In before all the Sikh worship starts.
“How could they shoot a veteran?”
A paranoid schizophrenic with a knife charging at a cop... classic suicide by cop. Why should he get a pass just because he was a veteran?
The Sikhs I have known are very concerned about respectability and being good citizens. They are also exceedingly pro-military.
In the 1980s they were purged from the US Army because of their beards, which was a crappy reason. Just a few years ago, the policy was changed letting them back in. And the first young man to graduate and go on active duty was seen as a hero.
Good neighbors.
Sikhs have been in this country a long time and are active in all walks of life. There are many Gurdwaras in the United States.
Some people think they’re Muslims and think they need to be killed.
This kind of thing is routine in India.
If the reports are correct, the man was not a stranger to the police - they had made visits to the home on previous occasions due to issues involving the man.
If all that is correct, it is not a matter of “cultural” misunderstandings; whatever other misunderstandings there might have been.