It isn't, however officers do have a right to defend themselves.
And you wonder why support for law enforcement goes lower every single day.
“It isn’t, however officers do have a right to defend themselves.”
So do citizens. This story would have been different were I in his position. I say that as someone who has actually fired on other humans in combat.
Not at the expense of a peaceful citizen in his own home they don’t. If they “want to go home safe at the end of the watch” let ‘em not bash in doors. Serving a warrent on the end of a bayonet is the behavior of the Stasi.
These guys are badge heavy cowards, wearing the white feather symbol of better men then they are, playing mall ninja with their license to home invade, shoot all the dogs and kill anyone who has the temerity to resist. They are one and all cowardly piss ants who belong in prison for their crimes.
This stuff will stop when a few citizens, warned by their dogs, pick up their FN/FALs or M-1As and cut the first through the door to bits with .30 Cal FMJ. Those heroes probably will not survive, but some folks are just insufficiently servile.