Theres this old video of this police officer dash cam... I think from 1996.
Basically the police pulls over somebody, and the guy is acting crazy...but the police officer doesnt shoot immediately (like how everyone says they should wait) and the civilian ends up going to his truck, pulling out a rifle and killing the police officer and driving off, he was some crazed Vietnam veteran My step dad is a police officer and they show them that video in the academy to teach officers what could happen to them if they hesitate taking action in a situation like that
The officer was some young guy in his early 20s ...so pretty inexperienced... some background info on the situation
This shouldn't have been an analogous situation to that, though. Yes, the cops thought the guy inside was a major threat, but then they knocked on the door and waited for him to come open it. From a tactical standpoint, that's utterly idiotic. If you trust a guy enough to let him open the door for you, you should trust him enough to not shoot you as soon as he opens the door, and thus not need to shoot him. If he's dangerous enough to warrant shooting him as soon as he opens the door, don't let him open the door for you.
I agree, like i said before, other police officers have handled swatting cases without killing anybody. The police in this case surely made some stupid decisions , if he was a real threat he could of easily opened the door and gunned them down as they gave him the opportunity to.
But what I was getting at was the intense situation could cause irrational reactions, but as I said I still believe he should get a manslaughter charge