I'm gonna be blunt. I'm really trying not to get my hopes up in the tragic tale of Botham Jean. If you're unaware who he is, he is the young man who was in his home and a Dallas Police officer who apparently was confused tried to enter his apartment and for committing the egregious crime of walking through his apartment to the door while someone who did not reside there was trying to enter he is no longer of this earth. A case that one would think is as open and shut as it gets is following the same tried and true script every time something like this happens.
First the police officer Amber Guyger, is given all the benefit of the doubt. "She had just worked a long shift." "She went to the wrong apartment." And of course the classic line of reasoning, "she feared for her life." You know who else probably feared for their life? Botham Jean. But his benefit of the doubt was erased by a confused constable. Yet her word is being considered an accurate representation of what happened that night of the 6th despite her ever changing account. In the arrest warrant it states when she entered the door was slightly open so when she inserted the key, the door opened right up and that is when she came across Jean and he ignored the verbal commands of a whole ass person who does not pay rent there I might add. In the search warrant (of the murdered victim's apartment) it states "An off-duty Dallas Police Officer, who was wearing a full Dallas Police uniform, was attempting to enter apartment number 1478, with a set of keys. An unknown male, inside the apartment, confronted the officer at the door. A neighbor stated he heard an exchange of words, immediately followed by at least two gunshots.” So which is it? Did he open the door or was the door already open? Is it oochie wally wally or is it one mic?
Secondly, you read that correctly in the previous paragraph. A search warrant was executed in the home of Jean. And it was even released that marijuana had been found. Well open and shut case Johnson! He was high and attacked this delicate flower! The Dallas PD, on the day the man was buried, is releasing what was found in his apartment as if he was the criminal. What was in Amber Guyger's apartment you may ask? Well we won't know because her apartment wasn't searched and she allegedly has moved out of said apartment already so we'll never know what she had in her apartment. She was even given three days before being charged with a crime possibly to get her story straight and this was the best they came up with.
So yes, I'm not getting my hopes up that there will be justice for Botham Jean because I can't deal with the anger that's gonna come when she skates with probation and no admission of guilt. And my fear is that Botham Jean joins Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Rekia Boyd, John Crawford, Akai Gurley, Timothy Stansbury and others who's only crime was being present on this mortal coil.
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