As someone who owns land in Prentiss Mississippi, I can tell you that these cops aren't trained like big city cops. This was a local police raid? Not DEA, not FBI, not state police.
I can also tell you that EVERY house has at least a squirrel gun in Jefferson Davis county.
The truth will never be known. The cops will protect their own. They will say that they announced that they were cops before entering true or not. It was probably just a small town screw-up.
This case sounds shaky. A young Black man with no criminal history, in a small southern town, shoots the police son of the local police chief in a drug raid "gone bad". No drugs are found in the house. Why aren't the NAACP or Jesse Jackson and company jumping all over this one and trying to get more information and/or fight for this guy?
"The truth will never be known. The cops will protect their own. They will say that they announced that they were cops before entering true or not."
What if they did announced they were cops... it does mean that the sleeping man heard them. It seem like this could be a tragic mistake.