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15-12=3

12/2=6

3 hours would be 1/4th or .25 of a Shift

The original report was a 12 hour shift.

I still have not heard Anything about the Blood Draw results on her.

If she is cleared of Drug/Alcohol use via the Blood Draw done I for one will not trust the Chain of Custody on the sample/results. It’s been 3 days since the Blood Draw and not a word on the results. They can have results in a few minutes, it’s done all the time in ER for unconscious people that may have OD’d on drugs or alcohol. So this alone tells Me she was either on something, drinking OR we have the start of a Coverup...

I’ll bet that a Chain of Custody on a Water System BacT Test sample has a better CoC than her blood test did.

And I will not believe that she was “overtired” from a 12 hour shift she just came off of. I’ve worked many 12 hour shifts for years including Doubles- alone at Water Treatment Plants treating 30+ Million Gallons a Day

Depends.

I have read accounts were a shift will get extended if the officer has arrest-related paperwork that needs to be completed. And there are also instances (and I’ve done it myself) when back-to-back shifts are pulled to change a three watch assignment schedule. Usually it’s a day watch that takes the evening shift (total 16 hours) before being off for 16 hours and coming back for the evening shift.

Then there is the question of how long the officer had been up BEFORE pulling the long shift (for whatever reason).

So what are we looking at: 17-18 hours total?

That’s a long work day but not necessarily a long day. Actually, it’s my ordinary day since I rarely sleep more than 6 hours.

So it’s very early morning, you’re in uniform, tired, mistakenly outside the wrong door rattling the door and perhaps talking loudly (maybe using foul language) about why this *&@#$?!! key FOB isn’t working (again?). Apartment occupant, being a light sleeper, hears a commotion out at the front door, comes out of the master bedroom to the door and looks through the peephole. He sees an officer in uniform, and, wishing to be helpful, unlocks and opens the door, surprising the officer. It is not good ever to surprise an LEO. Doubly so when they think they are safe at their front door and have let their guard down.

He probably didn’t even get the “May” of “May I help you, officer?” out of his mouth before she shot him. And two hits in the chest from two feet away are not difficult.

Manslaughter

The unjustifiable, inexcusable, and intentional killing of a human being without deliberation, premeditation, and malice. The unlawful killing of a human being without any deliberation, which may be involuntary, in the commission of a lawful act without due caution and circumspection.

https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/manslaughter

So I guess the lesson to be learned is:

If you are a tired LEO who thinks they are at their own front door, don’t shoot reflexively when surprised (despite hours and hours of training in simulation and live firing) without first being ABSOLUTELY SURE you are at your own front door.

The appropriate response would have been: “Am I at the right apartment? Or, more suspiciously, “What are you doing in my apartment?” Or (Fill in the blank. But in doing so, remember to factor in “you are really surprised” and “your guard is down” into your response.)

Okay. For those who cannot tell it without the label:

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BTW, I am NOT defending the LEO. All the above is meant to do is pose a plausible scenario for the event without going down the “something else is going on” rabbit hole. It also is meant to point out that the focus on nearly reflexive, “muscle memory”-level, combat style shooting practice may not be serving LEOs as well as it could.