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    Not Enough Day DrinkingStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    9/12/18 1:03pm

    Hang on, are you telling me a police officer might be lying to cover up a crime they committed and the police department is going along with the perpetrators version of events even with direct contradictory evidence from impartial sources?

    Oh wait, it’s a day that ends in y in America. Nevermind, carry on.

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      skefflesNot Enough Day Drinking
      9/12/18 1:07pm

      And the DA too.

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      sTalkinggoat, first and last of his nameNot Enough Day Drinking
      9/12/18 1:30pm

      I can’t figure out the PDs game here. If that apartment has remote reprogrammable electronic locks then there’ll be a log of when the door was opened and closed. That apartment has to have hallway surveillance and while Forensic Investigators might lie about their findings, the forensics itself doesn’t lie. There’s going to be blood wherever she shot him. If the neighbors’ story is accurate (and I’ll believe two randos over the PD protecting their own any day) she shot him near the doorway which doesn’t jive with her story. The sheer amount of evidence they’ll have to make disappear to cover this up would require a grand conspiracy. 

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    Vanguard KnightStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    9/12/18 1:03pm

    This is why the rule allowing officers to decompress (ie come up with a cover story that fits the facts) is bullshit.

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      skefflesVanguard Knight
      9/12/18 1:07pm

      Nobody else gets that luxury when caught committing a crime, cops shouldn’t either.

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      Mr.DuckSauceskeffles
      9/12/18 1:35pm

      That’s the problem, cops are interviewing their own people, they need a third party like internal affairs to do these types of investigations and anything they can take from the police station into evidence because how the fuck is the criminal and the criminal organization doing their own interviews.

      That is some messed up garbage.

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    FreeRonStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    9/12/18 1:12pm

    Just to show what Merritt is referring to here when he says that Botham’s door (and all of the apartment doors) close automatically and couldn’t have been ‘ajar’. Also, it’s not pictured here, but each apartment in this building has the apt # shown clearly in bright white lights just to the left of the door, you know...so one can see what the apartment # is at all times of day or night and not be confused about where they are.

    SN: I’ve had my place broken into after a 12+ hour shift at work. The front door was ajar and I froze for a good 10-15 seconds with my keys in my hand as I thought about what to do. The 1st thing I did was call the cops because I realized I was the victim of a burglary. If she truly thought this was her apartment, she calls 911 before doing absolutely anything else. 911 call logs should be subpoenaed if they aren’t already.

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      IamStillColdFreeRon
      9/12/18 1:31pm

      I thought that calling the cops was always a bad idea.

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      FreeRonIamStillCold
      9/12/18 1:44pm

      It is...And it was.  I didn’t get a responding officer at my place to file a report on the whole ordeal til almost an hour after I called.  The police department in my area back then was less than 5 min away.  They treated me like I was bothering them for having my place broken into during their work hours, made side jokes to each other as they took inventory of all the valuables taken - at one point, one said to the other: “Damn, they even took dude’s pillowcase lolz” - and left after about 5-10 minutes of ‘police work’.  

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    The Intersectional Feminist part dosStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    9/12/18 1:06pm

    The woman also told Merritt that after the gunshots she heard a man’s voice say “Oh my god. Why did you do that?”

    Heartbreaking.

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      VinThe Intersectional Feminist part dos
      9/12/18 1:17pm

      Yeah...that’s enough internet/life for today. Time to start drinking.

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      ZabellaVin
      9/12/18 4:36pm

      Yeah...that’s enough internet/life for today. Time to start drinking.

      Atta Vin.

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    imperatorvultStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    9/12/18 2:09pm

    This whole case has sus written all over it.

    My guess is that the cop was intoxicated somehow.  Also I think if you look into her history it’s likely she has a history of being trigger-happy.

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      burnthismuthadown needs a burner key hand tattooimperatorvult
      9/12/18 3:45pm

      She looks like the type to be trashed while in uniform.  That’s what the cooling off period was for.  For her to sober up.

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      AuntBeetsyreduximperatorvult
      9/12/18 3:53pm

      She absolutely has a history - and she’s only 26!

