DALLAS (AP) — A white police officer accused of fatally shooting her black neighbor inside his own apartment has been dismissed, the police department announced Monday.
The Dallas Police Department fired Officer Amber Guyger on Monday, weeks after she fatally shot 26-year-old Botham Jean inside his own apartment on Sept. 6. Court records show Guyger said she thought she had encountered a burglar inside her own home.
Guyger was arrested on a preliminary charge of manslaughter days after the shooting. She is out on bond.
Jean family attorneys and protesters have called for her firing following the shooting.
Guyger was a four-year veteran of the police force. She told investigators that she had just ended a shift when she returned in uniform to the South Side Flats apartment complex.
When she put her key in the apartment door, which was unlocked and slightly ajar, it opened, the affidavit said. Inside, the lights were off, and she saw a figure in the darkness that cast a large silhouette across the room, according to the officer’s account.
She called 911. When asked where she was, she returned to the front door to see she was in the wrong unit, according to the affidavit. The 911 tapes have not been released.
Hey, Amber Guyger, you just got fired from the Dallas Police Department. What are you going to do now?
“I’m going to work in McKinney!”
Ted Cruz was using this case as a way to beat up on Beto O’Rourke claiming that he is anti law enforcement. Be he shifts tactics or denies he said it.
She went back to the front door? To get better reception, or to see what apartment she was actually in?
I should hope so! She has no business on the police force.
Good. I guess she’ll have to foot her own legal bills now without the help of her department. They must have internal knowledge that she’s full of shit. Finally they realized it was fish or cut bait. She was a bad cop and a liability.