Let me ask you a question: You are sitting at home smoking a cigar in your backyard, enjoying the night air. Then your phone rings and it is your daughter calling you from the West coast, telling you she hears some noises outside, somewhere in her back yard. Would you tell her to go outside into the back yard and check out the noises?
It’s incredibly rude to answer a question with a question.
You first.
After reading to the bottom, I'll answer this post of yours.
You have completely, totally missed this point, and you have no excuse for not thinking it through. The point is that I should never, ever expect to be shot by a policeman anywhere, much less on my own property, day or night.
On my own premises, unless he is sent to arrest me as a dangerous person:
o a law officer who is going to make my premises unsafe to be in, needs to come to my door, announce himself, notify me that he is about to do so, and warn me to stay inside.
o Uninvited, if I see someone out there in the dark he is a candidate for the business end of a shotgun.
o Uninvited, he had better presume that one occupant of the premises, and likely to be outside.
o Uninvited, he had better have a good-sized light announcing his presence.
Otherwise, he is an untrained fool. That also goes for a neighbor.
Then your phone rings and it is your daughter calling you from the West coast, telling you she hears some noises outside,
Do you think all women are so ineffectual and idiotic as to have to call a man because they 'hear noises' outside' instead of dealing with the situation themselves?
What good is calling someone going to do anyway? Do you think she'll confront the perp and tell them 'I have my male relation on the phone an he says "Go away!"
I'll agree with previous posters - she had every right to be in her own yard at any time of the day or night.
And I hope she winds up OWNING the cop.