If you enter private property forcibly, you should expect to be shot at. If you shoot back while having forcibly gained illegal entry to private property, you've committed a crime. It seems fairly open and shut to me. The only hold up is police and court system corruption along with a healthy dose of good old fashioned racism. Again, just my opinion.
Originally circumstances were rare - 3,000 no-knock raids in 1981, increasing 50,000 in 2015. That's ridiculous.
For someone outside the US this is such a crazy statement.
America has more than just a few home invasions and murders. If someone is trying to break into your home, especially at night, there's a high chance that that person is not only willing to maim or kill you, but planning to do so. America has around 1 million home invasions per year and help isn't always nearby. Waiting can easily result in the victim being killed.
The man who shot at police here was worried that someone would end up killing him or his girlfriend. Unfortunately, he was right.
Most cops don't need guns. Almost no normal civilians need guns. The entire developed world that's not the USA gets by just fine without the 'right' to own a semi-automatic machine gun.
Note: Where I live, most young men, and some young women, have assault rifles at home. Cops still don't kill people. (might savoir-vivre have something to do with this juxtaposition?)
(speaking of refactoring tech debt, the Duke of Wellington was one of the signatories to an international treaty which may have helped inspire the "Monroe Doctrine". [flagged] discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23359754 )
The job of the justice system, and the police, is to keep non criminal people safe, all of them, even if it means not being able to catch a few criminals here and there. It's obviously not the case in the US though, just looking at wrongly convicted people gives you a good idea of what the US system is about [0]. This kind of shit should never ever happen, it's the very basis of any serious justice system.
Also, this is exactly why countries like France have laws preventing police interventions between 9pm and 6am (it obviously has exceptions, but even then they need a special authorisation). You don't storm people houses in the middle of the night and start shooting when the confused people you just woke up start panicking... seems like common sense to me
As far as I can tell you're legally allowed to own a gun and use it to defend yourself against intruders, you can't use this as a valid argument in that case. The only shocking thing here are the police tactics, not the fact that this dude defended himself.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_miscarriage_of_justice...
You seem to be attempting to put forth a narrative that the boyfriend somehow made a mistake. Probably in some misguided attempt to support the police in this incident. But you're not helping the cause of LEO's right now. You're actually doing enormous harm to it. When you make mistakes you admit it, you hold people accountable, and then you fix the issues that lead to the mistake. That inspires confidence. The response of you and the Louisville PD and court system inspires not only lack of trust and lack of confidence, but also widespread animosity.