[latina4dubya]

"He would bend over backwards to make sure there was no confrontation... he was always prepared." well, busting into someone's home with a sledgehammer is about as confronting as you can get... and not wearing a vest--he wasn't so prepared this time... this was handled terribly... it's almost like the sending the BATF with tanks and machine guns to handle a bunch of cult members waiting for the battle of armegeddon... but on a much smaller scale... very sad, indeed...

[Loopy]

Seems to me that they asked him nicely a few times and he refused. They had apparently valid authority to arrest him. When he refused they apparently had the authority to forcibly arrest him. So this isn't some renegade cop busting down the door unannounced in the middle of the night. It's someone who did his job correctly and was shot for his trouble.