[fwdude]

This was a bad shoot without a doubt. You never shoot someone IN THEIR OWN HOME without warning.

But is was not race-related... at all. So that notion needs to be squashed.

[Dan in Wichita]

This was a bad shoot without a doubt.

The police officer should always wait until he sees the flash of a gun pointed at him before returning fire. Don't you agree? /sarc

[Leaning Right]

> This was a bad shoot without a doubt. <

I gotta agree. That woman did absolutely nothing wrong. In fact, she did exactly what most of us here would have done: she grabbed a weapon to defend herself and her family.

Did the cop feel threatened? I suppose so. But a professional should be trained to rapidly assess a threat, even when under pressure. Shoot first and ask questions later shouldn’t be a reflexive response.

I also wonder why the cop just didn’t quickly move away from the window, and out of the line of sight of whomever was inside the house. After all, this wasn’t high noon on the streets of Dodge City.