Of course it is tactically advantageous to be the one who is awake and alert and your adversary being the one rudely awakened…

Don’t do drugs. Don’t sell drugs. Don’t be a THOT. Don’t expect to reach Medicare/Medicaid enrolment if you live the thug life or live as a thug moll.

Your peers, not the po po, will be your undoing in most cases (which won’t be solved).

Last year during the demonstrations in Hong Kong it was not uncommon for a few van loads of police to show up in a quiet street after midnight and fire off tear gas at an imaginary invisible foe. Not quite the frigate firing broadsides into an empty African Jungle in Heart of Darkness, but you get the idea.

Multiple theories about why they did this, but the most parsimonious explanation was that they would get paid some very meaningful multiple of the regular overtime rate if they were engaged in ‘action’ and this even more so if it happened to be after midnight.

So perhaps the police in this case simply wanted to pocket more overtime?

We’ll never know.

But one thing many of us who have been around for a while do learn after a while is that often the *real* reason for something big happening is not the one which got past the journalists and ‘fact checkers’ – often something trivial, mundane, and/or sordid.

Didn’t bother to put ironic quotes around ‘Journalist’ above because by now there’s no need. The word is synonymous with ‘Whore’ and will remain so for the foreseeable future.

Then there’s this:
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Meantime, Hankison, who was in the parking lot outside the apartment, began firing when the commotion he could not have seen began. He sprayed the patio and a window with ten bullets — irresponsibly, to be sure, but fortunately without harming anyone. Hankison, who had a spotty disciplinary record in almost 20 years as a cop, was terminated when police officials judged that his conduct during the raid shocked the conscience.
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The police have not covered themselves in glory here. Which doesn’t justify the current riots, of course, but I’d say the police might do something rethinking about this scenario.

First you fake lemming behavior; then, the next thing you know, you’re faking Chinese history.

McCarthy:

At about 12:40 a.m., the police, led by Mattingly and Cosgrove, knocked on the door and announced themselves as police. Taylor and Walker were startled out of their sleep. Walker, a licensed owner of a nine-millimeter Glock, says he did not know it was the police at the door and speculated that it might be Glover breaking in. For their part, the police expected that Ms. Taylor would be alone — they had not seen Walker enter the dwelling with her.

It was dark and there was a long hallway between the bedroom and the front door. There was screaming.

If I had been Taylor, alone, I would have shot them!

However guilty or innocent she may have been, the outrage over her death is a phony cause. They are trying to gin up a race war or worse. Remember Manson and “Helter Skelter?” That was his goal. Ahead of his time, he was.

Guns and ammo are still flying off the shelves. I wonder if the brains behind these riots knows or understands what that portends?

A certain subset of women (and they may come from either side of the tracks and any socioeconomic / educational profile) will always Choose the Thug if society permits them to do so. And society today does allow them to make this choice.

It’s evolved lower brain-stem / between the legs stuff and no amount of debating or public policy round tables will change it. Rebuilding some Chestertonian Fences might, but we all know what chance there is of that.

She got caught in crossfire as the police acted in self-defense. I want to know what the theory of the case was. Negligent shooting?