What We Know Within 48 Hours

Either they're as incompetent at their jobs as Emperor Poopypants is with Parkinsonian dementia, minus that excuse.

Or their deliberate attempt to get Trump assassinated on Saturday is just as incompetent.

There is no third option to explain what happened.

Kimberly Cheatle, please do America a favor, and eat your gun.
You know it's the only acceptable answer.

A Badge, A Gun, And Maybe 70 IQ points

We didn't plan on this post. It just happened. We don't hate the police. We don't love them. We mostly understand they have a thankless, dirty job most days, and try to work with them. And realize that some of them are really good guys, and some of them are asswipes, and we give them the benefit of the doubt unless and until they prove to be the latter. Pretty much like we expect they do in their jobs too.

We point out for the record that the entire reason this blog has illustrations and memes homemade by your host in shop class in the first place began specifically with the douchebadge actions of a couple of overwhelmingly @$$holish cops in Salt Lake City, when they arrested an ER nurse for refusing to violate the Constitution, state law, hospital policy, written police procedure, professional medical ethics, and common sense, by refusing to violate an unconscious patient's civil rights at the demand of those same badged and sworn @$$holes, long-since fired and demoted for that particular jackassery.

We bring this up because as we had just finished our last shift for the week, and were minding our own business and driving home this morning, when we noticed someone running barefoot up the street, in (some of) their scanty clothes, and still wearing what looked like a hospital wristband, moving at a respectable rate of speed away from the hospital for early in the AM.

We pulled over up the street, and called the front desk security officer on duty from our car.

"Are we perchance missing anyone who may have run out of the hospital in some of their clothes?"

"What color clothes?"

We described them.

"Bingo! That's the psych patient who just ran out the back door!"

So, we proceeded to follow the patient at a discreet distance, so as not to spook them, and notified 9-1-1 we had eyeballs on an escaped mental patient, on a legal hold (meaning they are either a danger to themself, others, or simply too cray-cray to manage their daily affairs), and kept them in sight to direct the local constables to apprehend them, and return them to medical care as quickly, simply, and safely as possible.

We gave the po-po dispatch a stellar description, exact location, and followed the pt. for two measured miles on foot for most of an hour, giving them a play-by-play, until said patient ducked into a residential block around a corner with multiple possible routes out, before we got to that corner. We lost our quarry at that point, but the constabulary's minions quickly found the patient walking nearby, made contact, and detained them.

Whereupon they ascertained that the person was the exact patient we had described and followed, confirmed name and birthdate with hospital staff, and confirmed that the patient was indeed on a psych eval hold before escaping our care.

And then the stupid motherfuckers, the pride of county law enforcement, for reasons known but to God and the hamsters in their otherwise empty heads, let the escaped psych patient go free. 

Absolutely. M*****f***ing. F-R-E-E.

Guys who wouldn't let you talk your way out of a ticket with your dying grandmother bleeding out her ass in the front seat, turned loose a half-dressed bona fide certified lunatic, identified to them by name.

Who knows: maybe the patient used Jedi mind tricks.

Sleep tight, America. Professionals are on the case. 

Top. Men.

It's not bad enough that these assclowns bring us every douchebag waste of skin drunk, junkie, or whackjob within 20 miles, even when they shouldn't, but that now, the one time we specifically ask the stupid bastards to bring one very specific whackjob back to the ER, and they detain that exact person, they turn them loose on society, because reasons, and a badged and sworn 70 point IQ.

So, Deputy Doofus, and Deputy Stumblefuck, this question is for you:

You had one job...

Like sounding the depths of the Marianas Trench with a fish finder, we're beginning to realize that the answer to that question cannot be ascertained with existing instrumentation.

And, full disclosure here, there are screw-ups aplenty to go around, starting with who was supposed to be watching the Nutjob in question when they scampered out the hospital door to become a law enforcement problem, and how said Nutjob got their grubby mitts on some of their own clothes, which should have been removed and secured far out of reach and not anywhere close to them. The upcoming struggle sessions fisking that series of cock-ups are going to leave a mark or two.

But like soccer, the person who touched it last is at fault, so if patient Screwloose kills themself, or anyone else, or some harm comes to them as a result of being now at liberty, the lion's share of liability now belongs overwhelmingly to the County's Finest Knuckleheads, who had a chance to fix that small problem, but instead created an even bigger one.

And also, we generally try to expedite law enforcement custody patients getting in and out ASAP, on the theory that the best place for law enforcement is not sitting around the ER waiting for us to get things done, but rather on patrol, doing their job.

No points for guessing who's going to make sure and drag out those visits henceforth as long as humanly possible for some good amount of time, and who may even let their brethren in blue know why they're now being assured of going dead last, until suitable obsequious mea culpas are delivered appropriately from the agency responsible for this grand slam of cock-ups.

In the meantime, dickheads, this one's for you:

And While We're Up:

These are the guys you're worried are coming to take away your guns??

