Wow, WTF? I support the blue but this seems like a horrible travesty of justice. I did not hear them identify themselves as the police when they were pounding on the door. Yeah, answering the door with a gun in your hand is not a good idea but getting blasted for it?
Well I heard them very clearly shout after knocking that they were the police.
Come on.....a guy answers the door with a gun in his hand? And the police should do nothing?
Are you a Democrat?
“Yeah, answering the door with a gun in your hand is not a good idea”
I always do, but that’s what peep holes are for as well.
Also, people are not obligated to answer their doors if they don’t want to.
Apartment living is serious drama however. Everybody complains about everybody.
There are things in life that seem really dangerous, but really are not, and there are other things that don’t seem dangerous, but really are.
Whenever you come into contact with police and you have a gun in your hand, there is a serious risk that your soul will be leaving your body that day. They identified themselves. Their fear for their own lives kicked in and his reflexive move cost him.
Never brandish a gun unless you are fully prepared to discharging it. Never discharge a gun unless you are shooting to kill.
There is no way in hell I’d open the door to people who claimed to be cops - while I have a gun in my hand.
“Yeah, answering the door with a gun in your hand is not a good idea but getting blasted for it?”
There is normally a pattern in this discourse:
Knock, knock, knock...
WHOSE THERE!!??
They knocked, and identified themselves as Phoenix police. He’s was really stupid to appear at the doorway with a gun in hand after they identified themselves.
This was not a sting operation, and they told them who they were before the door opened. I can’t remember the number of times police have been ambushed in traffic stops or requests for information at homes. And the first thing they did was order the dropping of the gun and he didn’t.
rwood