Imagine you are at home with your family just living your normal life when outside there's a bunch of flashing lights and obvious police activity.
You go to your door to see what is happening and unexpectedly find out the police are focused on your house and start shouting orders at you.
You would certainly be confused and surprised at this point as a bunch of armed people in police uniforms are telling you to do something.
Maybe you hear them but think it is clearly a case of mistaken identity so you reach for your ID.
Now you are dead.
It turns out that someone called in a false SWAT call and even worse used a phony address they had been given by an online gamer who they had a dispute with ($1 or $2 bet).
Of course the person making the call is guilty but you have to wonder how a trained group of police officers could roll up on a residential household, see no evidence of violence and just shoot a citizen who was unarmed and unthreatening because in that moment he failed to instantly obey shouted instructions?
I've heard of suicide by cop where someone decides to confront a cop but this is murder by cop.
Its likely that somehow the murderous police officer who shot an unarmed man, answering his door will be exonerated since his story that this person made a potentially threatening move to his belt is considered justification.
I just don't understand how a squad of heavily armed police, surrounding a residence would feel the need to fire without actually seeing a weapon?
I really just don't understand it and something needs to happen.
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