Dallas cop fearing for her life shoots scary black man in apartment

[Winehole23]

Pick a side DMC.

It's gonna hurt.

[Pavlov]

Don't feed the creeper...

keep posting only about me, derp

[Pavlov]

Pick a side DMC.

It's gonna hurt.

he's gonna say something edgy about you now.

[spurraider21]

There are reasons for this. People will make claims such that "god told me to do it", etc. Even if they were completely brainwashed and truthful, it's still murder.

insanity defense tbh

[Winehole23]

he's gonna say something edgy about you now.

His edgy comments have been lame of late. For awhile, actualy.

There's something to the old saw that premature cynics, for lack of idealistic brio, get senile prematurely..

So you get a DMC who's a stodgy acolyte.of police power.

[Winehole23]

While pretending to be a free thinking libertarian.

[Winehole23]

Seems like the correct decision since she is claiming self defense

Already said I think murder is the correct charge but why do you think the jury shouldn't be able to consider her defense? She's en led to one right?

Didn't Botham Jean have the right to resist a wrongful home inavsion?

If not, why not?

[Winehole23]

Why does the castle doctrine protect the invader but not the legal resident?

[Winehole23]

Oh right, he was black with Caribbean heritage. Not from here.

that church singer!

[Winehole23]

A cop got confused and scared; he deserved to die!

[SnakeBoy]

But that includes lack of intent to kill. She testified she intended to kill. I think it's either murder or she walks. She'll never wear a badge again, but she should serve some time just for the fact of wrongful death. We know she won't be able to pay off a lawsuit, and the city won't need to settle until the wrongful death civil case.

Yeah I think it is murder. Would like to see her do a few years plus probation. Hopefully she doesn't walk.

[SnakeBoy]

Didn't Botham Jean have the right to resist a wrongful home inavsion?

If not, why not?

Sure. She's still en led to a defense.

[Winehole23]

Who cares besides friends and kin, it's just a man's life sacrificed to the emotional frailty of LE.

God forbid a civil servant should be momentarily inconvenienced, better to extinguish the complaint altogether.

[SnakeBoy]

Oh right, he was black with Caribbean heritage. Not from here.

that church singer!

Probably what the judge was thinking amirite?

[SnakeBoy]

2 in the morning. Whinehole drunk and angry lol.

[Winehole23]

Sure. She's still en led to a defense.

Not contested.

She's getting one. Bully on her lawyers. Protecting the guilty from legal responsibility is a primary obligation of defense.

[Winehole23]

2 in the morning. Whinehole drunk and angry lol.

what are you doing up at this hour?

[Winehole23]

Probably what the judge was thinking amirite?

Your hypothesis, not mine. I was thinking of the defense.

[Winehole23]

Sure. She's still en led to a defense.

Was Botham Jean en led to resist a cop who had no good reason to invade his home?

[Blake]

Since they aren't in a trial about morality, legal will be all that matters. Benefit of the doubt. Good to know your uninformed mob mentality is intact. Keep up the fight. the justice system.

Legal will be all that matters in a court of law? No way!

"Benefit of doubt" of what? That in the dark she thought his ice cream spoon was really a knife?

Good to know you're okay with her walking free. All hail the Justice system. It's infallible. Don't fight it.

[ElNono]

insanity defense tbh

yep, that's what I pointed out as an exception, mental illness

[ElNono]

Seems like the correct decision since she is claiming self defense

Already said I think murder is the correct charge but why do you think the jury shouldn't be able to consider her defense? She's en led to one right?

Honestly, her defense makes sense in a civil case (which I'm sure there will be one), not a criminal trial. Murder cases like this one, where the murderer confessed and there's no mental illness or some such going on, end up being a cursory trial to prove the forensics indicate that indeed she pulled the trigger, etc. Which is pretty damn clear in this case.

The jury itself doesn't define the sentence, which is where there's wiggle room to take into consideration her reasoning can come into play.

[Pavlov]

Well, I can't say I'm surprised DMC would champion the feelings-based defense when it's a black man who got murdered.

[ElNono]

I wouldn't take DMC as somebody that's racist. And the confusion between criminal vs civil is pretty common, tbh

[Pavlov]

I wouldn't take DMC as somebody that's racist.

I just wasn't surprised tbh.

Mostly about the feelings.