How in the hell do you not know it’s not your own apt unless you’re half in the wrapper or high?
Get off at the wrong floor?
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How in the hell do you not know it’s not your own apt unless you’re half in the wrapper or high?
Get off at the wrong floor?
Good. That should be MANDATORY after any and all officer involved shootings. That and body cameras should also be mandatory. It's for the protection of us as well as the officer.
Body cam when she was off duty? You gotta know if I was a cop that thing would get turned off the moment I clocked out.
I'm sure they see it as an invasion of their privacy. Do we have any LEO on the board who wear one, and can comment on their effectiveness and their effects on how you do your job?
The Dallas PD moved quick on this. It must be a slam dunk case.
Betting her excuse will be "It was a long shift and I was insanely tired your honor. Didn't even know it wasn't my apartment."
Body cam when she was off duty? You gotta know if I was a cop that thing would get turned off the moment I clocked out.
I'm sure they see it as an invasion of their privacy. Do we have any LEO on the board who wear one, and can comment on their effectiveness and their effects on how you do your job?
How in the hell do you not know it’s not your own apt unless you’re half in the wrapper or high?
Or, that's their play. Botch the investigation so she gets off on procedural stuff.
The state where I grew up has a long history of capital punishment. If I ever entered someone's home by mistake and killed them, all I could expect would be about an 18 year long stay on death row at the Holman Correctional Center (Alabama's super max). My final stop would be Holman's execution chamber and a 2,000 volt surge from "Yellow Mama" (Alabama's notorious yellow-painted electric chair). I guess this is another case where a badge-carrier gets away with cold blooded .murder.Wow. If this was any of us we’d have been arrested immediately. Not placed on administrative leave pending an investigation. Curious as to how this could possibly remotely be job connected for the leave/investigation? How in the world is she not in jail?
Have you ever seen some of those Dallas apartment complexes? Rows and blocks of identical buildings.How in the hell do you not know it’s not your own apt unless you’re half in the wrapper or high?
Even if she was high or drunk or both, how'd she get in? Either the guy leaves his apt unlocked or he opened it for her from the inside. If she keeps her door locked when shes not home, she would of tried her key which wouldnt of turned his lock. They would both have to of been in the habit of leaving their doors unlocked for her to just walk in. Unless she tried her key, it didnt work, she knocked (assuming someone else lives there with her), he opened the door and she panicked and shot him. Something doesnt sound right.
Ive worked in property maintenance for a while and I have gone to the wrong apt a couple of times (while sober, lol), it happens. A lot of buildings are more or less identical as far as the finishes on the inside so youre kind of on autopilot on the way there. There have also been a couple of instances over the years where one tenants key fit anothers lock. Unlikely but I have seen it happen.
Only other scenario I can come up with is he went all "WHATTHAFUKUDOININMUHAPARTMENT!!1!" which has happened more than once but I work a lot in low income places where this reaction is more likely to happen. Im assuming cops dont typically live in shithole ghetto apts. Anyway, he gets combative either verbally or physically or both, she panics and pops him.
None of these explain how she got in unless they were both leaving their doors open. If she locks her door and he doesnt, her key wouldnt of worked. If she tried the knob anyway and it opened it would of put her on guard ("WTF is my door unlocked?!") and she shouldve realized it wasnt her place i would think.
Weird.
..............and something else is pretty clear from this. She didn't even take a half a second to assess the situation. Wrong apartment so the decor wouldn't match, her keys wouldn't have worked in the lock, wrong number on the door, wrong number on the floor, and probably a half dozen other queues.. I'm convinced some kind of controlled substance was involved. Had to be. No one is that dense when sober. Even the mentally handicapped gentleman who bags my groceries knows when he's in the wrong isle. Think of all the queues she had to ignore...
Ive worked in property maintenance for a while and I have gone to the wrong apt a couple of times (while sober, lol), it happens. A lot of buildings are more or less identical as far as the finishes on the inside so youre kind of on autopilot on the way there.
Ive done it more than once over the years. Opened the door once and made eye contact with a dude sitting on the couch watching tv. Luckily I had a repore with him so I kinda said "whoops wrong apt" and he laughed and said yep and that was it. A couple other times no one was home (or at least not in sight of the door) and I just backed out and left. Coworkers have had more confrontational experiences with idiots.Here's the way Vulcan-level situational awareness prevents such problems at work:
In my defense, the order of the restroom doors was different at different stairwell cores, and I'd gone to a different cross-corridor than usual, probably to hit the vending machines afterwards...
- Dope-de-dope-de-dope, gotta go wet the bush...
- A tampon dispenser in the Men's Room? This "Valuing Differences" stuff is really getting out of hand.
- Where are the urinals - they were here just yesterd...
- OMG it's the Women's Room!!!!
Summer of '81.
The Bride was lodged at the Marlboro Holiday Out for her apartment hunting trip.
Mid-evening, there's a lot of scratching and rattling at the door lock.
Looks through the peephole as some drunken guy starts pounding on the door.
Calls the desk, "someone is trying to break into my room!".
"Oh, that must be Mr. Jones - he just walked by. We'll go point him at his room".
Yeesh.
If he left his door knob unlocked, her key of the same brand would go into the lock and appear to "open" the lock if she used the key to turn the knob. Does not apply to a dead bolt or explain her not realizing she was in the wrong apt. Maybe the guy heard the key and came at her, but I suspect something else is going on for sure.Or it was locked, and she was trying to get in, he heard someone messing with the door and opened it.
Or she’s lying about going to the wrong apartment and something else is going on.
Article says a blood sample was taken to eval her for intoxication.
What a shame. Young man immigrated from the Caribbean, graduated college, and was working at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Two careers and one life ended, all of it preventable.
Is it possible that she knew exactly what she was doing??
Seems like an extreme way to deal with a noisy upstairs neighbor. Not totally impossible though.
Seems like an extreme way to deal with a noisy upstairs neighbor. Not totally impossible though.
Keys - she probably freaked out when saw the door was unlocked? She didnt even try the keys... opened with unholstered gun ready to go...............and something else is pretty clear from this. She didn't even take a half a second to assess the situation. Wrong apartment so the decor wouldn't match, her keys wouldn't have worked in the lock, wrong number on the door, wrong number on the floor, and probably a half dozen other queues.. I'm convinced some kind of controlled substance was involved. Had to be. No one is that dense when sober. Even the mentally handicapped gentleman who bags my groceries knows when he's in the wrong isle. Think of all the queues she had to ignore...
Keys - she probably freaked out when saw the door was unlocked? She didnt even try the keys... opened with upholstered gun ready to go.
Numbers on doors - many buildings have the same numbers on every floor. If you are on the wrong floor you might get the wrong apartment.
I had a beach apartment that was this way.
Floor number - if you are distracted it is easy to get off on the wrong floor. We have all done at least once.
Not defending her. She was probably wasted and should go to jail.