Sheee-yit, most days some of them are lucky if they don't put their shoes and socks on in that order.

Another Day, Another Douchebadge

The first half of this video simply shows another badged lying sack-of-shit @$$hole who desperately needs to be unemployed, prosecuted, and imprisoned.

Which is about as rare in this country as grass lawns.

I can count half a dozen felonies and misdemeanors Officer Jackboots committed in a few minutes, and there's no reason why he hasn't been fired and frog-marched to jail, already, except for institutionalized corruption and brazen bureaucratic stonewalling of the obvious.

Sleep tight, America. Officer Douchebadge is on the case.

Community Policing

Divemedic has a couple of relevant posts. Go and read them, if you haven't already.

My 2¢ to those who defend the police and policing we have, and have had, for some good time:

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"The media lies" is a cop out. (No pun intended.)

We know - because we've seen the videos - what happens when a citizen screws up; anything from a quick concrete tune-up up to and including sidewalk execution (and frequently justified).

But when it isn't, the commensurate number of videos and stories of police officers getting walked out of their department like Chuck Connors at the opening of Branded, 

                         

and subsequently frog-marched into a squad car, convicted at trial, and ass-raped to death in prison afterwards should be similarly legion for the times when they screw up.

They are no such thing, nor anywhere close, because that almost never happens. You should police yourselves more harshly than the rest of us, but instead you don't do so, or do so barely at all, and only when the transgression is so egregious and virally seen as to be a virtual white-hot fireplace poker up administration's ass to push it forward.

And before Rodney King, it was twenty times worse.

The only thing that should be scarier than an ordinary citizen breaking the law, should be the spectacle of the mills of justice grinding an officer who's transgressed. Punishment should be draconian, and more fearsome than being kidnapped by drug cartels.

Instead, it's mainly wrist slaps, if it happens at all, and even then, mainly only honored in the breach. That's why departments have lists of officers with 10, 20, 50 verified major screw-ups, and even fired officers just drift to other departments, and rack up serial bad conduct rap sheets without the hammer falling until they kill somebody or make the national news, rather than being black-balled from the profession for life.

What sticks in everyone's craw isn't that the media gives cops a bad rap, it's that every police department in America uses the Catholic Church's example for dealing with child-molesting priests as their disciplinary model: sweep it under the rug, and pretend it never happened. The lump is now the height of Mt. McKinley, and that plan isn't working for you like it once did.

If it were otherwise, the blogs and YouTube videos of the hazing other officers would deliver, let alone official (metaphorical) floggings-around-the-fleet by management would be more numerous than the bad cop videos, by orders of magnitude.

That they aren't shows that the whole blue gang is in on the con, and the availability of anyone with a cell phone camera to be Paramount Pictures and CNN has shown the truth of the matter.

So has the dearth of officers going on strike for cleaner departments, or quitting and/or whistleblowing because they can't stand the corruption and mollycoddling of their fellow thugs and crooks in blue. 

That behavior is what earns Divemedic's percentage: misprision of felony, accessory after the fact, criminal conspiracy. In the penal codes of 50 states and 7 US territories.

But apparently, they don't cover this in any police academy in the nation, except with a wink and a nudge.

(And telling me about one or two exceptions doesn't disprove the other two million that never happened. Statistics are a bitch like that.)

You guys are a blue gang, pure and simple, with a Mafia-like code of silence regarding in-house problems, from simple screw-ups to criminal conspiracies and organizational corruption, and when confronted, you shrug and mumble, and walk away. If nobody got caught, it never happened.

Frank Serpico remains a cautionary tale, from coast to coast, bottom to top, and even then, only for people old enough to remember the story.

That's why nobody trusts you, and why nobody likes you. Your entire profession has squandered any trust and integrity you ever had, collectively, and you'll never get that back, short of figuratively (or literally, at this point) putting the heads of defaulters on pikes at the doors of the station house.

That would be a good start. And I'm not exaggerating.

And at the rate things are going, the people - all of them, good and the bad - are going to start doing that for you, to drive the point well home, even knowing what that means for society for some good time. You're a cure that's become far worse than the disease.

That truth may hurt, but the sting doesn't disprove the thesis.

"90% of cops are bad" is wrong.

It's probably 9% too low.

Your profession has made its bed.

Very soon now, they're going to see what it feels like to lie in it.

And the entire society will pay.

It's always the people you trust the most who fuck you the worst, and stab you in the back the hardest.

Because they're the only ones who can.

Et tu, Flatfoot?

GMTA Dept.: Hot off the presses - Evolution Of The American Police State

Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied

 h/t Middle Of The Right

Nurse arrested by Officer Douchebadge for following the law settles for $500,000.

I'm guessing mediocre lawyering. There should have been another zero there ahead of the decimal, minimum.

