What's the first thing you do when you enter your dark apartment? You turn on the light, right? Also, blindfolded, I know my house by smell, the feel of my doorknob in my hand, the way the door sticks or doesn't, etc. Maybe she's just an insensate moron, which is another reason not to let her be a cop.
I watched that debate. And I was very disappointed in Beto's response. Ted went on an on about how cops protect us, risk their lives, and pulled out the kleenex for a couple of cops who had been shot (which had nothing to do with this), all to show how Beto supposedly didn't care about cops.
Beto needed to bring up the simple point that this person was NOT acting in her role as a police officer. She wasn't responding to a call. She didn't have probably cause to enter. She wasn't on duty. She didn't stumble on to a crime while off duty and use her police powers to intervene. She was a private citizen who wandered in to someone else's house for no reason and shot him. She was an intruder and he would have been within his rights to use deadly force against her in the great state of Texas.
Mindlessly defending cops who do horrible things WHILE ON DUTY and ACTING AS COPS is bad enough. But this is basically saying that just because someone was sworn in, they can do anything they please AT ANY TIME. That's pretty much the definition of a police state and Beto should have made that clear distinction. Texans love their police, but they hate government overreach. That Cruz claimed to have "a libertarian streak" later in the debate was laughable.
It is entirely possible she went to the wrong apt even with the red doormat. My son lived in a similar situation and the doormats didn't always help ID. People just not focusing and on automatic. That she parked on the wrong floor, and the apartment is exactly above hers really lends credence to her story. All of that will be verfied by locks and some cameras.
What is the issue here is how this should be handled if her story is verified. Who immediately starts shooting at just a figure in ones place? She had to get out her gun, she yelled out directions as a cop, and shot when the figure did not comply (and who would in own apartment?)
I don't believe she went up there just to blow him away. But her reaction is way overblown, and she should have some consequence for this. Manslaughter is probably what is going to hold. I don't see a jury convicting her of murder. It takes just one juror for her to walk. If people want time for her, manslaughter smart way to go. Can impose long sentence for manslaughter too vs her walking from murder charge.
He resigned. Made it easy. They're holding the resignation letter (which he just had to date) while they decide whether they should fire him or if it's to their advantage to keep him.
Agency must cover civil liability IF acting within course and scope of employment
Off duty could either way, as she fired department gun in uniform Di
A light switch
Cream of Mushroom 🍄?
“No Soup Pron For You!!”
It takes one to know one
And they watched “Real Housewives of Toad Lick Kentucky?”
You do not fire unless you have clearly identified your target Anyone who doesn’t get that should not come within 100 yards of a firearm
I’ll sit this round out
He looked like my guinea pig nibbling on a poop pellet
Has Guyger filed a union grievance yet?
What's the first thing you do when you enter your dark apartment? You turn on the light, right? Also, blindfolded, I know my house by smell, the feel of my doorknob in my hand, the way the door sticks or doesn't, etc. Maybe she's just an insensate moron, which is another reason not to let her be a cop.
I watched that debate. And I was very disappointed in Beto's response. Ted went on an on about how cops protect us, risk their lives, and pulled out the kleenex for a couple of cops who had been shot (which had nothing to do with this), all to show how Beto supposedly didn't care about cops.
Beto needed to bring up the simple point that this person was NOT acting in her role as a police officer. She wasn't responding to a call. She didn't have probably cause to enter. She wasn't on duty. She didn't stumble on to a crime while off duty and use her police powers to intervene. She was a private citizen who wandered in to someone else's house for no reason and shot him. She was an intruder and he would have been within his rights to use deadly force against her in the great state of Texas.
Mindlessly defending cops who do horrible things WHILE ON DUTY and ACTING AS COPS is bad enough. But this is basically saying that just because someone was sworn in, they can do anything they please AT ANY TIME. That's pretty much the definition of a police state and Beto should have made that clear distinction. Texans love their police, but they hate government overreach. That Cruz claimed to have "a libertarian streak" later in the debate was laughable.
I play with a pick - it's an electric guitar, man...
Or, ala Betty Shelby, she gets hired by the redneck police department down the road and gets to teach seminars on "Surviving a Critical Incident."
It is entirely possible she went to the wrong apt even with the red doormat. My son lived in a similar situation and the doormats didn't always help ID. People just not focusing and on automatic. That she parked on the wrong floor, and the apartment is exactly above hers really lends credence to her story. All of that will be verfied by locks and some cameras.
What is the issue here is how this should be handled if her story is verified. Who immediately starts shooting at just a figure in ones place? She had to get out her gun, she yelled out directions as a cop, and shot when the figure did not comply (and who would in own apartment?)
I don't believe she went up there just to blow him away. But her reaction is way overblown, and she should have some consequence for this. Manslaughter is probably what is going to hold. I don't see a jury convicting her of murder. It takes just one juror for her to walk. If people want time for her, manslaughter smart way to go. Can impose long sentence for manslaughter too vs her walking from murder charge.
He resigned. Made it easy. They're holding the resignation letter (which he just had to date) while they decide whether they should fire him or if it's to their advantage to keep him.