There aren’t any winners here. A man, who should be alive, is dead, and a woman who never should have shot him, and WOULDN’T have, if she’d been more alert, is going to be sent away, to a decidedly miserable place, for several years.
What would YOU do, if confronted by a man with a gun pointed at you, when you thought you were in the doorway of your own apartment, which in dim light, looks like every other apartment? I think she should have been convicted of manslaughter, NOT murder.
I fully agree that there aren’t any winners here. It was a horrific incident where an innocent man in his own apartment was killed. And I won’t deny that Guyger made errors, errors which were made by many other residents in the apartment complex. But she was not INTENDING to shoot an innocent man in his own apartment. Does anyone think that she thought she would get away with such an irrational scheme? And was there some kind of “moment of passion” that caused this, other than alarm at an erroneous realization?
And I agree, manslaughter, or even less, criminally negligent homicide, would have been a more appropriate charge. That’s why the murder conviction is so over-the-top and will likely be overturned on appeal.
I’m predicting that the BLM mob will still riot and cause civil unrest; in “celebration.”