Amber Guyger is the Dallas police officer who killed a man when she entered what she mistakenly thought was her apartment
Daily Mail
September 9, 2018
A white policewoman who gunned down a black accountant in Texas has been identified as new video emerges of the frantic moments after the officer mistakenly entered his home thinking it was hers and opened fire.
Amber Guyger, 30, was identified as the off-duty officer who shot 26-year-old Botham Jean in an apartment block in south Dallas on Thursday night.
Instagram footage posted by a neighbor shows the female uniformed officer crying into her phone on a walkway of the apartment block. She is heard screaming 'oh God!' into the phone before she dashes away out of view. Moments later, the victim is pulled past on a gurney as medics desperately try to revive him.
Dallas police on Saturday revealed Guyger had worked for Dallas Police Department for four years on the Southeast Patrol Division.
Dallas police initially said they would seek her arrest on manslaughter charges but then handed the case over to the Texas Rangers, who asked for more time to investigate new information that had only recently emerged.
4 comments:
The Texas Rangers are charging her with manslaughter.
One news report last night said it was the "same" apartment only one floor off. That answers one pertinent question. It will still be nice to know if her key fit his door and if the interior decorating was even remotely close.
My GUESS, based on no information whatsoever, is that there may have been a substance abuse issue here, but that could easily be wrong. It is POSSIBLE that she opened the door, saw a black man in "her" apartment, that that is all she saw. Threat, actual or perceived, can give even a trained person tunnel vision.
I am reading elsewhere that she walked home after working 17 hours, that the door was unlocked, the room was dark and she saw the man advancing towards her. A real tragedy for all involved.
More information trickles in. 15 hour shift, just moved into the complex, basically a cookie cutter designed complex, door was already opened, in her exhaustion she believed she was in her apartment and a man was burglarizing it. It's tragic for the victim and the victims family. Hearing reports that she was sobbing and repeatedly saying sorry, she thought it was her apartment. I too hope she receives a fair trial, because when you read what we know so far, this appears to be exactly what we thought, a tragic accident. Yes, negligent, but no intent on her part, at least to me, that she purposely killed a man for no reason.
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