Reply To: Dallas police officer Amber Guyger fired after fatally shooting neighbor Botham

[olecapt]

Dragon wrote:

Desert_Fox wrote:

basilfawlty wrote:

Why only Manslaughter

A lack of premeditation.

If Botham had accidently entered the wrong apartment, had given Guyger verbal commands and then shot her dead, do you think he’d be charged with manslaughter?

I would think he would have ended up with manslaughter.  But he is not a cop.  And you get into this “failed to comply I feared for my life” when it is an officer.

I would however expect that if  Jean had been armed and killed the officer he would have walked. And I doubt he would have gone to trial.  Might have been initially arrested but they would never have tried him.