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.
(Excerpt) Read more at star-telegram.com ...
“Her key didn’t work in the door,” Steve Eager wrote. “Shooting happened
shortly after resident opened his own door.”
Like a lot of you older FReeps I’m of the opinion that women should not be cops. They are not wired for it as this case proves. A lot of men couldn’t handle it either but it’s for males only who could.
She never stepped into the wrong apartment. She was trying her key in what she though was her lock when a black man opened the door from inside.
So she shot him.
Wouldn’t you? (do I need a sarcasm tag?)
Point conceeded.
When your key doesn’t work in the door, then it’s time to come out of your autopilot trance and look at the apartment number. That was her fatal mistake.
His mistake was opening the door before clearly understanding who was there. Never do that in a big city building - that is what peepholes, video cameras, and intercoms are for.
Swell, Benjamin Crump has arrived and is co-counsel. We don’t know exactly what happened yet, but already the race angle is being pushed out there. He sounded almost illiterate in the press conference.
I’m 70 and I’ve been badly drunk a few times (when I was young). But I’ve never been so drunk that I wouldn’t recognize my own house or apartment if and when I walked up to the front door, or mistake someone else’s for mine. Not even close. I don’t think it’s possible. That’s why I’m calling BS on this BS police version of what happened that night.
The Donut Shoppe-Policeman Alliance Fund?
Yeah, what do they think this is, California?
Your key works in someone else’s lock?
Has it been determined that the police officer even lived in the same location but on another floor of the building? It seems someone ought to go check that out first. Possibly could be done online.
How did she push wrong button on elevator and then go to wrong apartment where the door was open (when she left hers locked)?
Then not ask before shooting?
Possibly.
We would still be in JAIL WITH NO BOND !!!
3 minuets MAYBE...
Let’s Pray that she doesn’t get away with this COLD BLOODED MURDER.
Be We must be prepared that she will.
Sad but probably true.
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.
I think mistaking another’s apartment for your own is more common than a lot of folks think.
I think she went to the wrong apartment, thinking it was her own. She put the key in the lock and tried to open the door. But the door was already unlocked (or the man unlocked it and she didn’t hear it) and the occupant opened the door (wondering who was at the door) as she swung it in.
A surprised man and a surprised police officer startle one another, neither one expecting the other. He makes a sudden move (raises his arms and/or attempts to walk out or jump back). She pulls her revolver, thinking she’s being attacked or robbed, and shoots him.
When I first heard the story, I wondered that the decor alone should have told her she was in the wrong apartment and she should have left immediately. But then it occurred to me that would happen only if the door was already unlocked. Otherwise she shouldn’t be able to open it with her key. Then the surprise scenario occurred to me.
Yes! That is exactly how it could happen.
It’s a very well lighted, nice, well kept Complex called South Side Apartments. There are pics on the Threads here and in the Articles in the Snewz and Snewzpapers.
This is news to me. That squares with what I was thinking...
Still guilty
Buh bye Felicia
Thank You, Sir.
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