Well, I half agree with you. The police have a GREAT responsibility not to harm innocent people. And too often they fail in that basic responsibility.
But that homeowner has a responsibility too, not to make a bad situation worse. He should have gathered his family behind a locked door, and awaited the cops. Instead he went with a gun to exactly the wrong place.
I didn’t post this article to berate him. People often make poor decisions under stress. I posted this article to give folks something to think about...it’s maybe something to add to the do-not-do list.
“The police have a GREAT responsibility not to harm innocent people. And too often they fail in that basic responsibility.”
In this instance, the homeowner should have advised the cops that he had the intruder at gunpoint, I will conceed that. But with all the stuff going on with the cops, they’re entirely too “concerned” with their own “wellbeing” to the exclusion of the public that they supposedly serve. The presence of a gun isn’t an “excuse” to take out the person holding it. As long as it isn’t pointed at them, it should not be considered a threat to be taken out without any command to drop it. This guy should get a lot of money and the cop who shot him should be finding another line of work.