The NRA’s Catch-22 for Black Men Shot by Police

The city of Dallas, Texas, has been rocked by news of an off-duty police officer shooting a black man in his own apartment. On September 6, the off-duty police officer Amber Guyger entered Botham Jean’s apartment and shot him dead. She has since claimed—after a number of shifting accounts—that she mistakenly thought she was entering her own apartment and believed it was being burglarized.

Most people reacted to the news of the shooting with outrage—regardless of the circumstances, shooting an innocent man dead in his own home is a horrible tragedy. Conservatives such as s that Guyger “committed a crime by forcing open Jean’s door, deliberately took aim, and killed him.” , “Even within the four walls of his castle, his home, Jean was not safe from undue police violence.”