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In yet another incident of violence involving police and an ethnic minority, Dallas, TX police officer Amber Guyger, has been charged with manslaughter for shooting and killing Mr. Botham Jean. Reportedly, Officer Guyger mistook Mr. Jean’s apartment for her own and shot him when he opened the door to his own residence. In this episode of the Just Thinking broadcast, Darrell and ‘Omaha’ (Virgil Walker) discuss the concerning circumstances surrounding this incident, while pointing listeners to the truth of the gospel and what is fundamentally important for us, as Christians, to remember in light of this situation: that even police officers are sinners, as are we all, and that our desire for justice must be rooted in God’s standard of righteousness, and not in our ethnicity.
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What’s the difference between crime and sin!
Thank you for this!
I have gotten off the elevator when the door opened unexpectedly thinking it was my floor when it was not & I walked clear to the far end of the hall before I realized I was on the wrong floor. If my apartment were near the elevator I easily could have tried to open someone’s door in error.
There have been other times I’ve been on the wrong floor of a building & been totally disoriented because things did not look as I expected.
I have walked away with the wrong shopping cart at the grocery store.
I years ago had a friend with a car keyed like mine. Guess how I found out?
This was a tragic death & I have no idea what really happened but I do not find it suspicious that the officer went to the wrong apartment. It does not vindicate her but her having just worked a double shift may have been a factor. Extreme exhaustion is not unlike being drunk.