And, as usual, the idiots at Fox News fucked up the story by the first line: she didn't refuse to let Officer Douchebadge draw the blood. She refused his illegal demand that SHE join a criminal conspiracy to draw it HERSELF, and become an accomplice to battery on an unconscious patient, and violation of civil rights under color of authority. Pity Fox can't afford anyone with a high school diploma to look that detail up for them. Layers and layers of editorial oversight.

And rather than being charged criminally under state and federal law for those felonies, Officer Douchebadge, though fired by SLCPD, is still free, and trying to get his old job back. No, really.

If ever someone needed to go away and eat his gun for the good of society, Officer Nursebeater is the poster child.

There's only one thing we have to thank him for: Officer Douchebadge's inspirational, brazen, and profligate violation of his oath, the law, the US Constitution, and all common sense and decency, and his total commitment to outright over-the-top jackbooted thuggery, which he'd obviously been doing his whole career, roused us enough to begin memeing. (5-8K of 'em, at last tally.)

You can blame him or thank him, as ye will.

Either way, he's still unmitigated human debris, and his entire family line should be erased from the genetic pool, on general principles. And anyone who killed him, deliberately or accidentally, should receive a Presidential Medal Of Freedom for public service.

At the very least, the Governor of Utah and the Mayor of Salt Lake City should both award that nurse a commendation for upholding the actual law far better than the douchebadged thug at SLCPD did that day.

There's already enough sheep pens in Utah that the state, and the nation, could be considered well rid of that additional giant piece of walking shit, and anything that happens to him between now and whenever he kicks his oxygen addiction is totally justified.

Newest Tac Gear: Bulletsoaker 2022

MOAR great ones at Miguel's GFZ.

Bring It

h/t Bennett's Phylactery 

90 Minutes

 

The chickensh*t douchebadges in Uvalde who stood around
"just following orders" deserve so many white feathers over this,
 they could make a whole chicken. What a waste of skin and oxygen
that Fate lets them live who stood by as little kids were slaughtered.

Color Me Shocked:

Chickenshit douchebadges in kevlar vests and with rifles on, stood around "forming a perimeter" while 18 y.o. mental defective slaughtered children unhindered in Uvalde elementary school, as kids' parents futilely urged cops to "do something" for an hour and a half.

The. SPECIAL. Hell.

Because if spectating while children are being gunned down, just to save your pension, isn't child molestation, strike the phrase from the lexicons. Uvalde badged chickenshits, consider yourselves served with the Official White Feather of Cowardice. Please, we besech you, do the right thing: go home and eat your guns, if you have a shred of dignity left.

Those gutless m*****f*****s, from chief to lowest beat cop, should be fired for cause, and en masse, and all policing duties turned over to the county sheriff and Texas Rangers, until they can find some non-chickenshits and train them to do the job correctly, from scratch.

All their names and likenesses should be memorialized on a plaque in perpetutity at Cowards' Park, erected on the school front lawn, publicly identifying every single one of them as the cowards they are, for all time, with a giant white chicken atop the marble marker.

They were more afraid of a tranny shooter than they were the endless lifetime of shame of being cowards when it mattered.

And they should be rewarded by the city and its citizens for that behavior for all time.

Teaching that lesson to generations of school kids would be worth gold.

Another Douchebadge Homicide

h/ts to Kenny and Miguel

Q: When does an open front door on one's own house justify the death penalty?
A: When you're black, it's 2:30AM, and you live (for the moment) in Foat Wuth.

Well played, Officer Friendly. Another murdered citizen to chalk up to giving stupid people  guns and badges.

Like DPD assassin Amber Guyger's "accidental" shooting, this is another open and shut case of second degree murder, and nothing less.

It's easily solved: simply notify all citizens in both municipalities that "shoot on sight" works the same both ways, and tell FWPD that any citizen who sees them on the streets may open fire anywhere and any time without warning or any legal penalty, and see how they like it when the law is enforced the same both ways.

Alternatively, take away FWPD's guns and body armor for six months, and let them re-learn how to function as cops instead of killers, starting with a month-long force-wide indoctrination into Peel's Principles.

All of which to start after they fire and prosecute the officer who did this for murder, and discipline everyone involved who knew it but didn't come forward or identify it as such, beginning with their termination.

Either there's one set of laws for everyone, or there's no law at all.

If Fort Worth chooses anarchy, I suspect citizens will fare much better than rogue cops will thereabouts, but it's their choice.

The closest thing to penance Fort Worth could do by way of apology, to mitigate the relations they're about to enjoy, would be to deliver this soon-to-be-ex-officer's head to the mayor on a platter. Literally.
Anything less isn't nearly enough.
But if he were any kind of a man, he'd go home and eat his gun himself, and save everyone else the trouble.

A badge and gun are a heavy responsibility, too heavy for anyone this recklessly stupid, and this was egregious foolishness, graduating to deliberate unlawful homicide, with no excuse or mitigating circumstance whatsoever.

