Where does it say that the officers were impersonating drug dealers? And even if they were, why exactly is this a problem?
They quite easily could have identified themselves, since clearly they weren't dealing with a "target".
How do you know that the officers did not identify themselves?
A neighbor who was there and witnessed the events:
"They didn't have nothing on that said, POLICE. After the man told them to get out of his yard, they didn't say, 'We're holding a police investigation out here, or we're officers.' They didn't say none of that."How do you know that the officers did not identify themselves?
The eyewitness report from another neighbor who was there and saw what happened:
"That's the first thing he did. He came outside and asked, 'Will you please get off my property? You have no business on my property. You know you're wrong, get off my property.' The next thing you know, he said, 'He's got a gun.' So he ran around the tree and he shot Pops. Pops fell right here. Pops fired some shots, but all his shots hit the tree because the dude was behind the tree. That's exactly how it went," said Price Benton III, a neighbor.
From another news account:
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- An investigation is underway in Jacksonville to find out why undercover officers shot and killed an elderly man outside his home. 80-year-old Isaac Singletary died during a shoot-out with officers who were posing as drug dealers during a drug sweep.
According to the article, they were "undercover".