Assuming the facts turn out as currently reported, this was a woman in (what she thought) was her apartment with an unknown stranger at night. The fact she was a police officer is largely irrelevant. She was not acting in the capacity of a police officer.
The reality is if she had been inside her own apartment this would be a non-story. The reaction, if we ever heard about it at all, would be "looks like this dude picked the wrong woman to prey upon". The #metoo crowd would probably hold her up for some sort of empowered female of the week award.
The unique and tragic thing is that she was not in her own apartment. She made a mistake that destroyed her life and his.
The normal human reaction is to wonder how she could have made that mistake. When I talk about this with normal people at work or in public that's what they talk about.
But unfortunately there is a disgusting element who must shoehorn a tragic incident into their "white cops love to shoot black people" narrative. They've never met this woman, but they can be sure she's a racist without any evident to suggest it because it helps their narrative.
Assuming that the facts are as reported: she was not in any apartment at all. She was trying to open to her own apartment but she made an honest mistake. Fair enough: could happen to anyone.
The actual resident of the apartment hears someone struggling to open a door and opens the door to offer assistance.
The woman who was in the wrong place immediately assumed that she was under attack and fired her weapon, killing the lawful resident who opened his door to help a stranger.
That she was a police officer matters. Most other people would not be armed, for one thing. Additionally, much has been made of the fact that she was just coming off a full shift. I assume most of us work full shifts routinely or have done so. I assume most of us have had terrible days at work and are ending our day over tired and in need of some dinner and a bit of relaxation. I doubt that any of us are primed or armed to shoot any perceived threat on sight.
Why are police officers trained to shoot at any perceived threat? There are other options. We’ve all read far too many stories of police offers shooting unarmed victims, including unarmed children, within seconds of encountering them. Black people of all ages, from children to elderly, male, female, are killed by police on a daily basis for simply existing. Playing in a park or opening the door to your own apartment is somehow sufficiently threatening to warrant nearly instantaneous death at the hands of police officers who are sworn to serve and protect others—not themselves.
There are explanations for this shooting but these are not justifications.
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I am not sure where you are getting your facts.
Botham Jean's door was unlocked, lights were off when Officer Amber Guyger mistook his apartment for hers, official says
The Dallas police officer who killed 26-year-old Botham Jean in his own apartment got inside because the door wasn’t locked, a law enforcement official said Sunday.
Officer Amber Guyger had just ended a 15-hour shift when she parked on the wrong level of the South Side Flats garage— the fourth floor instead of the third, where she lived, according to the official who has direct knowledge of the case but is not authorized to discuss it publicly.
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Guyger, who was still in uniform, put her key in the door, which was unlocked, and the door opened, the official said. The lights were out. She saw a figure in the darkness and thought her apartment was being burglarized, the official said. Guyger pulled her gun and fired twice.
When she turned on the lights, she realized she was in the wrong apartment. Jean, who worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers, was shot once in the chest.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dal...-amber-guyger-mistook-apartment-official-says