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brandunh11 posted...

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.

Because she was rational enough to realize what had happened and placed her own concerns above his life. She was worried more for the blowback on herself and texted her fuck-buddy/partner to help with her own issues rather than tend to the man bleeding out on the floor.

To me, that shows intentional callousness. If she were fetal-positioned on the ground or unable to do anything, I'd accept she was in shock. But she was able to call 911 (implying she understood the severity on what had happened) and instead of doing more, just focused on her own well-being.

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