Americans need to open up their eyes and see how they are being manipulated by the media. Because these brazen attacks against our law enforcement officers are all but ensuring they are convicted before they ever get a trial.

Late Saturday night, CNN released an article: A woman was shot and killed by a Fort Worth police officer in her own home.

CNN, in their typical race-baiting, anti-police style, opened with this sentence:

“A black woman was shot and killed by a white police officer in her Fort Worth, Texas home.”

In doing so, they are effectively saying that the cop was racist and killed the woman because she was black. Take special note of their typical reporting, where they only mention race when it fits their narrative.

So without the anti-bias slant, here’s what really happened.

A Texas woman was shot and killed by a Fort Worth police officer who was called to the woman’s home for a welfare check, authorities said.

In a statement, the department said it received a call at 2:25 a.m. reporting an open front door at a residence. Responding officers searched the perimeter of the house and saw a person standing inside near the window, according to police.

“Perceiving a threat, the officer drew his duty weapon and fired one shot, striking the person inside the residence,” the department stated.

In body camera video released by police, two officers search the home from the outside with flashlights before one shouts:

“Put your hands up, show me your hands.”

One shot is then fired through a window.

Officers entered the house and located an individual and a firearm and began performing emergency medical care.

The wounded woman succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. There were no other injuries.

The officer has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation, according to police. He has been with the Fort Worth Police Department since April 2018. Placing an officer on administrative leave is NOT indicative of guilt, but rather is standard operating procedure.

The department released bodycam footage of the incident “to provide transparent and relevant information to the public as we are allowed within the confines of the investigation”, it stated.

Any video taken inside the house could not be distributed due to state law.

That state law, of course, doesn’t stop CNN from attacking the department, suggesting they are hiding something:

“CNN requested the unedited body camera footage, an incident report and dispatch audio from the dispatch call that prompted the response, but a police spokesperson said nothing additional will be released at this time,” the CNN report said.

The neighbor who called 911 about the open front door told Fox 4 the police officers didn’t announce who they were or knock on the door before searching the outside of the house.

“When I made that non-emergency call, I didn’t say it was a burglary. I didn’t say it was people fighting. I didn’t say anything to make them have a gun. All they needed to do is ring the doorbell,” James Smith said.

Of course Mr. James Smith wasn’t actually there when the officer saw a threat brandishing a firearm. But apparently he knows all about policing, because he once called them.

“They didn’t park up front, they parked on the side. They sent SRT, which is the special response team. They didn’t have a plainclothes officer to knock on that door,” activist and pastor Kyev Tatum said to local media outlets.

Take special note of the word “activist”. ‘nuf said.

It’s crucial that in this age where we are in the middle of a war on police, we take special note of the clear bias in the media reporting that ensures that officers are convicted – at least in the court of public opinion – before they ever get a shot to plead their case in the court of law.

The incident comes less than two weeks after a white former Dallas police officer was sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing her black neighbor inside his own apartment. Amber Guyger said during her trial that mistook Botham Jean’s apartment for her own, which was one floor below Jean’s.

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Guyger, 31, was convicted of murder for Jean’s September 2018 death.

“I never wanted to take an innocent person’s life. I’m so sorry,” Guyger said during her testimony. “This is not about hate — it’s about being scared.”

Instead of going with a lesser charge of manslaughter, the prosecution pressed forward with the murder charges, working to prove that the off-duty officer had acted recklessly when she used deadly force to neutralize the perceived threat.

Prosecutors say that just after 10 p.m. on September 6, 2018, Guyger accidentally entered the wrong unit in her apartment complex after she returned home from her 13.5 hour shift. She was off-duty, but was still in uniform.

Upon entering the apartment and seeing a “large silhouette”, which she mistook for a burglar who had broken in, Guyger reportedly drew her service weapon and shot 26-year-old Botham Jean in the darkness.

Botham Jean, a St. Lucia native who went by Bo and had reportedly moved to Texas after being hired by a prestigious accounting firm, was killed during the encounter.

Guyger had parked on the fourth floor, instead of the third, where she lived, according to an affidavit filed for the officer’s arrest warrant, possibly suggesting she was confused or disoriented at the time of the shooting.

She said she entered the apartment—which she believed to be her own—after realizing the door was unlocked and slightly ajar and then saw a figure in the darkness. Guyger said she gave verbal commands, because she believed her apartment was being burglarized, and then drew her weapon and fired twice, the affidavit said.

It wasn’t until she had turned on the lights that she realized she was in the wrong unit and had shot the man who actually lived there.

During her frantic 911 call, she repeated “I thought it was my apartment” nearly 20 times.

Other residents within the apartment complex had said that the layout could be confusing and that a large portion of tenants had said that they’d accidentally parked on the wrong floor of the garage during their time there. Guyger had only been living in the unit for a few months.

But the prosecution said that the former officer missed too many clues about the apartment, noting that Jean had a large red doormat outside of his unit that she should have noticed.

The trial lasted a week, in which the jury heard the 911 call Guyger made after the fatal shooting, read texts between Guyger and a superior officer that she had reportedly been romantically involved with, and watched body cam footage from the officers that responded to the scene that night.

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