Did you just graduate from the academy?
It's not always by the book, and there is that little thing called discretion. Clearly there was no common sense discretion used here. And I base this on the officer subsequently being suspended from duty.
I didn't just graduate from anything. I've just known several LOLs (little old ladies) with shotguns by the door. Some were out in the country and felt alone and isolated. Some were in homes in declining neighborhoods, but refused to leave.
I know at leas one woman in her '80s who walked out on the porch in her house coat and pointed a double-barrel to chase the crack dealers from her lawn. They moved down the block.
It's not always by the book, and there is that little thing called discretion.
Yeah, ain't that fun? I don't know what you do for a living, but I'm guessing that whatever it is, it doesn't involve people on a national Web forum opining that if they disagree with your exercise of discretion you should have been shot to death.
Clearly there was no common sense discretion used here.
That is not at all clear to me. If you consider it a matter of "common sense" that old folks are no threat, I hope that you're not a cop; and if you are, I hope you're never proven wrong.
And I base this on the officer subsequently being suspended from duty.
Then you're basing it on nothing.
Suspension from duty is a matter of routine when there's a pending investigation. That has no bearing on the strength or the evidence or the outcome of the investigation.