And it starts with thinking your ass is special, and the rules and written law don't apply to you.
He didn't learn that yesterday; this is doubtless an institutional thing, and only draconian measures are ever going to burn it out of the woodwork once and for all.

But in slim mitigation of this murder, FWPD did exactly two things right here:
1) Required their officers to wear body cams.
2) Released the footage immediately.

Now, go on a roll, starting with firing the officer, vacating all criminal and civil immunity for cause, handing him over to the D.A. with a department recommendation for indictment for second-degree murder, and make his partner an accomplice.

Then this will stop being funny to TPTB and the idiots who do it, and become a goddam lot less frequent.

Justice!

h/t Kenny



Convicted murderer. Righteously.

We love it when a story we've been following finally pays off.

DALLAS - Amber Guyger found guilty of murder for the fatal shooting of her upstairs neighbor.

Her story was pure undiluted bullshit from the moment she uttered it.
We are right glad a jury had no trouble setting her lies aside (they came back with their guilty verdict on second-degree murder in just five hours), and finding that she murdered the man she had complained about for noise multiple times, including the morning before her last shift as a police officer.

We covered this multiple times when it happened last year, and the discrepancies between likely reality and her fairytale version of events began to resemble the chasm known as the Grand Canyon. Nice to see all the lies she told then finally paying off with this conviction.

It's also nice that with everyone watching, the prosecution didn't throw the case, despite the attempt by the Texas Ranger investigating team to whitewash this assassination under color of authority, by a deranged and entitled douchebadge.

We wish the needle was an option in this case, but since not, would be mightily satisfied if inmate Guyger gets beaten soundly every day from now until she hopefully dies in prison. And goes to hell.




Better luck with that fairytale in your next life, douchebadge.

UPDATE: Ten years in prison!
That gives the convict population 3652 days to do to her what she did to the guy upstairs.
Dulce et decorum est.

This Is My Not So Shocked Face

Former DPD Officer Killshot is now under indictment for manslaughter murder.
Couldn't happen to a nicer killer:

(DALLAS) Amber Guyger, the [former] Dallas police officer [later fired, and] charged in the shooting death of Botham Jean, was indicted Friday on a murder charge — an upgrade from the “manslaughter” charge at the time of her arrest.

The shooting occurred on September 6, 2018. Guyger claimed she mistook Jean, an accountant, for an intruder in her apartment but realized she had opened fire inside his unit in the same building. She was fired weeks later by the Dallas Police Department.

Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson told reporters Friday that the charges were upgraded from manslaughter because “at the moment of the shooting it was a knowing… offense.”

Guyger claimed that she did not realize she was at the wrong apartment until she called 911 and was asked for her location. According to USA Today, the family has questioned her version of events, alleging discrepancies:

An affidavit for a search warrant states that Guyger and Jean encountered each other at the door to his apartment, instead of having an exchange across the room.
After the shooting, Guyger’s blood was drawn to be tested for alcohol and drugs, according to Hall. Authorities have not released results.

 Guyger posted a $300,000 bond and will await her trial outside of prison.

Deadeye Douchebadge also neglected to mention that she had made multiple complaints for noise about the very upstairs neighbor she murdered, including one complaint the same morning of the day she killed him. Whoops.

So he was not unknown to her, and the idea that her 1-block drive from PD HQ to her apartment left her so groggy she missed 20 obvious visual cues, including the blazing neon lit door plaque and red carpet outside his apartment, make her farcical claims that this was a tragic mistake flatly recockulous.

Like we told you at the time: this was an execution, under color of authority.
Because she thought she could do that, and get away with it.

Nice of the Dallas D.A.'s Office to finally pull their heads out of their asses and admit the obvious.

Now she just needs a fine public trial, and a choice between confession and LWOP, or the needle for premeditated homicide.

The real tragedy in this case is that public hanging has gone out of fashion.

Officer Killshot Fired!

It generally takes a monumental f**k-up (molesting children on video, for example) to fire a serving police office once they're out of their rookie year (during which anything will suffice).

Nonetheless today, DPD fired killer copchick  and four-year veteran Amber Guyger, not for killing her neighbor in a dispute and blaming fatigue, but for something else that day, which they refuse to name, claiming it would taint the investigation to reveal.

(DALLAS) An internal investigation revealed Guyger “engaged in adverse conduct when she was arrested for manslaughter’’ three days after the Sept. 6 shooting of Jean, who lived in the fourth-floor apartment right above her, the statement said.

The posting did not specify the nature of the "adverse conduct,'' but Dallas police spokesman Sgt. Warren Mitchell later described it in a written response as “conduct which adversely affects the morale or efficiency of the Department or which has a tendency to adversely affect, lower, destroy public respect and confidence in the Department or officer.”

When an officer has been arrested for a crime, adverse conduct is often cited in the officer’s termination, Mitchell said.

