What should she be charged with?

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***I’m not sure if this is allowed or not. If it isn’t, please delete it and I apologize but I am actually outraged about every part of this and I wanted some mature people to discuss it with. I apologize if some of this isn’t accurate. It’s what I know to be true from the many articles and interviews I’ve been through over the last few hours***

I’m putting a link on here to a news article about it. I’ve spent the last three hours researching it after I heard about the new trial on the radio.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/us/amber-guyger-dallas-police.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1057706

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/09/23/us/amber-guyger-murder-trial-botham-jean/index.html

Multiple articles and radio stations have said that there were multiple differences between her apartment and his. The most important being that they were on two different floors. The walkways were lit at night. Jean had a large, bright red doormat outside of his door while Guyger had no doormat. The parking garage on the 4th floor, where Jean lived, was open whereas the one on the 3rd floor, where Guyger lived, was closed. Apparently a malfunction with the door was the only reason Guyger even got into the apartment. (Witnesses say they heard shouting like someone yelling “let me in” multiple times before the shots were fired). She walked over the doormat into the apartment on the front floor. Apparently called out to Jean for him to identify himself and he refused. She fired two shots. One of them missed, the other fatally struck Jean in the chest. She blamed the multiple mistakes on being tired from a long shift.

I have personally mistaken my neighbors apartment for my own when I got off work after a 12 hour shift. I didn’t realize my mistake until the poor man ripped his door open and asked me what I was doing at his door at 4:00am (I worked third shift). I had parked on the opposite side of where I usually do and our building layouts here are exactly the same. I was on the right floor, just the wrong side. I had just moved in a few days before. When he asked me what I was doing, I didn’t try to hurt him. I didn’t make him identify himself. I realized my mistake because the 4 feet behind him inside the apartment that I could see, didn’t have my furniture. Even though it was dark, breezeway lights are a magical thing. I apologized (still do every time I see him) and moved on. I have had my conceal carry since I was working third shift. My encounter wasn’t in the news because I didn’t act on emotion. Yes, I was startled. Yes, for a split second I thought there was a strange man in my apartment. I did not act on impulse when someone’s life could be in my hands. When you own a gun of any kind, especially if you are a law enforcement officer like Guyger was, you have to be responsible. It’s not an option. Let’s say she 100% believed without a doubt that it was her apartment and he broke in. You have got to be responsible enough to notice your surroundings and what’s going on or you should never be able to even touch a gun. A kind, innocent man is now dead at the age of 26 because someone who wasn’t responsible enough to own a weapon did. At the end of the day that’s what happened. Tired or not, she walked into an unarmed mans apartment and shot him. I believe she should be fully punished for what happened. Officials are now claiming that they found marijuana inside Jeans apartment. This actually angers me to my soul. Unless you found evidence that it was actually her apartment and not his, it doesn’t matter what you found. The fact that this was ever even stated to me seems like they’re trying to criminalize an innocent man to lesson the anger that’s being directed at one of their “officers”. She is now fired. This isn’t the first time she has been questioned in a shooting. Hopefully this is the last.

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