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    Quantum Jimmies of Pangaean Are Both Russled And Not RussledStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    9/12/18 1:17pm

    Delays by the PD, as blamed on a f’king union-driven contract; purposeful gas lighting of a singularly spotless and ideal victim and his family by releasing his name to the public before even ID’ing the shooter; three different stories by the shooter.

    It’s literally a joke that anybody would trust this PD with any investigation of a crime committed by its own officers. Hell, it should be illegal to allow the investigation of felonies by cop suspects by their own departments.

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      sTalkinggoat, first and last of his nameQuantum Jimmies of Pangaean Are Both Russled And Not Russled
      9/12/18 1:35pm

      Supposedly the Texas Rangers are investigating. But I’ve also read reports that the Rangers are who recommended a Manslaughter charge when the judge (A fucking judge!) said it should be murder and they also arranged for her to turn herself in at a rural precinct where she could post bail immediately and spend 0 time in lockup.

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      Heart-of-BoudicasTalkinggoat, first and last of his name
      9/12/18 2:03pm

      My guess is the police & persecutors are looking to pull what Anita Alvarez did for Rekia Boyd’s murderer: Undercharge the killer cop (in this case, with manslaughter), resulting in an acquittal when the facts of the case don’t support the lesser-charge. Then double-jeopardy kicks in preventing re-charging for the actual, more serious crime.

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    E=MC HammeredStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    9/12/18 1:51pm

    Gotta love the excuse that she “gave verbal commands.” Let’s assume for the sake of argument that she’s telling the truth about that and actually did issue some kind of verbal command before shooting him. She’s a fucking off-duty cop intruding in someone’s home. He’s under no obligation to comply with her commands.

    She should be charged with murder, but the manslaughter charges are better than nothing I guess. Let’s hope there’s actually a conviction now.

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      Blind ProphetE=MC Hammered
      9/12/18 2:13pm

      Gotta love the excuse that she “gave verbal commands.”

      Whats great about that is how vague that phrase is.

      “Get me a coffee” is a verbal command.

      “Give me a backrub” is a verbal command.

      “Die motherfucker” is a verbal command.

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      NotAnLMDBlind Prophet
      9/12/18 4:01pm

      And it’s not like there’s a nonzero number of deaf people in the US that would be completely unable to comply with “verbal commands” and have been brutalized by the police as a result. It’s not the case here (especially with the truth about the door), but the point is she chose to use the method that required the least physically of her and on top of that, her situational awareness is total shit. Why do people think that shooting someone over personal property is acceptable? Don’t most burglars try to avoid the more serious crime of attempted murder and what happened to her duty to retreat? If they “find” a gun that he “threatened” her with, I swear I’m gonna flip a table.

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    AyawisgiStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    9/12/18 1:16pm

    She is a lying-ass murderer probably mad because he allegedly made noise above her, so this is her covering for killing an annoyance to her. She needs to be locked up on a proper murder charge. 

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      BladecutterAyawisgi
      9/12/18 1:44pm

      According to the story, Botham has a female roommate.
      I would bet $20 that the noise complaint was them having sex, and Officer Trigger Happy didn’t want to hear it that night.

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      dannybrownstoothBladecutter
      9/12/18 3:25pm

      The story is worded confusingly, but what it actually says is that the two witnesses who heard the cop yelling were female roommates of each other, not Botham Jean.

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    skefflesStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    9/12/18 1:04pm

    The only reason I am not saying that this sounds more and more like a full on Murder One felony killing is that it always sounded like that, this is just more confirmation. Fucking cops, man.

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    The Ghost of James Madison's Rage BonerStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    9/12/18 12:59pm

    Her story, on its face, convicts her at the very least of manslaughter. If it was too dark for her to recognize that she was in the wrong apartment, it was too dark for her to be firing blindly into it. Doing so was reckless, resulted in a man’s death, and that is the textbook definition of manslaughter.

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      strawmanarmyThe Ghost of James Madison's Rage Boner
      9/12/18 3:06pm

      It’s actually the textbook definition of second degree murder. There is indifference, an act intended to commit harm, and no apparent mitigating circumstance to justify a lesser charge of manslaughter.

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      The Ghost of James Madison's Rage Bonerstrawmanarmy
      9/12/18 3:18pm

      Homicide law in Texas is weird, so I should really have said “Texas” not “textbook.” Manslaughter in Texas requires recklessness.

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