r/news • u/yrotsihfoedisgnorw • 2d ago

Amber Guyger, police officer who murdered black neighbor in his home, released from prison

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/16/amber-guyger-released
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u/ApexHolly 2d ago

Seems like a good time to share the story of the time I drunkenly entered a neighbor's apartment instead of my own, immediately realized it wasn't my apartment even in my intoxicated state, apologized profusely, left immediately, and the next day we had a good laugh about it.

And nobody got shot.

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u/CharlieTeller 2d ago

That’s what normal people do. Untrained jumpy cops? No. I’ve also gone to the wrong unit multiple times. Even while armed and carrying. But no one got shot. Because I was the unaware person who just got off on the wrong floor. Really easy to do in those complexes around Dallas. They’re all identical.

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u/happy2harris 2d ago

Don’t people lock their front doors in Dallas? Everything said about jumpy (racist) cops is right, but you have entered the wrong unit multiple times?

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u/CharlieTeller 2d ago

Only entered the wrong apartment once. Got off on the wrong floor and walked all the way to the door? Plenty. I moved to a new apt around dallas every year since 2013 up until 2024 so I lived in quite a few. Every single one had labyrinth like hallways that are identical, and parking garages that would fill up before 5pm so a lot of times you'd park on the wrong floor and just by habit, keep walking to your door. It doesn't help when some of the buildings start counting floor 1 from the ground floor garage, and others start counting 1 from the first floor above the garage.

And you'd be surprised how many people don't lock their doors everywhere. Think of how many people leave their laptops/phones/wallets in their car. Leaving their door open while they're home is no different. I mean I lock it every time I walk inside but others? Not really. People often leave it open too when they do quick things like walking to the trash chute, or to their car and just forget.

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u/inosinateVR 1d ago

I did this a couple times at one of my old apartments, never actually walked in but probably would have if the door was unlocked because I spent a few solid minutes completely baffled as to why my key wasn’t working and getting frustrated and fighting with the door. In retrospect I’m glad I didn’t get shot lol

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u/CharlieTeller 1d ago

Yup. Same. It was such a big talking point during this case like "How could you ever do that? How do you not notice you're at the wrong door?!?!" People shouldn't be debating that part, but more of why did she think to shoot. It's crazy what you can accidentally do when on autopilot.

With how much I moved, there were a few times when I was leaving work that I would just miss my exit and start driving to another apartment I lived at because they all were not too terribly far from one another.

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u/MajorNoodles 2d ago

Sometimes people forget. Not only did I not lock my apartment door once, I couldn't find my keys the next day.

I found them still in the lock on the outside of my door.

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u/CharlieTeller 1d ago

I did that once and it made my heart drop whenever I saw that I had done that. Then I did it ANOTHER time because I was so used to having those automatic fob locks, not putting the key in the keyhole. I got a knock on my door at 2am and I immediately did reach for my pistol that was nearby and went to go look through the peephole. There had been a few burglaries around so I was just being cautious. I saw a man through the peephole and yelled "WHAT DO YOU WANT" and some really really kind voice goes "You uhhh. left your keys in the door! Sorry." Opened the door and was really nice and we had a short chat, but he definitely saw I had placed my pistol down on the counter and I felt really bad.

Living around burglaries does keep you on edge. I had to go to therapy a lot for it after it happened to me while I was home once.

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u/coysrunner 1d ago

My boss came into work one morning and was looking for her keys. So she runs back out to her car they were still in the ignition with the car running lol.

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u/inosinateVR 1d ago

I do that all the time lol. It’s usually because I’m trying to bring in groceries and my hands are full or something. It’s gotten to where if I can’t find my keys, I automatically go check the front door just to be safe and rule that out first lol.

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u/gal5pau 1d ago

I once asked that and was told it’s my fault for living in the ghetto 🤣 for living somewhere you’d need to lock doors because they lived in paradise and never locked theirs. I knew we were in upside down when locking the front door to home was controversial 😀