Guyger, who was hired in November 2013, has been out on bond and remained on administrative leave while facing manslaughter charges. Her continued employment has been a sore point for Jean’s relatives and protesters, who have argued she should be fired and charged with murder.

IOW, they're still just fine with her whacking her neighbor in a fit of pique, but she after four years service, she did something so egregious they want her to be an ex-cop, but it's so secret that if they told us, they'd have to kill us.

Which, given Guyger's penchant and M.O. for settling personal problems, ought to give any citizen of Dallas some pause.

It almost sounds like they're blaming her, not for the murder, but for getting caught.

And now they get no credit for finally doing the right thing, because they didn't do it for the right reasons, and they've cleverly refused to state the reason, thus ensuring that in the post-trial riots, they'll still be hated by the entire rioting community, unless Guyger gets a well-deserved date with a needle.

Well-played, DPD. Best case, this only costs you tens of million$ of dollar$ at the inevitable civil trial.

DPD: Only Searching The Homes Of Victims

I see: get killed in your underwear, unarmed, in your own home, your place gets tossed, and the results leaked within minutes.

Actually kill that guy, move out a week later, with assistance from one of your colleagues unindicted co-conspirators.

That right there should get a lot of sympathy for DPD at the after-verdict riots.

I've seen this first-hand.
If you're in downtown Dallas, insurance premiums are about to tick upwards sharply. Get your policy coverage updated now.

Just saying.

And The Hole Just Keeps Getting Deeper

Well, despite her best efforts after being booked and released, killer DPD cop Amber Guyger seems to have missed scrubbing her Pinterest page, unlike all the other social media she scrubbed after murdering her neighbor earlier this month.



OK, true, but no points for you with the black community.



Got it: special rules for people with badges.

That one's hilarious, in a
you-need-to-be-fired-and-locked-up-for-psych-eval
kind of way, especially when you actually KILL people.

Killing is your business, and business is good, eh? This one
should be a barrel of laughs at the grand jury hearing.

So, it's always nice to know the long-standing mindset of a defendant on trial for manslaughter (and hopefully that morphs into murder, which it was), especially when the jury is deliberating, and judges are pondering sentencing and your level of remorse.

One other graphic for now, this one from AP, which published this look at the path Guyger took that night.

So just spitballing here, but if the average apartment unit in the complex were 50' wide, and she walked around 500' from the parking garage to the door, she walked past at least 10 doors per side of the hall, or twenty total, ALL displaying, in dazzlingly bright electric numbers, the obvious fact that she was on the wrong floor. I still haven't seen (but would love to) whether there were floor markings on the walls, intermediate fire doors, or the door from the parking structure to the hallway itself, though I suspect there were as well.

So once again, that's not "fatigue" and an "honest mistake", that's either catatonic zombie-shuffling, or deliberately going to the guy's apartment as all other evidence indicates she knew she was doing, and then shooting him dead.

So we've not only got murder beyond a reasonable doubt, and more mens rea from scrubbing her own social media accounts, we also have, in the one she missed, multiple instances of what a prosecutor will have no trouble painting as simple racism, and a homicidal streak a mile wide.

Amber Guyger's antecubital vein.
Intravenous catheter.
Valium, succinylcholine, and potassium chloride.
Some assembly required.

This works for cop killers and killer cops, with equal simplicity. Texas justice, don't let us down.

Welcome To You Bet Your Life

We called this one correctly Saturday morning.
We doubled down when the bogus arrest affidavit was released Tuesday morning.
We filleted calls that "maybe she was telling the truth" Wednesday morning.
With the last bit now, this makes this case a grand-slam slam-dunk.

30 y.o., 5'3", with a badge, a gun, and an attitude.

Absolutely zero surprise on this, and huge kudos to commenter Nemo for the DailyMail story link:

1) Officer Amber Guyger's bullshit story was that the vicitm's door was "ajar" at 10PM when she entered.

Oops. The UK DailyMail has a video that shows that all the doors in the complex are on automatic closers, and if let go they automatically close and lock.

Ignore most of the additional crap added by this version;
the first 55 seconds are all that matter.

So that would be perjury for Officer Guyger. And she's now a documented liar.
Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus is the legal guideline on such things.

2) The apartment numbers are lit up by blazing white lights, in letters 2" high, right next to every door in the complex.

Wrong door

Killshot's door.

And, exactly as described by witness, there was a big red doormat outside Not-Her-Door that should have been a major clue, had this been "just a terrible accident".

Officer Killshot's door

Dead victim Jean's door, with red doormat. Flowers are recent additions, obviously.

But wait! There's more!

The neighbor, who lives two doors down from cop Amber Guyger, 30, but asked not to be named, said he did not believe the petite blonde would have been able to force her way in.

Pointing to his own heavy metal door, the same as both Jean's and Guyger’s, he said: ‘These are fire doors. You can’t really leave it open.

