TheGreenHornet
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This is just not something I can really defend. I get it that you can't say this is a clear cut case of murder..... but.... I can't really defend this either.
An officer walked in the wrong house, and shot a law abiding citizen in his own house.
Now accident or not, this office caused the whole thing. This isn't a case where some guy runs at an officer, or tries to attack the officer and steal his gun, or refuses to submit to arrest and is choked to death, or has a realistic replica with the orange tip blacked out.
99 times out of a 100, I'll side with the officer, but this.... the officer just went into someone's home and shot someone. I just can't defend that.
You can say that "Well it was confusing, and not well marked" but again... as a person with responsibility, it's on you to make sure you are going in the right house.
And if what I read was true, that the officer in question had accidentally gone to the wrong house in the past.... then I'd think I would make even more effort to verify which apartment was mine, knowing that is a problem.
And additionally, knowing I had accidentally gone to the wrong home in the past, I would have thought twice when I opened the door and found strangers in that home. I would think... oh I must be at the wrong place. Not default to pulling a gun and shooting people.
So I want to give this officer a chance.... but I don't see it here. I don't see any reason to give the benefit of the doubt.
Obviously is there is more evidence than what I've read thus far, then I reserve the right to change my mind. But from what I see at this point... no, this is all on the officer.
First all this officer as far as I know had never gone into the wrong apartment before...but many in that complex had made the same mistake she made.
If she was going to be charged with anything it should have been negligent homicide...certainly not murder...in order to have murder you must have malice.
But the black guy was negligent also...failed to lock his front door. How many folks living in apartment complexes do that? In addition he failed to follow the lawful orders of a police officer....she hollered for him to show his hands...he refused to do so.
It it not "negligence" to not lock your door. I'm looking at my unlocked door right now. Most people I know leave their doors unlocked when they're home and awake.
She was not giving lawful orders as a police officer. She was off-duty, out of uniform, and illegally in this man's house. He had absolutely no reason to know she was a cop, or what she was doing in his apartment.
If you fail to lock your doors and most especially in an apartment complex that is being negligent. Police as mentioned before constantly are telling people to lock their doors and cars. Now of course as also previously posted you are not legally negligent...just negligent in common sense.
She was in uniform and the black guy must have noticed that....she gave him a legal order to show his hands he refused to do that and advanced on her.
A arrest affidavit further reveals that Jean’s door was unlocked, and it was dark inside when Guyger entered his apartment. She allegedly thought he was a burglar when she saw a person in the dark, shooting Jean a single time in the chest after she told authorities he ignored verbal commands. The Dallas Morning News reported that she had just worked a 15-hour shift.
She was off duty but that is irrelevant...she was not trespassing...the definition of trespassing has been posted.
Having said that I am not blaming the black guy....he was no doubt suprised, shocked or whatever that a police woman was in his apartment all of a sudden and may not have reacted in a very rational manner because he was surprised and had no idea of what was going on.
Bottom Line: a tragic mistake made worse by a miscarriage of justice.....can anyone say karma?
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