When she's being criminally investigated? Doesn't that amount to destruction of evidence?

“The most remarkable part of the affidavit is where it states what the officer purportedly believed.” Le Brocq said via email, “Specially, that there was a burglar in her apartment. This is a factual question and is something for a jury to decide. If the statements are true as written in the affidavit, I see no crime having been committed.”

And that’s extraordinary. Probable cause affidavits typically paint criminal defendants in the worst light. Per force, they’re kind of supposed to do exactly that. Le Brocq explained:

Probable cause affidavits are the instruments necessary to arrest someone for a crime. Typically, they are conclusory statements (many times unsupported) written against the accused, to secure a warrant for arrest. The affidavit in this case is written such that, one would question why a warrant was even issued. The author of the affidavit writes a story indicating it was a complete mistake and even concludes what the officer subjectively thought, albeit it is stated as “facts” of the case.

Fort Worth area criminal defense attorney Phillip Hall also took issue with the general contours of how the Guyger affidavit was drafted. In emailed comments to Law&Crime he said:

The Texas Ranger’s affidavit appeared to justify the defendant’s actions and empathize with her confusion. The affidavit states the defendant’s position as a police officer, references the confusion that could arise with the apartment’s floor-plan, and rationalizes why the defendant believed she was on the right floor when entering the apartment. These “facts” aligned closer with justification for the defendant than an unbiased recitation of the facts.

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Hall continued, “As a criminal defense attorney, I like the affidavit because of its understanding nature of the defendant’s actions. However, my issues with this affidavit exist because these kindly written words do not occur on the “normal” defendant’s affidavit. It appears that this affidavit was carefully constructed to protect this police officer. Had this been one of my (or any other defense attorney’s) indigent, minority clients, I guarantee the wording of the affidavit would be different.”

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/completely-biased-dallas-area-defense-attorneys-slam-amber-guyger-arrest-document/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

I have been afraid that people will get caught up in the name, and the man, instead of the message. Over and over again, until I'm blue in the face, I hope to reiterate that Colin Kaepernick sat during the anthem to call attention to injustices toward and violence toward African-Americans and other minorities. It was a very brave thing to do. He probably didn't know it would cost him his career, but that's pride in your convictions.

Most of us would not have the guts to carry through with his decision, given the hatred and animosity it won him. I will always admire him, but will also always reiterate why he sat/knelt. He wanted to call attention to a serious problem. the violence against African-Americans may not be as bad as the 1876-1960 time of lynching, but it's bad. Very bad. and it's being sanctioned by an American population that resented Affirmative Action and wanted black people to feel their resentment, and as a result, turned a blind eye to the growing number of incidents of hate crimes.

I think about Dylann Roof and I just want to cry. Not just about what he did, but also the utterly humane and gentle way in which he was arrested. That's what black people accused of crimes deserve. Fair, humane treatment. Not pain and death.

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Where seldom is heard
a discouraging word,
and the cops are not guilty all day.

If you're bothered more by people kneeling during the national anthem (most don't even know the back story to why he took a knee) than you are by unarmed Americans being shot down in our streets, then perhaps your perspective is the problem.

Don't normally wear Nikes, but I went and bought a pair to piss off my crusty old conservative colleagues. And I will proudly wear them when I go to the booth to vote for Beto O'Rourke!!

What would Jimmy Carter do if he became president of the United States again? Pretty much the opposite of what the current Oval Office occupant is doing. “If I were foolish enough to feel I could be president again, I think the first thing I would do would be to change all of the policies that President Trump has initiated,” Carter, 93, said Wednesday night at Emory University. “I pray for him fairly regularly. If he answered my prayers, he’d have to change a lot of things.”

https://www.ajc.com/news/jimmy-carter-emory-change-all-trump-policies-were-president-again/malYxU7HDrgypZsV9sbqTM/?ecmp=pg&utm_medium=social&utm_source=pg_fb

Such a wonderful man.