Nope, not an idiot or a leo. Just someone with common sense.
You obviously do not understand the concept of freedom. Someone sneaking around any house where I live ....well..we do not go unprotected. Around here deputies will notify the homeowner if they want to traipse around their property.....day or night.
Sitting on the porch in a rocker....smoking a corn cob pipe....well maybe you get the picture?
You say wife , daughter etc. What if it was a man that heard a noise in his backyard and went out and got shot? Is he stupid?
Yeah. Us “civilians “ should never investigate in our own backyard because we might run into that greatest of dangers, someone from the government there to “ help” us.......
Common sense says that the cop had ZERO reason to be in HER backyard and that the Navy Vet has EVERY reason to investigate to see what is going on.
She is a sheepdog, not a sheep. A risk of being a sheepdog is that you have to face the wolf, not cower in the corner.
In this case, she met a wolf in sheepdog’s clothing.
A statist coward who worships government thuggery seems more like it.
What you call common sense I just grew up calling YELLOW-BELLY COWARD. MY yard, my property, my constitutional rights, my call on who gets shot. Trespass is a crime and in the middle of the night, it is a shooting crime.