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This happened. There was a suicidal black man. Someone called 9-1-1. Said "this guy owns a gun." Canines, snipers, all showed up. Somehow a miscommunication happened over the radio, someone shot the suicidal guy in the head with a sniper. Portland Oregon in 2010. Aaron Campbell. No one remembers this shit.
Because it's happened at least a dozen times since then.
The tactical equipment these guys use, they see it like kids see toys. They're actively looking for any excuse to break it out and play with it.
The handful of cops I knew when I was younger and thought I wanted to be one all had the same attitude. If there's any possibility that the toys could be useful, they get the toys out. They're giddy about it.
So miscommunication? Maybe. Sounds more like they heard what they wanted to hear and anything else was just noise between them and getting to get the toys out and kill a man.
If they don't get the toys out, then they don't get to keep the toys: bureaucratic incentive amplifies risk.
A couple of years back I was at a wedding and ended up talking to a cop, they were telling us as if it was a good thing how they send out helicopters to catch people underage drinking in parks. Completely absurd and far more of a nuisance than people having a drink.
They also bragged about how their dog handler sicced a dog on a suspect and just let them get mauled, then everyone pretended they didn't see anything happen. Straight-up gloating about police brutality. The job just does not attract well-adjusted people.
https://www.portland.gov/police/open-data/aaron-campbell