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Kastrada posted...

I'm just talking in the general sense, not legal sense. She understood the levels of her crime and had one of two responses:

1. She couldn't handle what she did, which is odd considering she is a police officer and literally has training to deal with this.

2. She texted her partner and realized the severity of what just happened and still just let him bleed out.

After shooting him, she realized he was not an intruder and yet still didn't help. Malice through inaction. My opinion of course, not in a legal sense.

I get what you're saying and I totally agree that her behavior after the shooting was inappropriate, but I still don't see how you could classify it as malicious. Malice implies an intentional callousness which I just don't think is supported by the facts. I think she was genuinely in shock and that caused her to be negligent, not malicious, towards Botham.

And yeah I get that police officers are trained to deal with tough situations, but all of that training assumes that somebody else is the perpetrator. No doubt, she never prepared for a situation in which she'd be on the other side of the law.


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