Yesw, but they shouldn't have been in his home. And they came in an explosive manner.
Imagine you are sleeping and a bunch of armed men with machine guns break into your home, and they haven't identified themselves.
I thinka rational person in that situation would try and defend themselves or flee.
In fact given the shock affect, I could see a rational person defending himself or fleeing even if he heard the indentification. You don't know they are police, and you haven't done anything wrong.
In this case the guy was lowerig his gun after the identification until the men dressed in black tactical uniforms and carrying machine guns moved towards him again. Thats a threatening move.
Also, I think he can be forgiven for raising the gun and firing at them AFTER they shot him in the head and chest.
ITs like an execution. Its far harder ti understand this than the marine killing the insurgent in Iraq.
We give our police more indemnity against consequences for mistakes than we do our military in a war zone.
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Originally posted by DeltAlum
There do seem to be a lot of police related shootings here. Wild West justice or something.
This case is fairly old -- Webb hasn't been mayor a while -- but it is still causing repercussions in terms of trying to bring more civilian oversite and police accoutability.
This case is pretty cloudy since the victim did point a wepon at police. In general, though, my answer to your specific question would by yes.
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