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Originally Posted by jewels443
No political comment here. 
A man doesn't pick up a gun and shoot in his safe harbor/home unless he's in fear for his life (or pissed at his wife  )
Don't the cops have to yell a warning or knock before breaking down a door? |
It depends on the type of warrant that they've got. In certain situations, police can obtain "no knock" warrants to allow them to forcibly enter a home without warning. In fact, I believe there was a very similar case a while back where cops executed a warrant like this at the wrong address, a resident there shot at them, presumably to defend herself, and was killed by the police.
... Just looked it up, and here we go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Johnston