[Mad Dawg]

When people ask me about carrying, I urge them to imagine pieces of somebody's skull and brains hitting the wall behind him. Then I say, "If you can get to the point where you're okay (not comfortable, just okay) with that, where you can decide safe, at home, alone that that is something you're prepared to see and be responsible for, then you should think about carrying. If you have a gun, a situation in which you might need it is NOT The time to ponder that question.

Similarly, while I wargame and visualize de-escalating or avoiding confrontations so that I don't have to break leather, I guess we all should also visualize what to do when an LEO breaks bad on us and all we're doing is breaking our diet.

[Rocky Mountain High]

You lost me on your first point (I wasn’t asking about carrying, I do it all the time), but this case is much different than SWAT coming in the wrong house in the middle of the night. He was dealing with bad LEO’s BUT he had the chance to disengage and he chose not to.
As for his kids, they had to see their dad roughed up and arrested when they could have all gone home planned a legal retaliation.