How can you walk in to somebody else's apartment?
So, you're coming home from a hard day protecting and serving and you take out your keys to open your apartment door, stick the key in the door knob and...
1. Your key doesn't work.
a. You bang on the door and Mr. Jean answers and you shoot him because you think he is a burglar?
b. You bang on the door, Mr. Jean answers, you ask him what he's doing in your apartment, he says this is my apartment you say yeah right and you shoot him?
i. Why would you immediately disbelieve him with such extreme prejudice. Why wouldn't you do a reality check on yourself? "Oh right, sorry, wrong crib."
A. That is what you told the officers four minutes later when they responded to your call of the shooting. How much sooner than four minutes did you have that epiphany?
B. Did you see any of the interior of the apartment before killing him?
(1) Only after I killed him: "Now I see that print of Saint Lucia on the wall! My bad."
(2) Before I killed him. "Everything was different. I thought he had broken in, thought the place was nice and decided to move his stuff in."
(3) Before you killed him. "You're not going to believe this but it was decorated identically to mine. Exactly the same furniture. Same picture of Saint Lucia on the wall."
2. The door is already open.
a. You immediately take out your service revolver, enter, see Mr. Jean and shoot and kill him?
b. Blah, blah, blah and 1. b.?
3. The door is locked but you have a master key.
a. Shoot first, ask questions never?
b. Ask questions first and 1. b.
Based on what little little little we have now, that is the universe of entry scenarios that I can think of and they range from the plausible (#2) to the preposterous. More importantly, in none of those three scenarios are there non-criminal answers (that I can think of) to the natural questions one would have once the policewoman gained entry. I played those questions out and the universe of answers ranged from the inculpatory to the ludicrously inculpatory. Dallas P.D. couldn't come up with non-ludicrous, non-criminal answers either which is why they have charged the officer with manslaughter. Based on what we know now that is indisputably the proper charge.
D.P.D. is also testing the officer's blood for drugs and alcohol. That is not s.o.p. She must have presented to the responding officers as fuck-ed up-ed in some way. If she was not high on something and was in full possession of her faculties, that's bad for her. If she was fucked up on something that would mean she was fucked up on duty which is bad for her. I don't see anything but bad here except the swift, correct response by Dallas P.D.
So, you're coming home from a hard day protecting and serving and you take out your keys to open your apartment door, stick the key in the door knob and...
1. Your key doesn't work.
a. You bang on the door and Mr. Jean answers and you shoot him because you think he is a burglar?
b. You bang on the door, Mr. Jean answers, you ask him what he's doing in your apartment, he says this is my apartment you say yeah right and you shoot him?
i. Why would you immediately disbelieve him with such extreme prejudice. Why wouldn't you do a reality check on yourself? "Oh right, sorry, wrong crib."
A. That is what you told the officers four minutes later when they responded to your call of the shooting. How much sooner than four minutes did you have that epiphany?
B. Did you see any of the interior of the apartment before killing him?
(1) Only after I killed him: "Now I see that print of Saint Lucia on the wall! My bad."
(2) Before I killed him. "Everything was different. I thought he had broken in, thought the place was nice and decided to move his stuff in."
(3) Before you killed him. "You're not going to believe this but it was decorated identically to mine. Exactly the same furniture. Same picture of Saint Lucia on the wall."
2. The door is already open.
a. You immediately take out your service revolver, enter, see Mr. Jean and shoot and kill him?
b. Blah, blah, blah and 1. b.?
3. The door is locked but you have a master key.
a. Shoot first, ask questions never?
b. Ask questions first and 1. b.
Based on what little little little we have now, that is the universe of entry scenarios that I can think of and they range from the plausible (#2) to the preposterous. More importantly, in none of those three scenarios are there non-criminal answers (that I can think of) to the natural questions one would have once the policewoman gained entry. I played those questions out and the universe of answers ranged from the inculpatory to the ludicrously inculpatory. Dallas P.D. couldn't come up with non-ludicrous, non-criminal answers either which is why they have charged the officer with manslaughter. Based on what we know now that is indisputably the proper charge.
D.P.D. is also testing the officer's blood for drugs and alcohol. That is not s.o.p. She must have presented to the responding officers as fuck-ed up-ed in some way. If she was not high on something and was in full possession of her faculties, that's bad for her. If she was fucked up on something that would mean she was fucked up on duty which is bad for her. I don't see anything but bad here except the swift, correct response by Dallas P.D.