‘The key situation too – you can’t get into any place, you can’t. It’s impossible. You can put it in but you can’t open it.

‘You can put it into somebody else’s key hole but you can’t open anything. This key isn’t programmed for my door – if I put it in, nothing happens apart from this red light.’

With no signs of forced entry, and the "it was ajar" now pure fantasy bullshit, the only way the door opened, was that, exactly as neighbors related, Killshot Guyger pounded on the door, and when Dead guy victim Jean opened it, she drew and shot him.

Because, she claims, she "thought he was a burglar".
 

And now for the closer:

DailyMail.com can also reveal that Guyger had made noise complaints about Jean, 26, to the building management in the days before his death.

Her neighbor, a Hispanic man in his mid-20s, said she had been cross about him making noise early in the mornings.

He said: ‘She filed a noise complaint earlier on in the day which said that he had been making noise before she leaves for her shift.’

The family lawyer Merritt confirmed his account in an interview with CNN, telling the channel: ‘The only connection we have been able to make is that she was his immediate downstairs neighbor.

‘And there were noise complaints from the immediate downstairs neighbors about whoever was upstairs, and that would have been Botham.

‘In fact, there were noise complaints that very day about upstairs activity in Botham’s apartment. Botham received a phone call about noise coming from his apartment from the downstairs neighbor.’

Bingo.
Motive. Means. Opportunity.
Not a terrible mistake.
Not some guy she had no connection to.
But rather, the guy upstairs pissing her off and ruining her beauty sleep.
Multiple (unresolved) complaints.
Settling an ongoing grudge, because big badge and big gun.

And it seems she "neglected to mention" that ongoing little detail of life, the universe, and everything during her after-incident Come-to-Jesus debriefing. Which shows again, consciousness of guilt, intent to deceive, and deliberate attempt to hide an obvious motive, and a hitherto unknown connection to the guy she murdered. Prosecutors love that shit. Even when it's a cop. Juries too.

In legalese, it's called mens rea: literally "guilty mind".

It means when you do things crooks do, like lie about what happened, you've just put your head into the noose of being a crook.

She was Officer Respect Mah Authoritay, he wouldn't keep it down to suit her changing shifts, so after this shift, she went to his door, beat on it until he opened it, brief words are exchanged, and she draws her gun and kills him.

Like she did.

And BTW, the apartments are right next door to DPD HQ. So her drive home was apparently about 60 seconds.

Murder, first degree: pre-meditated, with malice aforethought.

Stick a fork in her.

If Texas needs someone to put the IV in when she gets the needle, I'll pay for my own airfare, roundtrip.

This lying bitch is a cold-blooded killer.

And the DailyMail is HQ'ed in flippin' London, England, and they pulled this together in a day or two, but the Texas Rangers, right there in Texas, couldn't figure any of this out before they recommended a bullshit manslaughter charge???

Somebody at the Rangers needs firing, or Chuck Norris' boot roundhouse kicked up their ass.
Or, just for the novelty, discipline them for incompetence, and demote them.
Actually prosecuting them for accomplice after the fact would be nice, but they probably need to be dragged back to reality kicking and screaming, so I suppose small steps are indicated. Six months patrolling BFTexas back roads, on graveyard shift for six months, after a month home without pay, would be an excellent start.


BONUS QUESTIONS:
This CNN video from Tuesday

shows a brief clip of Guyger in uniform on her cell phone after the shooting. The one she didn't use to call for back-up when she supposedly found her door "ajar", with a possible burglar inside, at her apartment (50 yards from the Dallas PD police station she had just left, and from which she could have expected 5-10 cars for back-up in about 2 minutes, had she called 911, like she would have done if on duty.) I had assumed from pictures that the 4th floor corridor was fully enclosed, but obviously, it's open to the ground. Possibly not just at the point where she was filmed.

So my additional question is:
We're supposed to believe she couldn't tell the difference between being on the middle (3rd) floor, where she wasn't, and being on the uppermost (4th) floor, where she was, from her car to the door in question, when it sits another 10' higher above the ground??
Who, besides Stevie Wonder, can't tell the difference between the middle floor and the top floor in a 4-floor apartment building?

I'm betting anyone who went to the South Place apartments, and filmed two videos,
1) one of the route she would normally take, and
2) one of the route she took that night, from the point of driving in and parking on the wrong floor, and from there to the victim's door
it will show pretty conclusively that her claiming to have "made a mistake" would require her to be either catatonic, or blind. Which her subsequent marksmanship that night would tend to belie.

Or else, lying her ass off to cover a squabble with an upstairs neighbor that turned into a murder. Which she's already been caught lying about in multiple ways, from the moment it happened.

 

Sorry, No Sale.

Read the follow-up post.

People die? You lie? You fry.

"However, she states she found the door ajar, that she issued the shadowy figure she encountered commands to stop, and only shot him when he did not comply.

