How can you not tell if somebody is a cop? And either way any normal person would have said "Who is it?". The cops should have identified themselves yes, but it is not murder as they did not intend to come into the house to kill the person. Manslaughter, but really it is just self defense. The cops were completely in their rights to do that as would anybody. If a gun is pointed at me, I will shoot that person too. And if he doesn't know who it is, don't open the damn door with a gun out or else shit will get real right off the bat. He was probably expecting trouble because he had it out, could have easily kept the gun pointed down, or tucked into his pants.
Remove legal immunity from police and prosecutors in these situations. Show up at the wrong door, fail to identify yourself and then shoot someone? Mr. Officer, sir, you are now on the hook for manslaughter.
Do that a couple times and every single police department in the country will get the message. SWAT teams and midnight raids will become much more careful.
Law and order starts with the police obeying the law. If they can't do that, they're useless.
They didn,t shoot him for nothing he had a gun in his hand... so he got what he deserved. Another scumbag of the streets GG.
as the door opened why didnt they start shouting "POLICE GET THE FUCK DOWN !!" if the guy didn't do anything wrong he'd drop to the floor.
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They should of announced themselves. Frankly, if i had a gun, and someone was banging at my door at that time i would definitely grab it just in-case.
He wasn't protecting himself. Until you have reports that the police were threatening him, and not just demanding that he open up, it was not self defense. And it's still extremely stupid to do what he did reguardless of threats or not. Call the police, put yourself somewhere safe. Defend yourself if you have to.
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how bout this for comparison
Do you understand you can't go into a Webster's dictionary and define assault? Assault is defined by the State of Florida, not Mirriam. Specifically, F.S.S. 784.011, 784.021 and 784.05 come into play here. Please note 7.4.021 (1)a which specifically states "With a deadly weapon without intent to kill" which basically makes you full of shit and not worthy of any further debate, other than to point out that the officers are guilty of culpable negligence under 78.405
In many jurisdictions, the only difference between the police and criminals are the badges.