Posted on 10/01/2019 8:55:22 AM PDT by CaptainK
Amber Guyer guilty of murder, Just announced on FOX News
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In the men's prison.
You know, since she couldn't tell a man's home from hers.
“Amber Guyger is really way down my near the bottom of my list.”
I can appreciate that, but OTOH, you’re saying you have little sympathy for those essentially wrongly accused/libeled/slandered?
I’d have said the same, if it was up to me to make the charge, but there’s no doubt she did absolutely everything wrong in the situation. I’m not going to disagree with the jury here.
This has been a strange story from the beginning.
Years ago a neighbor came into our house in the middle of the night thinking it was hers. She had a different driveway, different yard, different house. Yet she parked, came through the yard, opened the front door, came in the living room. At that point our dog was going nuts. We had been asleep in the back of the house. When we came down the hall she was yelling at the dog to get out...as if he was a stray. Only when my husband and I got to the living room did she realize she was in the wrong house. She even thought she had a stray dog in her house!
That neighbor was very, very drunk. She was also exhausted before getting drunk because she had been working a lot of hours, and she was under stress at work. I think all of that is why she ended up in our living room, ignoring all the signs that she was not at her own house.
Our neighbor was terribly embarrassed, but she was not an armed police officer thinking she was interrupting a burglary in progress at her house, so we didn’t get shot. We were armed but we were not drunk, confused so we didn’t shoot her.
From the start I have thought this police officer was likely exhausted, and under the influence of something when this happened. I did not follow the trial, so don’t know if any of that came out but to me that is the only explanation I can think of.
I do think it was murder, don’t believe for a minute she planned to murder her black neighbor because he was black- don’t believe she planned to murder the man for any reason. I think her mind was not functioning right and she did think she was stopping a burglary in her home.
I think she was rightfully convicted, obviously her condition at the time still does not give her the right to go into someone else’s home and kill them.
He was holding the ice cream in a threatening fashion.
So if I deem that my neighbor’s door lock is not installed correctly, it is your opinion that I can just walk into their house?
It was manslaughter. But the jury has spoken. Amber is guilty of murder. So be it.
Texas only has one manslaughter ..except for a separate crime called intoxication manslaughter
Murder there in Texas is two sets of charges
Capital and simple Murder
Both murder and manslaughter can be enhanced or lightened given circumstance
The intent to kill is the key to murder charges
And I suppose that’s what they proved here
My guess is she shot him up pretty bad beyond threat neutralized
This was very political as usual in the era of identity politics
Gender doesn’t trump race.
She faces 5-99 years
Murder in Texas only requires intent to kill
There was a bright red floor mat outside his door. She missed that?
Agreed. Nothing about her story made sense.
No, but we know she walked in and shot an unarmed guy in his own home. The degree of her guilt does not matter much to me because on a scale of 1-100, she already used up at least 98% of her points by actively taking an innocent life. I don't care about her remaining 2%.
Maybe she was on a diet.
Responsibility2nd is predicting 5 years with 2 served for good behavior.
5-99 seems a quite large range. Is it up to the judge?
And this also points to the case here locally last month when a drunken fool INSISTED his “friends” let him into their house. He ended up dead, though as the owners finally had enough and shot him. No charges.
Turns out he was wandering around drunk at night away from his friend’s pool party down driveway. The neighbor also had a pool.
Drunk will do ALOT of stupid.
(Another reason I just do not see the attraction of alcohol.)
A panicky woman or scared scrawny man is a dangerous thing with a gun
I used to have a deposits collector who was five six and scrawny and nervous
He carried a smith 15 cap 9mm with CCW when doing rounds...
I’d tease him don’t shoot anyone you don’t have to please
That's really the underlying problem here. "Everything you heard" is only what came out of her own mouth.
Sh!t -- if it's that easy to get away with killing someone, we'd be doing it with boring regularity.
Not a good combination for a police officer.
Aren’t they all?
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