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it was victim's fault for not complying with verbal demands while being held at gunpoint in his own "completely dark" home by an unknown intruder
https://apnews.com/25044e46567e4f6591d5c30a612cc64aAn investigator says a Dallas police officer who shot and killed her neighbor after mistaking his apartment for her own said that when she inserted her key in his door, it opened because it had been slightly ajar.
David Armstrong of the Texas Rangers wrote in an arrest affidavit released Monday that Officer Amber Guyger said it was nearly completely dark inside the apartment when she entered it Thursday night and she thought she was encountering a burglar in her home.
He says Guyger said the person ignored her verbal commands and she fired twice. One struck Jean in the chest and he later died.
The affidavit says Guyger was on the phone with 911 reporting the shooting when she turned on the apartment lights and discovered she was in the wrong apartment.
it was victim's fault for not complying with verbal demands while being held at gunpoint in his own "completely dark" home by an unknown intruder
Texas Rangers brought in to buy enough time to fabricate this re ed storyit’s not actually funny, it’s ing horrible.
And because turning and fleeing is not an option for the officer
When those toxicology tests come back clean, we’ll know for sure that the fix is in. That story is utter bull unless she was drunk as , and even then it’s only barely believable.
Ya and I thought I read elsewhere that some lights in Jeans apt were on.
Pretty fishy the "door adjar" too.
Update. Oh ok
Officer Amber Guyger said it was nearly completely dark
tbh, I'm being cynical about this incident because we've seen it play out many times. I'm not arguing that it wasn't an accident, could've been.
You could see this playing out again from a mile away when it took almost two days to hand over the case to the Rangers, and then almost another day to actually get and execute the warrant.
We're talking about a flat out murderer, that gets a double standard because she is LE. If any of us here would've done the same thing, accident or not, you would've seen the cuffs and a judge before this lady has seen the warrant.
And the prosecutor would've probably thrown the book at you.
Imagine if black guy opened the wrong door and, "honest mistake", shot a white person.
How different would the treatment be?
Black female cop shooting a white male?
Even less coverage than currently occurring
Wow who could have seen that coming? Botham Jean would get the needle if he was the shooter, can't wait to see white girl Amber get probation.Texas Rangers brought in to buy enough time to fabricate this re ed story
See post #157.
Then tell me to die in a horrible way.
Oh my word...
yep. time to get advice and concoct a credible story.
I don't hang wid CPAC assholes, is this ChupaChopra being sarcastic or not?
Let this be a lesson to my fellow home owners. When an intruder is entering our home, follow their instructions.
I think the headlines are painting a somewhat misleading implication on this. The affidavit mentions verbal commands as a statement of fact, not necessarily as a justification of the officer's actions or an indictment of the victim. In other words, I don't think anyone's saying he should have followed her orders.
With that said, the affidavit doesn't go into nearly enough detail about what commands she gave or how she gave them. This incident may have been an unintentional tragedy at best, but it still speaks to how officers are trained to be frantic and trigger-happy when they feel any personal risk. When you bark orders at someone while pointing a gun at them, it's unreasonable to expect calm and immediate cooperation.
I don't understand "broke into home"?
she went into somebody else's home
he said / she said
he said? oops
"she said" will be fabricated to exonerate her.
Don’t be purposely obtuse.
Conflicting info in that AP story.
Officer statement says, "When she put her key in the apartment door, which was unlocked and slightly ajar, it opened"
That is weird. An officer notices - what she thinks is her own door ajar- but uses the key?
She says she noticed a large figure in "her" apartment - so she thinks it is a burglar and gives commands which he ignores so she shoots and kills.
When she calls 9-1-1 to report it they ask for location - she looks at door and realizes she ed up.
She obviously ed up and then panicked. Gonna be at least Manslaughter.
I never knew homicide was a charge. All deaths caused by another person are homicides. I think voluntary manslaughter will be the charge that sticks - she killed him intentionally but in the heat of the moment, meaning she was in the wrong but didn't register it same as someone who loses their cool. She lacked situational awareness and so she mistakenly thought she had the right to use lethal force. It's no different than me shooting someone in a store because I thought they were robbing it when they were just buying lottery tickets.
I would think this deserves a charge of negligent homicide.
We'll never know the truth,
with the cop's word being the only in-person account,
then massaged heavily by LE in favor of the cop, while very probably digging up dirt on the black guy to justify his execution,
iow, the Freddie Gray / Eric Garner / Michael Brown treatment.
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