Hey, Amber Guyger, you just got fired from the Dallas Police Department. What are you going to do now?
“I’m going to work in McKinney!”
Ted Cruz was using this case as a way to beat up on Beto O’Rourke claiming that he is anti law enforcement. Be he shifts tactics or denies he said it.
She went back to the front door? To get better reception, or to see what apartment she was actually in?
I should hope so! She has no business on the police force.
Good. I guess she’ll have to foot her own legal bills now without the help of her department. They must have internal knowledge that she’s full of shit. Finally they realized it was fish or cut bait. She was a bad cop and a liability.
They also have knowledge of whether she was drinking or otherwise using substances before going home after work.
Can they up the charge from manslaughter to murder now that she’s no longer a cop?
I’m surprised she got fired, if only because police unions are pretty adept at preventing that from happening.
But this wraps up the implausibility of her whole story:
When she put her key in the apartment door, which was unlocked and slightly ajar, it opened, the affidavit said
I don’t know about anyone else, but when a door is “slightly ajar”, I don’t try to put the key into it. I push it open. In order for her to put her key into an already open door, she’d have to keep the door from opening further while trying to get the key in the lock.
Internal knowledge that the union must agree with.
Or Southlake
Her entire story fell apart pretty quickly.
Who really is confused about which apartment is theirs unless they are extremely drunk?
Key card I believe. The reader may not require any pressure.
But it sounds like she may not have noticed the door ajar at first.
But really this account is too sketchy to tell much - it doesn’t even say when she killed him. But it sure sounds like she could and should have retreated if she believed a strange person was in her apartment and called in for an on-duty officer.
The important facts here are that someone walked into someone else’s apartment and shot them dead. When the police arrived, she was not cuffed or even taken into custody. She was allowed to walk freely around the crime scene as if it were an actual crime involved police shooting and not a simple unwarranted homicide. Then, she returned home and turned herself in 3 days later with no questioning up to that point. Then the police searched the murder victim’s apartment, found some pot and made sure to leak that to the press.
We talk about privilege, but their is no privilege like police privilege. The treatment of this person after she walked into a stranger’s apartment and shot him dead is completely unconscionable and inconsistent with every single thing that should have happened in this case. Anyone else would have been cuffed, taken downtown and questioned immediately. Getting fired, in this context, is almost laughable.
I pretty much always assumed she must have been drunk or high to go to the wrong floor of her building.
I don’t think it’s laughable at all. The Police Union makes it very difficult to fire cops.
We have a good police department in Dallas. We have a great progressive mayor and unless you have been to City Council meetings on this subject or heard them on the radio you are not talking from a place of knowledge.
I am simply saying that no one else would have been treated this way following this kind of incident. Imagine a nurse coming home after a 12 hour shift, walking into the wrong apartment and killing the rightful occupant. Would he or she have been allowed to simply hand over their gun and go home? I don’t think so.
No but it’s different with cops and everyone knows that. I agree but there isn’t much we can do about cops’ special status.
The City is doing the right things.
Here’s a quote from Sgt. Michael Mata the president of Dallas Police Union.
Sgt. Mike Mata, president of Dallas’ largest police employee organization, the Dallas Police Association, on Saturday called for an “open, transparent and full investigation of the event,” the Dallas Morning News reported. He described Jean as an “amazing individual” and said that “if the grand jury deems necessary, this officer should have to answer for her actions in a court of law in Dallas County.” 09/09/18
I’ve got say that his statement is much more forthright with regards to letting the process proceed as opposed to blindly defending Guyger.
Well, this account sounds like she followed him into his apartment and shot him before he could turn on the lights and lock his door.