In other words, her statement ticks all the boxes for an unfortunate shoot that will likely result in a plea deal on manslaughter charges and the end of a career in law enforcement. Especially if her claim that she didn't turn on the lights and realize she was in the wrong apartment until she was already on the phone with 911 is borne out by the recording of the call.

The angry public is clamoring for murder charges, however, and if soon-to-be-former Officer Guyger fudged any part of her statement in order to make her case look better, it will bite her in the ass."

Sorry, Tam, but no. In fact, hell No.

Oh, and boo frickin' hoo for the "end of [her] career in law enforcement." It should have ended before that night, obviously, but either way, it's too late now to save her murdered victim, nor do his family, herself, the DPD, or the city of Dallas any good.
Stupidity kills. Everyone suffers.

Even if Officer Killshot was strictly and scrupulously truthful, this isn't manslaughter.
Because outside the door-that-wasn't-hers, there was a bright red doormat that also wasn't hers. (A material fact which both she and the investigating officer for the Texas Rangers cleverly neglected to mention. How...convenient.)

Even if you're Inspector Clousseau, this is known as a "clue".

And on the outside of that door, even if it was ajar at O-dark-thirty as she claims, even if she didn't pound on it as witnesses have claimed, even if the victim didn't come to the locked door and open it, whereupon she began a verbal altercation-cum-murder, as another witness has claimed,I'll wager handsomely, the apartment number is cleverly affixed outside of the door.

So while there may indeed be an assholian good-old-boys tradition about liquoring up, then deliberately getting into a car, turning the key, driving home, and "accidentally" plowing into a carload of innocent family, and calling it manslaughter, even in Texas, rather than murder, which it is, when you're so tired you're too stupid to look at the door of what is allegedly your apartment, without noticing whether or not it really is, and then you draw and fire and kill someone DRT, there is no good-old-boy custom of saying, "Well, sheeyit, folks, these things jes' happen, so let's call it accidental and drop it to manslaughter."

She purposely entered an apartment, and began a verbal altercation, after discovering what she claims to have believed was the door to her home ajar(!). She didn't call it in, she didn't wait for back-up, and she didn't even do the barest minimum of due diligence to ascertain her own actual location by looking at the door, or noticing the bright red doormat she didn't own at her feet, which is the entire reason this happened, whereupon she capped a black guy watching TV in his apartment.

This is not fatigue bordering on exhaustion. Officer Killshot is trying to have it both ways, and have us believe she was so comatose she violated procedure, common sense, and basic human behavior, right up until she was able to recall her four-year experience and training as a police officer, draw her service weapon, take aim, and 10-ring an unarmed innocent man for the crime of not being in her apartment, killing him with a shot to the chest.

My, how pretty self-servingly convenient that her instincts and training only kicked in for those two seconds, but not at any time beforehand that might have led her to, y'know, not be a murdering douchebadge and then testi-lie afterwards in the most ham-fisted CYA attempt in, oh, the last five minutes from Cops Caught Doing Stupid Things.
 
"Yessir, that's what happened, I was too fatigued to notice the wrong floor, too fatigued to notice the wrong doormat, too fatigued to notice the wrong apartment number on the door, too fatigued to follow any sort of common sense procedure when it appeared my apartment was or had been burglarized when I noticed the door ajar, too fatigued to call 9-1-1, too fatigued to wait for backup (which would have been about 30 seconds if dispatch had received a call of possible burglary-in-progress at a PD officer's home), too fatigued to follow procedure, too fatigued to turn on a light, but suddenly, like lightning from Zeus' own hand, my academy training and four years on the streets of the big city kicked in, and I was able to calmly and deliberately score a perfect 100% kill-shot on Sumdood in his living room, and then SUDDENLY, I realized "OMG, this is NOT my apartment!"

The only possible reply to a pure fairy tale of that magnitude is this:


"Pull the other one, Officer F**khead, it's got bells on."

Guys with a trunk full to the brim of kilos of heroin claiming "That's not mine; I don't know how it got in there." have more credibility here.

Five-year-olds standing in a living room full of debris and claiming "A cat in a hat with two things - Thing 1 and Thing 2 - came in the door and did all this!" have more credibility here.

So yes, Officer Killshot should have turned on the lights, or her flashlight.

But it's an irrelevant point. The issue is that her story is patently obvious bullshit twenty feet high, and she never should have gotten past the door in the first place, had she even two wits in her entire Diversity Bean-hire empty head.

So let's stop trying to cut her any slack on any part of her story that might have been within a country mile of credibility, or try and categorize calls for murder charges as "angry" as if this was mere emotion in play, rather than calm, deliberate, logical, defensible, and justifiable outrage.

Trying to cast this as mere anger is nothing but fakenews spin, and heaven knows, her PBA shyster will be doing quadruple axels from now until the verdict comes down as it is; they don't need any help from the blogosphere.

