. I witnessed the way in which the judicial system is broken from the inside and the dangers of having unbalanced experience on the bench. I witnessed judicial bias, unfairness and inexperience. What I observed as a prosecutor laid the foundation for my decision to leave the District Attorney's Office and become a defense attorney primarily serving the indigent community.

For the last several years I have been in private practice as a defense attorney serving this community. I have gained a greater understanding of how unbalanced our system is and a deeper appreciation for the need to ensure our community elects Judges who are fair, balanced and serve with compassion.


I fundamentally believe that everyone deserves fair treatment in our system. I believe each part of the judicial system: The Judge, the defense attorney and the Prosecutor, play a role in creating the balance necessary for our system to work. I believe that when any one part of the juridical system fails, the entire system fails, however most significantly, inexperienced, unfair, or biased Judges ensure the total failure of an already fragile system.


I am running for Judge because I understand the unique importance of the role that balance plays in our system. The balance of having been both a prosecutor and a defense attorney; the balance of having the fortitude to make hard decisions in the face of difficult circumstances, and; the balance of having the courage to see hope in all of our communities.

Join me in Being Apart of the Change! Join me in ensuring integrity, fairness, and competence return to our Courts!


Join me by Voting Bree West for the 204th Judicial District Court.

 

[Huda2daf]

I pray the good ppl of Dallas don’t fukk this up

 

[El Bombi]

I pray the good ppl of Dallas don’t fukk this up

They're not with Royce West Daughter-in-Law running against her.

There's no other more respected man amongst Dallas black people than the GOAT Royce West.

This is clearly a power move of all of the Top Black Dallas city leaders getting on-code.

@dtownreppin214 The GOAT Royce West should have a statue built in his honor once he pass off to the ancestors.

 

[BaggerofTea]

I hope they unseat this travesty

 

[#1 pick]

She messed up hugging Guyer. She did it for the white overseers

 

[dtownreppin214]

Thx for the reminder. I forwarded this to my group chats. She will be voted out.

 

[El Bombi]

Thx for the reminder. I forwarded this to my group chats. She will be voted out.

Yeap, I told my family this morning.

Everybody is on board to get her out of there.

She committed career suicide with the Amber Guyger huge and the bullshyt jab at John Creuzot.

 

[dtownreppin214]

They're not with Royce West Daughter-in-Law running against her.

There's no other more respected man amongst Dallas black people than the GOAT Royce West.

This is clearly a power move of all of the Top Black Dallas city leaders getting on-code.

@dtownreppin214 The GOAT Royce West should have a statue built in his honor once he pass off to the ancestors.

He took the baton from the gawd Al Lipscomb. I watched West hold court at a men’s event in East Dallas last year. What he says is law in Southern Dallas.

 

[Hey_zeus]

Get that bailiff that was rubbing Guygers hair outta here too.

 

[AtlienInTheGoodieMob]

Good get that mammy up outta there, I damn near had an a aneurysm when she hug that cac

 

[ORDER_66]

Good get that mammy up outta there, I damn near had an a aneurysm when she hug that cac

That shyt was beyond c00nish hugging a fukking killer who murdered an innocent black man...

 

[NSSVO]

Can't believe she hugged that bytch

 

[LurkMoar]

Let’s get her out of here brehs