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Originally Posted by Rochard
No, not at all. Police can have a valid warrant, the right address, even though you've done nothing wrong.
This happened to me once. One night at 3am the local cops were banging on my door - loudly. I turned on all of the lights, confirmed they were police officers by looking out the window, and opened up my door. They cam in force - four of them - all armed with shot guns. They had a report of some kind of domestic disturbance, and for some reason they thought it was coming from my house.
Shooting them because they were "illegally trespassing on my property at 3am" never crossed my mind.
Listen, it's very fucking simple. If the cops raid your house for whatever reason you have two options:
1) Do what your told, hope it doesn't hurt too much when they drag your face on the floor, and then sue them for being idiots.
2) Open fire on police and be shot dead.
I know which choice I'm taking. Idiots.
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It seems to me there is a pretty big difference between then pounding on your door, you looking out the window and seeing they are police then opening the door and them smashing the door in and raiding the place.
What would your mindset had been if you woke up because you thought he heard a pounding on the door then the next thing you heard was the door get smashed in? When you heard it was the police, like you say, you can choose to hope for the best or shoot and I too would hope for the best and be planning my lawsuit as they finished their raid, but I can understand how some people could get confused.
In this particular case the wife actually said to the husband that they were being robbed and told him to get his gun.
It is a tragic situation all the way around. An innocent guy died. Two cops will have to live with killing an innocent guy for the rest of their lives and from what I understand this is a pretty small town and the police/city are going to get sued into oblivion.