are you fucking kidding me?
This is a trained cop who showed poor judgement. Too busy sexting with her colleagues to realize it's not her apartment, and too trigger happy that she shot a dude eating ice cream watching TV.
Fuck that shit, hope she rots in prison.
Was she? Cuz it sounds like a drunk move.
I live in a multi-floor complex and have twice accidentally pushed the 3rd floor on the elevator leading me to attempt to open the condo one floor below.
This is a trained cop who showed poor judgement.
I can't see how they chose murder over manslaughter though
After shooting the guy, she did little to render aid. She had been trained in de-escalation about eight months prior and testified that she didn’t remember any takeaways from the training. She had been having an affair with her married partner. The jury may have disliked her enough to be influenced by that to some extent.
It may have all added up to a degree of negligence that crossed the manslaughter threshold.
She told investigators that she parked on the fourth floor of her apartment complex's garage — rather than the third floor, where she lived
That's kind of what I keep going back to. How many times has she used her "trained" eye in the conviction of someone for a crime?
In this case; she can't discern she's on a different floor, she's entering a different apartment, the red rug, the different furnishings... She's so hyper focused on the man in "her" apartment, she can't see the forest?
I can't see how they chose murder over manslaughter though
I live in a multi-floor complex and have twice accidentally pushed the 3rd floor on the elevator leading me to attempt to open the condo one floor below.
IT HAPPENS!!
I have also on two occasions heard someone try to open my door. I assume it is the same issue, but would have ended badly for whomever opened the door.
So I believe completely that she could have mistaken the man for a trespasser, and quite possibly we have sent someone to jail who doesn't deserve to be there.
Manslaughter, 10 years
If simply a text or comment in private or in joking could send us to jail.......we'd all have a prison record.
After we murdered a guy eating ice cream in his apartment, yeah. Funny, I don't have any racist txts in my history......
Why is it murder?
Good for you, pat yourself on the back. I'm sure you're not a liar either.
Why is it murder?
Good for you, pat yourself on the back. I'm sure you're not a liar either.
If I walked in to what I thought was my apartment and I was carrying and someone was inside I'd be hard pressed not to start shooting.
I live in a multi-floor complex and have twice accidentally pushed the 3rd floor on the elevator leading me to attempt to open the condo one floor below.
IT HAPPENS!!
I have also on two occasions heard someone try to open my door. I assume it is the same issue, but would have ended badly for whomever opened the door.
After we murdered a guy eating ice cream in his apartment, yeah. Funny, I don't have any racist txts in my history......