She pushed on the door and it swung open, so there is no "breaking". Doors swinging open is what one expects when one is trying to enter one's apartment.
Calling it a "crime" is making light of what constitutes a crime.
Again, I disagree. I don't expect the door to just swing open. I expect that I have to turn the deadbolt with a key, and then in a separate operation turn the knob lock with a key, before the door swings open.
“Calling it a “crime” is making light of what constitutes a crime”
When you kill someone in their own home when they have done nothing wrong,
you have no reason to be in that home,
and you have not even been invited into that home,
THAT DAMN WELL IS A CRIME!
Someone needlessly died and the lady cop was at fault at every step of the incident.
The man was innocent and doing no harm to anyone and in his own home. He has no fault in this.
By the way, none of this has a damn thing to do with Race.
Her version of the story indicates the door was open. Neighbor statements indicate loud knocking and shouting. Distinctive red carpeting in his apartment. Locked or not, she still entered illegally and there are no provisions in the law for singularly just “breaking” or just “entering” . Does not matter - it’s still murder and the jury was likely instructed as such.
The door could have been completely off the hinges and down in the maintenance man’s shop but the second she stepped across the threshold, she “broke” the threshold and was “breaking and entering”.
“Breaking and Entering” doesn’t exist in Texas law.
It is criminal trespass. There is no requirement that any amount of force be used to enter the property for it to be a crime.