not making excuses
but i’m sure, after a 12 hour shift, her fatigued mental state played a role in eroding her situational awareness and decision making.
i agree she should be jailed in the very least for manslaughter perhaps.
unfortunate situation
i know i have certainly got off on the wrong floor and walked “on autopilot” to a hotel room or apartment that i thought was my own. more than once in my lifetime.
it’s possible this is exactly what happened to her. she fumbled with her keys assuming she inserted the wrong key in the door, suddenly it opens and there’s a strange man in your home... i’m almost always armed, but i would not have drawn a firearm on the guy straight away.
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i love how the media plays the race card here. and in many similar reports. the race of the officer and the victim are irrelevant.
blacks shoot blacks more than anyone else shoots them... yet you never hear “black man shoots unarmed black man.” instead you hear “one shot in tragic drive by shooting in low income neighborhood”
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