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Maraya1969

(23,023 posts)
1. Isn't it obvious this is manslaughter? I thought manslaughter is when you kill someone
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 08:04 AM
Oct 2019

but don't mean to do it. That women seem truly horrified at what she did.

The problem is, once again, our country's obsession with guns and shooting things.

I think years ago they did not teach the police to shoot to kill. If they taught these police how to shoot just to stop someone that would solve a lot of problems. But now they assume that everyone has a damn gun of their own so they have to kill them!

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
2. She WAS horrified the night she shot him... of what would happen to her +was down the hallway when
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 08:24 AM
Oct 2019

police arrived per court testimony
Did not stay with him after shooting . He was still alive

https://kfor.com/2019/09/24/dallas-officers-testify-on-amber-guyger-cpr-efforts-and-alleged-special-treatment-after-botham-jean-shooting/

When you listen critically to what she is saying, you are going to hear that she is as concerned or more concerned about how this is going to affect her than this poor guy on the floor next to her,” Hermus told jurors.

While she was on the phone with a 911 operator, she also sent texts to her partner on the force, with whom she was intimate, saying, “I need you hurry” and “I f***ed up,” Hermus said. While investigators were able to recover those texts, Hermus said, they were unable to obtain others because Guyger allegedly deleted them in the day or two after the shooting.

Rather than texting a lover, Hermus said, Guyger should have devoted 100% of her attention to providing first aid — or at the very least, comfort — as Jean lay wounded on the floor.

Hermus also sought to show that Guyger violated protocol by opening fire in the first place. Jean was on his couch in his shorts, watching TV and eating vanilla ice cream when Guyger walked through the front door, Hermus

Maraya1969

(23,023 posts)
3. OK, I understand. But I thought texts could be retrieved even after they were deleted??
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 09:02 AM
Oct 2019
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