[dragnet2]

Did you read the whole article? It says she called 911 to report what she thought was a break in.

I read it. You forgot this part.

""After doing a perimeter check and finding no signs of anyone trying to break in and after trying to contact Ms. Huddleston with no response, the lieutenant sent other officers to the back of the house while he forced entry.""

It begs the question, if there were no signs of break in or forced entry, why would they then attempt to force entry?

According to Ms. Huddleston, she thought the man outside prying open her front door lock

Ya see, LE can obtain the telephone number of any residence, if she called 911, they had her number anyway and could have simply called it and ask the occupants to come outside. Or simply knock on the door.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

It begs the question, if there were no signs of break in or forced entry, why would they then attempt to force entry?

Exactly. The answer is, of course, in their minds was, "We're the Police. We can do anything we want. Property rights be damned. What are those anyway?"

[End Times Sentinel]

Ya see, LE can obtain the telephone number of any residence, if she called 911, they had her number anyway and could have simply called it and ask the occupants to come outside. Or simply knock on the door.

The article says they attempted to contact her, but were unsuccessful. How do you suppose they tried to contact her? Telegram? Write her a letter? Ouija board? Carrier pigeon?

On one hand we have a trained, veteran LEO, following procedures. On the other, we have an addled, 92 year old, who's been imagining people are breaking into her house, and, unable to respond to LE contact, instead decides to squeeze off a blind shot.

I know who I think I'd give the "benefit of the doubt" to. But then again, I'm not a blind cop-hater.

Some of the folks around FR, the cop-hater contingent, remind me of the folks at DU who hate the armed forces irrationally.