So, if you do see a Ft. Worth police officer in your backyard, unannounced at night, should you be in fear for your life? Just saying....not a good precedent for them.
Unless you are a mind-reader, you don’t know what she saw. My vision is not that good and is getting worse as I age. It probably is a near a low at 2:30 in the morning.
Try this.
You are in your home and for whatever reason you are watching a bright TV screen at 2:30 in the morning. Your front door is open and you are enjoying bit of cool air from the night, relaxing in your home.
Suddenly you hear some scuffling outside on the house or the bushes and it sounds too loud for a cat or such. You think you see something at the window but you can’t make it out with your bright TV lighting up the living room and sending glare off the window and your eyes still not adjusting to dark after watching TV.
Your gun is just feet away and you can either try to close the front door unarmed, or you can get your gun and be armed when you approach your open door to close it. You get the gun. You turn back to the window and see the face of a man dressed all in what appears to be black. Cops don’t usually wear white or lemon yellow.
You are armed in your house with the front door open and a man looking at you through your window. The last thing you are thinking is “police”. And in any event you don’t see the lights of a patrol car, which might have helped her think “police” and he didn’t identify himself as a police man.
I can see a woman being in fear for her life at that time. 2:30 at night. No man in the home. Front door is open. A unknown stranger outside with uncertain intentions.
It is not as if she was on her porch when a patrol car stopped, lights flashing, a uniformed officer got out lit up by the porchlight and she just drew down on him.
It is very unlikely she knew a police officer was on the other side of that window. Very unlikely.