It appears that a 1am raid was conducted on an apartment. It resulted in a woman killed, an officer wounded, and a man arrested. The man arrested doesn't seem to have been the intended suspect. Apartment owner claims to have not known his home was being raided by police, and as a result he fired on them.
https://www.wdrb.com/in-depth/attorn...Fm2vHgILwbBirU
This seems like a bad raid, bad shoot, and bad charge. There is a fair amount of things in the article that make it appear that way. Time will tell.
This particular event asside-
What can be learned from this?
And scenerios like it.
From a citizen's perspective, someone suddenly kicking in my door in the night and rushing in with guns is very likely to be shot at. If these guys didn't announce themselves, or were dressed in street clothes... I'm not certain many of us would respond much different. Meeting a police raid with gunfire is a recipe for losing loved ones and life. Not meeting armed home invaders with gunfire is a recipe for absolute horrors unknown.
I do not want this thread to devolve into an anti-police bash. I fear that it may. It is my sincere hope to learn whatever can be learned from this from a micro to macro level. Tactically, what could be done different when the door bursts open to men with guns and you don't know who they are? Strategically, what can be done to ensure this doesn't happen to you, or to make you more aware of who/what is happening BEFORE the problem? Socially, is there anything that can be done to better deselect yourself as a victim? Politically can what can be done to minimize mistakes - or take to task law enforcement leaders who create environments where this can happen? Is that even remotely a solution?
It's kind of like the first time I saw a video with an omplata taken all the way to the break, saw Dave Sevigny's FAST video, or read about the "Todd" opponent. Frankly, my reaction to this is "I can't beat that, or prevent it, and it's fucking terrifying." So how can I work on that to minimize it?
-Cory