I’m not going to defend anyone who acted illegally or who deviated significantly from policy or their training.
“At first, the SWAT team had said Mr Guerena fired first, but then they retracted that statement, saying he had left the safety on.”
Care to defend that? They were caught in a lie.
“I’m not going to defend anyone who acted illegally or who deviated significantly from policy or their training.”
So as long as they were following orders it doesn’t matter what they do?
Did you watch the video. The "siren" sounds like a car alarm and muffled the officers shouting "police".
There is no reason why they can't have a working loudspeaker and have someone say "This is the police. We have a search warrant. Please lay down any firearms".
Instead we have a group entering in such a way as to cause maximum confusion. That's all well and good if you want to neutralize the person inside.