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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Shouldn’t Apt #s have been on the doors? Has any report said that was not the case?
Yeah, so you think it’s broke, etc. Takes a second or two for that red flashing light, that key that won’t turn, or whatever to turn into a realization that you are at the wrong apartment door.
another posted article on FR says police say she drove up too many levels in parking garage got out and walked over to what (one level down) would have been her apartment.
so no elevator, no interior halls mentioned. seems it was an outside door but she was a floor ABOVE her own apartment.
article posted on FR few days ago had neighbors saying loud voice saying “open up open up” (imo musta been her getting mad that her key wasn’t working. I also think that is likely want may have had the man open the door to see what was going on, but it got him shot dead)
A light fixture to the side of each door displays the apartment number.
Another tragedy from affirmative action if you ask me
Looks like she has a lot of southern heritage; very, very southern — as in central.
My experience is that these electronic keys frap out a lot, either becoming “maybe-ish” or not working at all. So, she’s dead tired (who knows what she did B4 going to work, and fatigue can even cause hallucinations - I’ve driven myself to very mild such a few times myself.) Attempts with key at door rouse victim, he makes some sort of noise, officer (still thinking apt. is hers) draws weapon - recipe for disaster, and it happened.
That is pure speculation - the actual sequence may be far more “interesting”. Not that it should have happened!
Even if it wasn’t her apartment, how did she get in? How many of us, living in an apartment complex, don’t lock the door?
Is that possible? Yes. Likely? I’m thinking, No.
I could be wrong, but I thought she said that she had just come home from work.
She’s a cop. Not sure how long she’s been on. Does she have a master key. Because, if I got home and my apartment door was open, the first I’m looking for is damage at the lock to see if the door had been kicked in and then I’m doing some room clearing.
She’s lying.
I don’t think any cops carry revolvers anymore.
Alright. ...Or whatever their sidearm is.
I wish reporters on this story would say that! Good point.
Just think, she's at the wrong apartment, and the black resident opens the door. She is in full uniform as a cop. As a good upstanding citizen (resident is a hard working accountant), he is not going to attack a cop at his doorway. He presents no danger to the cop, other than her fears and possible bias towards blacks.
A normal cop doesn't blindly shoot. There are other ways to deal with her thoughts of a black man answering what she thought was her apartment, certainly non-lethal ways to diffuse the situation. The man presented no danger to her.
She shot him twice, that's deadly force. And that was certainly stupid.
The guy is a recent graduate of a USA college.
Since he is from a Caribbean island, and he is working for a USA corporation in Dallas, that most likely means he has an OPT or H-1B work visa.
Ok, warm blooded Murder.
I want the TRUTH !
I don’t particularly need a Hanging.
“The truth.” Dumbledore sighed. “It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
Did they do a drug test?
They ARE doing drug tests.
I KNEW this would be turned into a “racism” event.
This entire thing seems entirely implausible. If it was an accident, the woman must have been in some sort of daze, or tremendously preoccupied with thought or some sort of distraction. Her presence of mind had left her for some reason.
There's a new twist I'd not seen in previous articles. I'd been thinking previously that it's not entirely unreasonable for her to accidentally walk into the wrong apartment.
This seems to be the one case in 100 where the shooting victim is probably innocent and the police officer is entirely at fault. If the policewoman's best excuse is that she walked into the wrong apartment thinking it was her own, she's either lying, extremely stupid, or extremely intoxicated. Actually, scratch the last one - no matter how much I had to drink in my younger days, I never once walked into the wrong house by mistake.
A likely scenario. Some are too quick to judge here, just like the Ambulance Chasers Merritt and Crump
Guilty automatically because the victim was black and the shooter was Whitey The Cop
How does anyone other than the cop know what his reaction was upon seeing a cop, if he did at all?
Let the facts play out. And recognize the typical racial hysteria from the usual actors and their lapdog media
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