You should click the waco keyword and read up on the event. There was a brawl before shooting occurred. A brawl means multiple assault-and-battery charges. Why were the Waco Police at the scene before any crime was committed? What were they expecting to happen? Did they ignore the commission of multiple felonies in anticipation of making a more important arrest?
“There was a brawl before shooting occurred. A brawl means multiple assault-and-battery charges.”
Most accounts seem to describe the brawl escalating INTO a gunfight in short order, so I really wouldn’t consider that some separate incident the police could have been addressing in order to prevent a gunfight...
“Why were the Waco Police at the scene before any crime was committed?”
Maybe because they knew 2 criminal gangs who were at war with each other were likely to show up there?