She murdered an innocent person, and we have a remedy for that. Texas is rather famous for applying it of late. I happily and forthrightly wish they'd behead her, for real, and film it, and force every swinging Richard now and forever at DPD to watch the film before they issue weapons and teach them how to shoot, because those with more privilege owe a higher level of responsibility. But I'll settle for either her death by lethal injection, or LWOP, since that's as far as Texas law allows us to go. (I dislike the latter on principle, since it penalizes the taxpayers - and the victim's family - more than the convict, unless you're also going to require the convict to be horsewhipped daily, then worked to death at hard labor at an advanced rate. In which case, we can talk.)

If she'd been tired and run the guy over in a dark alley on her way home, that would be manslaughter.

Going to the wrong floor, the wrong door, into the wrong apartment, and despite being a badged, sworn, trained, and multi-year experienced police officer doing not one single effing act of due diligence, and then going from  "Narf!" to "WTF?" to "Die, m*****f*****!" in ten seconds or so, makes this simple murder. Nothing less will do.

Otherwise, I claim permanent immunity for everyone who caps everyone else in Dallas henceforth under the "I was tired" defense. Especially if the victims are DPD officers. We'll see if we run out of cops, robbers, or innocent bystanders first, under those ROE.

Jesus Christ On A Pogo Stick, the "Twinkie Defense" had a better basis in reality than this wagonload of horseh...rose fertilizer, even though it elected DiFi all the way to the Senate. If she had any honor or truthfulness or remorse for the act in her at all, she'd have immediately pled guilty and be in prison already. Or just capped herself as an auto da fé at the scene. That, at least, I could respect.

IANAL, but when last I looked, lying after the fact is mens rea, and "consciousness of guilt".
When anyone tells this big a whopper this fast, it merely points out the fact that they're guilty as hell. QED

Some acts are so big, so bad, and so baldly obvious, you cannot mine enough duplicity on the planet to lie your way out of them. This is one of those acts. Anyone who thinks otherwise is sleep-deprived and over-tired, and should probably go lie down for a bit.

She murdered an unarmed, innocent man with reckless indifference to that reality.
There's no amount of lipstick that can suffice to dress that pig for the prom.
For the slaughterhouse, maybe.

Off with her head.


ADDENDUM
And another thing:

"she states she found the door ajar, that she issued the shadowy figure she encountered commands to stop, and only shot him when he did not comply."

 Let's grant all her recockulous assertions, and give her 100% of the imprimatur that she's being entirely truthful.

A "shadowy" figure?? Because he was black, or because he was in shadow, and as Tam noted, Officer Killshot was too stupid, lazy, incompetent, and/or scared shitless - but armed - to do anything intelligent, like turn on the goddam lights?

Or because her hands were already full of pistol, her vision had shrunk down to Dixie-cup tunnel vision, and the barest shreds of common sense had already run down her leg?
Or both?

And he didn't stop? Stop what?
Was he watching TV, and failed to stop?
Walking away? Backing away?
Walking obliquely?
Coming towards her?

And she shot him because "he did not comply"?!?
So, failure to obey the commands of someone who breaks into your house is a death penalty offense now?
It was shadowy...so could he possibly see her gun?
Know she was armed?
Know she was a police officer?
Did she even ascertain that he spoke and understood English?
Or was it "Respect my authoritay! No? BLAM!"

Bad things can happen when a uniformed officer in a marked cruiser with flashing red and blue lights who's pointing a weapon at you issues commands.
I get that.
But when you have instead, a groggy, dopey, but clearly amped up white chick break into your apartment and start ordering you around in a darkened room, it gets one helluva lot hazier.

And absent some articulable fear of threat of great bodily injury, she never had probable cause to use deadly force.
She didn't say "he tried to kill me" "he had an object in his hand"  nor "he had a weapon" or "grabbed ...something" or any twenty other ways she could have phrased it to get more traction.

"Shot him when he did not comply" says she executed him because he "refused to respect my authoritay".

She hasn't got grounds on probable cause, or castle doctrine, or stand your ground.
Nine chances out of ten, even had she been answering a call, in uniform, in a lit room, this would still  be a bad shoot, and criminal charges pending for her.

Or, she flat-out lost her shit, lost her mind, and dumped a guy who ignored her because she was a cop, and was always right, and it's all she could think of to do.

Wait, let me think back on 90% of the women I've dated, worked with, been married to, or interacted with over thirty or forty years, and see which solution set sounds most plausible, considering all other factors...

Now, you tell me which comports more likely with every cop you've ever known (at work, not over beers at a BBQ).
And with every female you've ever known.
When they're convinced they're right.

 

The prosecution rests, your Honor.

We ask for a short recess before defense proceeds, while the bailiff locates a stout rope.

 

If you're here from David Codrea or other sites, be sure to read the previous posts and follow-up post.

This isn't manslaughter, or even recklessly induced second degree murder.

It was an execution.

She had a motive.

Murder one. Book her, Dan-o.