What I offered here is a possible defense that her attorney might use. What else can you say? Maybe that she was insane. She is not only on the wrong floor for her apartment but Jean had a red door mat in front of his door. Did she also have a red doormat? How did it happen that once she enters the darkened room she did not turn on the lights? That is the first thing anyone does and the light switch is always close to the door. Yet, she was able to see a black man in the dark enough to know he was not following her "verbal commands." Something is very wrong here.

@DenoPenno What is "very wrong here" is the speculation that many seem willing to make BEFORE a proper investigation is conducted.

@dahermit OK. I will leave it to you to come up with proper justification. My remarks and reporting of the incident point out that there is none and cannot be none. NOTHING will justify what this cop has done, and nothing will get rid of the racial overtones of any investigation so far. Tell me something that may and you put yourself out on the limb that you seem to think I am on right now. Truth be known, I am not out on a limb. Investigation and arrest are coming too late and the story is still ever changing trying to find this mythical "justification" when there is none at all. Reverse the color of these people immediately and you would see that it is over before it began. Even so, Guyger is trapped. The irony is that she will likely get 10 years and not even serve all of that.

@DenoPenno "I will leave it to you to come up with proper justification" I will wait for a proper investigation and not do any ridiculous and unsupported speculation. Because you cannot come up with any "justification" is more a limit upon your imagination (and jump to conclusion) than it is that there is none under the law.

@dahermit Have it your way. Believe what you like. I'm done. I quit, and I give up. I didn't pull this out of my ass. I read it in various reported news pieces that apparently are following the investigation.

@DenoPenno Sigh...the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

@dahermit Dunning-Kruger Effect? You must mean Donald Trump.

@DenoPenno On that we can agree.

So far there is no evidence that both parties even knew each other. His apartment is on the 4th floor and her apartment would be at the same location on the 3rd floor. For some reason she parked on the 4th floor parking level and then entered the building.

@DenoPenno no reason drugs were involved . She may have been pissed with him having elephant feet

@DenoPenno "No evidence that they knew one another..." How the hell do you know? Until an investigation is done, you are just urinating in the wind. STFU and let the investigation (and those smart enough to do it), do their jobs.

@dahermit Why is this bothering you so much? My words come from the media who is reporting and printing what the investigation is coming up with so far. I hope they are smart enough to do their jobs. They could be getting angry as hell and just pulling it all out of their asses like pissed off people writing on this page.

@DenoPenno Because you are repeating what the media is saying...they often get things wrong.
They are saying what the police are releasing...police do not release the what they have found until the investigation is over and then sometimes it is not released until a Grand Jury is convened. What you can be assured of, is YOU ARE NOT PRIVY TO ALL THE FACTS AT THIS TIME. If you were smarter, you would have figured that out by now.

What does them knowing each other have to do with whether or not it's racism? A racist doesn't have to know you to behave as a racist.

@redbai The reason I never mentioned race of either party in this tragedy is that the way it unfolded did not make me think it involved racism. It unfolded as extreme confusion on her part. Who knows? Later on we may learn that he made lots of noise that she heard from her apartment and she maybe hated black people. IDK. This is so damned crazy on her part and that's why I thought they might come up with a drug excuse for her actions.

@DenoPenno So you don't belive how it was initially handled was biased? Do you honestly believe if a black policeman had entered a white, Christian womn's apartment and shot her then claimed to be confused they would have put him on paid leave and waited for a different policing agency to attempt to press charges?

That's not the America I live in.

@redbai The handling of it was terrible. Race plays a part in this because the cop is white and some think it gives a "double white priviledge." Many will not admit to the first one. The move today is to dumb us all down in these matters to make it more acceptable. Do I see bias and racism? YES. Rather than approach it in that manner my way of attacking this tragedy is to show it's idiocy.