Body camera footage shown in trial of former police officer captures chaos after fatal Dallas apartment shooting.
Jurors in the murder trial of Amber Guyger, a white former Dallas police officer who shot dead an unarmed black man in his own apartment after mistaking it for her own, were shown the harrowing body camera footage in court from inside the apartment complex that captured arriving officers' confusion after the incident.
The body camera footage, which provided multiple viewpoints, showed responding officers seeming to have trouble getting inside the building -- one officer could be seen jumping over a swimming pool wall to reach a gate -- so they could reach Jean's fourth-floor apartment. "She's hugging someone now?" Dallas County Assistant District Attorney Jason Hermus asked Sgt. Breanna Valentine on the witness stand.At one point, Guyger was even allowed to sit in a patrol car, looking at her phone while Jean was rushed to the hospital, Hermus said.
In court Tuesday, however, prosecutors pressed one responding officer about the protocol for when an officer believes that a burglary is in progess."Is that because of the sanctity of human life?" Hermus followed up.During opening statements Monday, Hermus said that despite working a 13 1/2-hour shift on the day of the deadly encounter, Guyger appeared to be planning a rendezvous with her police department partner and lover.
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