The guilty verdict passed down to Amber Guyger—the former Dallas police officer who shot and killed her 26-year-old neighbor Botham Jean in his apartment after mistaking it for her own—should have been cathartic. One doesn’t have to be a supporter for the carceral state to at least feel a sense of relief that yet another white cop didn’t kill an unarmed black person and get away with it. But any feeling of justice was swiftly doused by the a few brief moments after the verdict, and the fetishization that soon followed.