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-Based on her testimony (and that of neighbors) the yelling and shots all happened within seconds. She never took into account that maybe he couldn't hear her (this is very likely because he was wearing air pods at the time), or that the person was deaf, hard of hearing or not an English speaker before just shooting. Could have even been a maintenance man on legitimate duty.

-Her dumbest moment on the stand was when the defense asked her why she texted Martin Rivera (her partner) after the shooting. Her response was because she wanted him to come because he was somebody close to her whom she could trust. Then she said something to the effect of "Being there alone with [Botham] was the scariest feeling I could imagine". The prosecution flipped this on her and asked "Wouldn't an intruder busting in your door with a gun trained on you threatening to shoot be a scarier situation?" which she had to admit was true. He used that statement to show that she was once again putting her needs and feelings over that of a dying man's.

-Her second dumbest moment on the stand was when she admitted that the door was slightly ajar and she could hear movement inside the apartment. She felt the best thing to do was confront the intruder head on. The prosecution used this fact to argue that she had an opportunity while still outside to find concealment, call for backup (police arrived in 2 minutes by the way), and formulate a plan. In fact (and this is where it looks really dumb for her), the prosecution pointed out that the de-escalation training she took just 4 months before the incident teaches that you should take advantage of time and dont take assumptions as fact. When asked whether she remembered this, Ambers response was I dont remember that. The prosecution responded Were you paying attention during those classes to which Amber responded I dont remember. The prosecution then asked Did you change anything about the way you did police work after that training to which she responded No. The prosecution then asked Then what was the point of that training and she responded I dont know. --- This is all paraphrased based on my memory and notes I was writing but yeah, it explains a lot about the state of police training in this country.

-Another dumb moment for her on the stand was when the prosecution was drilling her about the various differences between the 3rd and 4th floor. Several huge differences such as a huge plant one of her neighbors had which Amber passed by literally every day, or some of the decorative floor mats. Amber claimed not to have ever really noticed any of it.yet shes a police officer, trained to be observant. Fact is she missed several cues that should have alerted her that she was on the wrong floor including the big red floor mat outside Bothams door, the door numbers on the 4th floor all start with 14 (versus the 3rd floor where they all start with 13), her neighbors big plant, the fact that the stairs she passed stopped on the 4th floor (instead of continuing to go up like youd see on the 3rd floor), the fact that his apartment smelled like weed (according to all officers who entered) and last but not least, the fact that a man was just chilling in the apartment

But yeah at the end of the day, the defense called Texas Ranger David Armstrong back to the stand where the judge allowed him to give testimony on the reasonableness of the shooting but did not allow him to give an opinion as to whether a crime had occurred. Id argue that by saying her actions were reasonable, hes inadvertently saying that no crime was committed. So yeah fuck this guy and his ridiculous stance. On the stand he sounds like a total robot just reading from the blue script. Unfortunately, I didnt get to see the prosecution cross examine him.

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