Alas, you too are falling for rabble rousing. The cops came to arrest the man for the allegedly illegal act of allegedly possibly pointing a gun at the census taker at the door. So far the legal sympathy is heavily towards the household, were it allowed to play out. Then the WOMAN pointed a gun at the cops, and blew it all. Literally.
The cops shouldn’t have even been there;the census worker should have been told “you’re lucky ,buddy,now go home and don’t go knocking on doors after dark”.