Posted on 09/09/2018 6:47:45 PM PDT by pnz1
A 30-year old off-duty Dallas police officer has been arrested and charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of 26-year-old Botham Shem Jean on Thursday night.
Four-year Dallas police veteran Amber Guyger was taken into custody at 7:20 p.m., according to Kaufman County jail records.
Guyger’s Bond was set at $300,000 and she posted bail less than an hour after being arrested, jail records stated.
Moments earlier on Sunday, Jean’s family attorney Lee Merritt met with Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson presenting new evidence and demanding that Guyger be taken into custody.
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Normally I'd agree with you, because 99% of the time the "innocent black killed by racist whitey cop" stories are distortions or outright lies. However, the fact that this police officer's story is that she walked into the wrong apartment by accident seems absurd. When is the last time you walked into someone else's house on accident thinking it was your own?
Did she actually walk in? I haven’t seen that.
“Had he shot her for breaking and entering his apartment, he would still be locked-up, and would not be getting out anytime in this century”
You’re full of S*** on that one. This was in Texas, he would have been in the right. You have jumped to a lot of conclusions on little or no facts on this thread
Guilty automatically because the victim was black and the shooter was Whitey The Cop.
Point to on eFR post that says that. One.
Could be.
Keep Yer Powder dry.
His Family is Gov’t or Retired/Connected to Gov’t in St. Martin ? IIRC.
“Did she actually walk in? I haven’t seen that.”
Maybe she just blasted him from the hallway.
She still had no reason or excuse to be shooting.
Put in the hands of a Dallas County jury.
I just don’t like the chances of a person charged with shooting a cop who is in their uniform.
I was referring to Merritt, Crump, family, et al.
Not FR
You don’t know that, Sue. You don’t know what movements or noises or words that might’ve been made in the split seconds
That area has undergone gentrification but it is surrounded by the worst of Dallas
“You don’t know that, Sue. You don’t know what movements or noises or words that might’ve been made in the split seconds.”
He was in his very own apartment, he can say what ever he wants.
“That area has undergone gentrification but it is surrounded by the worst of Dallas.”
If Officer Amber plays the Gentrification Defense, that Dallas County jury will send her away for decades.
Shooting a police officer in uniform? He'd be in prison and would never breath free air again.
Her victim's family is spending their Sunday night making funeral arrangements. What must THAT be like?
Because there has never, ever been an incompetent white male cop, has there?
“Because there has never, ever been an incompetent white male cop, has there?”
Just a couple weeks ago, a Dallas County jury sent an incompetence cop to prison.
In his own apartment? You’re delusional in your cop hatred there.
That would have been cut and dried justified shooting by the rightful inhabitant. The cop here effed up bad, no doubt, but wait for some facts. Manslaughter seems reasonable at present. Murder, no way with what little is known
Not at all. The story is already being crafted to justify her shooting an unarmed man: Dallas Officer Claims Botham Jean Ignored Her ‘Verbal Commands’.
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