Amber Guyger and Botham Jean
I DON’T
get how a 30 y/o Dallas Police Officer (Amber R. Guyger) could possibly mistake
another apartment for her own...even if she was really, REALLY impaired. I also wonder if she was tested at the scene the
night this happened. I’m guessing, maybe not?
I also DON’T
get how it could take THREE DAYS for
her to be arrested after she shot and killed a neighbor in HIS apartment, claiming she mistook the unit for her own and the
man for an intruder.
AND...I
REALLY DON’T GET how Officer Guyger
was charged with...(gulp!)...manslaughter!
HOW
does ANY of that happen?
This is NOT
what I’d call “police violence,” it’s something else. Amber Guyger was off duty
and acting as a resident of an apartment complex and not a cop.
How impaired does someone have to be to come home
drunk, or drugged enough to mistake a neighbor’s apartment for her own and then
shoot that neighbor, after “mistaking HIM
for an intruder.”
NONE
of that makes any sense at all, to me.
I wonder IF the Dallas PD can be counted on to
thoroughly investigate this incident.
I mean IF
Ms. Amber Guyger and Mr. Botham Jean had an...un-neighborly co-existence? Under
those conditions, this would take on a very different patina...like a 1st
degree murder patina.
Maybe I'm cynical, but the "mistaken
identity" story makes no sense, while the "I hate my neighbor"
scenario does.
As it stands, I DON’T
get how this is being charged as manslaughter right now. Her gun didn’t go off
accidentally.
SHE
entered the wrong apartment.
SHE
shot the resident in HIS own
apartment after an unwarranted entry.
Hmmmm, THAT
sounds like 2nd degree murder to me.
Think of how the charges would’ve played out had a
drunken Botham Jean wandered into Amber Guyger’s apartment and shot her to
death after “mistaking her for an intruder.”
Do you think THAT
would’ve been charged as manslaughter?
Do you think it would’ve taken 3 whole days to make
an arrest in that instance?
I’m thinking...NOT.
