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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Example 4. The cops break in without warning and you shoot them. They might be able to try you for murder, but if they made no announcement at all you might get off with self defense. It has happened.
Still a sticky situation.
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All the other cops have to do is say that they announced themselves. Who do you think the judge will side with? Unless the citizen records the audio....
How does a citizen prove that the police did not identify themselves?
Cops lie to protect other cops
Judges side with cops unless there is overwhelming evidence against them... and may still side with them.
Cops - presumed innocent
Citizen - presumed guilty
That's the type of country we have become.
I fear the police much more than I fear the federal government. And that is pretty sad.
The hypocrisy is that all this is in the name of "public safety".