I remember reading about an incident in Texas... Houston?... where dozens of cops surrounding a house opened fire on a gunman who emerged and hundreds of rounds hit the HOUSE and a few hit the gunman.
I guess nobody wanted to be the one to actually shoot the guy or something
I think that was Lubbock TX, and it was an over response to a single guy in a house who was pissed at his cheating wife, and was throwing her stuff on the yard. Instead of sending a few boys in blue to talk to him low key, the sent a SWAT Team. He went inside, and they demanded he come out. One SWAT cop had a negligent discharge, leading to a circular firing squad through the house that killed a cop or two. They pinned these “murders” on the man inside, and he would have been fried, but he had no rifle in 5.56 mm. OOPS! So they perforated his house with 100s of bullets, but released him from the murder rap. “Sorry!”
Another case of those fantastic jacked-up police depts just doing the job so much better than civilians can ever imagine doing it.