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... I'm not totally clear from the article what, exactly, Frank Zito was doing, but from other posts on the threads, it sounds as if he was talking to himself. It also sounds like his mother called the police, on the pretext of disturbing the peace, to get him yet another psych eval. I disagree that the police "had to immediately make the man cease and desist." After all, it's not against the law to be a nut!

Yes, if he wasn't being an immediate public nuisance, then the police shouldn't have broke in. But two dead cops for this error is extreme.

A "complaint" in and of itself does not mean a law was being broken, or had been broken.

It's against the law to disturb the peace.

In college I had a party one evening in my apartment. Some very studious neighbors called the campus police who knocked on my door. I saw them through the peep hole and talked to them through the door. They said there was a noise complaint. I asked what time it was, and assured them the music would go off before 10 p.m. - which it did. They hung around for a while, but there wasn't much they could do - I was within my rights too!

You have no respect for others.

This guy was just a murderer ... IF his acts were premeditated; IF the police acted within the law, and ;IF he had the capacity to make a rationale judgment, you may be right. Thanks for the discussion.

He's a murderer.