Posted on 09/10/2018 11:39:56 PM PDT by conservative98
The white Dallas cop who fatally shot her black neighbor after confusing his apartment for her own told investigators that he ignored her “verbal commands” and all she could see was a “large silhouette” — so she opened fire.
Amber Guyger had just entered the fourth floor residence, which was dark, and thought she was being burglarized, according to her arrest affidavit.
The 30-year-old claimed during police interviews that the front door was slightly ajar, so when she went to use her key it pushed open on its own.
Upon entering, Guyger said she saw the “large silhouette” — which turned out to be 26-year-old Botham Jean. She drew her service weapon and “gave verbal commands that were ignored” before eventually firing two shots, the affidavit says.
Jean was hit once in the torso and mortally wounded.
After realizing what she did, Guyger — who actually lives on the third floor, in the apartment right below Jean’s — told investigators that she turned on the lights and started performing CPR.
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I don’t think I would respond to commands from someone who illegally, and stupidly, entered my home either. How could she confuse the 4th floor for the third? I’m guessing she was really drunk or drugged out.
I’m guessing neither, she’s just an airhead.
Lowlife garbage. Try her for second degree murder, breaking and entering, attempted burglary. Throw away the key.
After a 15 hour shift, she might’ve just been tired.
I’m sure Freepers will agree that unless you have a warrant, signed by a judge, or if someone is in immediate danger only then you can enter private property.
I wouldn’t listen to anyone else’s verbal commands in my own home.
Any private citizen who did this would be looking at a possible death penalty. And so should this person.
You don’t get to give commands as an unlawful intruder in another person’s home. That makes it worse, not better.
The screaming issue here is that not once before pulling out her weapon and killing a man did she consider the possibility that she was the one in error. She never asked whether she was the one in the right.
Was she working her shift in a similar condition?
100 years in prison.
If someone comes to my front door and starts barking “commands” I am rightfully going to ignore her.
My wife grew up in a row house neighborhood. She had a sister who liked her high school drinking parties. Her sister frequently entered a neighbors house, walked right up the stairs, and would go to bed in the wrong house. The neighbors just rolled with it. Very embarrassing Sunday mornings. Nobody got shot.
I am sensing a relationship gone awry. Lover spurned and dispatched because she could.
Unbelievable. This police officer did not set out to kill the victim or anyone else for that matter. She made a horrible, fatal mistake. The death penalty does not apply nor should it. Manslaughter is the most likely charge she’ll get
Her being a cop is incidental. Nothing to do with the accident. But, no defense based upon her authority either. She will get a plea to manslaughter unless she already had a relationship with him that served as a motive. Then murder.
Her actions betray a belief that she had the inherent right to gun the man down without questioning the correctness of her own position. She did not even check herself enough to see if it was the right apartment - she went straight for the kill.
This is called “depraved heart murder”. In common law there is no difference between that and the specific intent to kill.
Yes, respond to verbal commands to a burglar.
Muslims have it right about women. Just don’t let my wife read that or she will beat me up.
She’s lucky she didn’t get shot first I guess. How sad and tragic.
I have done a 12 hour shift plus 6 hours overtime and still found my way to me house with no problems whatsoever. There is something rotten in the state of Denmark.
A little off topic. What is up with the writer for the NY Post? Why interject race into this. SMH
‘The white Dallas cop who fatally shot her black neighbor’
How would the judicial system treat anyone else who did the same?
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