I don’t believe it either.
It’s getting ridiculous the way the police are getting away wit raids on people’s homes. They claim they didn’t know his wife and child were there. What did they know? Where did they expect them to be? Don’t they have a lookout on the homes they get ready to raid?
No way they could get off the first shot on a marine who had an intention to shoot them.Definitely not 71 of them.
What are the rules of engagement? When a shot is fired everybody start shooting? It’s a miracle anyone survived.
It's not a matter of ROE so much as human reactions. It's called "sympathetic firing." Once ANYBODY fires a shot, most cops will empty a magazine. The Diallo case in NYC was the first famous example of this. He was reaching for ID to comply with a police order, another cop fired, and all the cops unloaded.
That is what SWAT does and should do.
However, they knew that they weren’t dealing with a big name hoodlum and that, if he was involved in criminal activities at all that he was fairly nonviolent and very smalltime.
In other words, the people who screwed this up were the ones that thought SWAT was the proper use of resources on this case.
That is who should be losing their heads over this one.
Which is interesting, considering it was his wife who spotted them outside the window - they were looking in - and alerted her husband. That should have been enough for them to re-think their tactics.