It felt like a home invasion because it was a home invasion. I fear that the practice of aggressive home invasions by police will only end after an innocent citizen shoots a cop and causes a show trial. (It would have to be a white citizen, of course. A black person who resists an illegal assault by cops is automatically guilty.)
Criminals do pose as cops to carry out home invasion robberies. Armed defense against someone breaking in who claims to be a police officer is therefore not irrational or imprudent, and such violent behavior by police puts good citizens in a hell of a dilemma.
Lyons: Police raid felt like home invasion (HeraldTribune.com)
Goldsberry was terrified but thinking it just might really be the police. Except, she says she wondered, would police talk that way? She had never been arrested or even come close. She couldn't imagine why police would be there or want to come in. But even if they did, why would they act like that at her apartment? It didn't seem right.
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The tip was never about Goldsberry's apartment, specifically, Wiggins acknowledged. It was about the complex.
But when the people in Goldsberry's apartment didn't open up, that told Wiggins he had probably found the right door. No one at other units had reacted that way, he said.
Maybe none of them had a gun pointed at them through the kitchen window, I suggested. But Wiggins didn't think that was much excuse for the woman's behavior. He said he acted with restraint and didn't like having that gun aimed at him.
As for the author's description of Wiggins as "a well-trained officer", that's belied by events here. It's further evidence of how many of our law enforcement officers are desperately underqualified and undertrained.