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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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Twice in the Bay area in the last 15 years: Two Richmond officers in DEA ski mask gear in the dark were killed by an apartment dweller with a .22 rifle(through their Kevlar) as they came up the stairs stealthily. No charges were preferred against the shooter, an elderly immigrant. The really bad one was in Contra Costa county: the PD on a bad drug warrant, arrived at the wrong high end abode and broke in. The gun owning home owner was shot and killed on his stair balcony taking on supposed intruders. No charges were preferred against the
keystoners. It goes both ways. They don't call the Richmond district the Iron Triangle for nothing or California the
wild west for nothing.