Never call the police on anybody or anything that you wouldn’t want them to kill.
Well of course modern police are trained to deal with threats.
When the father told the first responder what his son had said to him the officer understood that a threat had been made on the father’s life. The father had understood a threat of suicide.
Either understanding guaranteed a larger police response but the threat to the father guaranteed a SWAT response.
Thanks to the War On Drugs and Bill Clinton our Peace Officers have be turned in to a paramilitary organization that sees every situation as threat requiring overwhelming force.