. *It's probably mostly used while they are away, and it is very possible their phones were shut off in another room charging; the family were in bed sleeping.*

100% of the blame lies with the incompetent cops and dispatcher, I hope the family owns the dept and the murderers do jail time, though of course they will investigate and find they did nothing wrong

@@ST19859that’s because they did nothing wrong.

@@_DB.COOPER Thats what all corrupt cops say

@@ST19859 have you ever been a cop or a corrupt cop?

You were right.@@ST19859

Great summary of this! Dotson used the threat of deadly force without any valid justification. He provoked and invited deadly force by those cops in self-defense.

Or the cops could read and go to the right address.

@@darksideblues135 No, mistakes happen with addresses often; poor signage, etc. That's a fact of life even among professional deliverers. Anticipate someone lost or in need of help.

@@darksideblues135 I'm pretty sure everyone has accidently found themselves lost or at the wrong location at some point in their lives. I know I have.

@@jabberingjeffGive me any address in any city in this country and I can use google to pull up that address and get everything you want to know about that address. Taxes, liens, builder, previous owners, maps to and from, etc. These guys can find a single hair under a pile of dog poop in an open field to catch a murderer but not one person in a police department can google their own property records just to be sure. The police never make mistakes. Just ask them.

They did announce themselves as police… come on man.

@@craigmack3361 Yes. But, he still could have checked his Ring video feed first.

Because it gives your family a lasting memory of your last moments on Earth.

@@lewisner Apparently.

@@craigmack3361- Who cares if the cops didn’t announce themselves? I’m not trying to be nasty or anything, but you obviously are a one dimensional thinker. I was knocked on my neighbors door when their dog got out of the yard, should they have slammed open the door and pointed a gun in my face too? Anybody could knock on anybody’s door. That’s why I say you’re a one-dimensional thinker. Even if you’re anti-cop 100%, your take still does not make any sense.

How was this guy a criminal?

Because the cops came to the wrong house?

Or the genius cops could try going to the right address

Stay out of trouble and you don't have to screen your visitors on a camera.

@@terryl.cooper But, what about criminals?, maybe you should just leave all your valuables outside. 🤣

Obviously, you've never had firearms training. The video just showed that he did not point the weapon as if he was aiming. The stance he took was a "ready" position. Though the firearm was forward, it was not leveled to point at any target. That position is SOP when you do not know if you will be required to discharge the weapon in your defense.

@@davidhorsley1149 That doesn't matter. What should be obvious, was that it was wrong to jump out the door with a firearm in the first place! What sensible person would do that, especially if you don't know who is outside, how many there are, or even if they present a threat? Why even open the door? Call 911 and stay inside, like a normal person would do, just in case there is a threat outside. Defend your living space, not your front yard!

@meatpopsicle1567 No one can say what his frame of mind was. It was said, he had been in bed and one of his children said someone was trying to get in the house. Plus, the police have a duty to identify themselves, and if you watch the video, though the officer did say police, he barely did so in a voice that could be heard through a door. I doubt the residents inside heard him. Lastly, as to your defend your "living space" bull shit. In my state and many others, property ownership is a Constitutional right. There is no distinction as to whether that is personal property or real property, inside your home or outside. If it is your property, you have a Constitutional right to defend it, including your automobiles and the yard surrounding your home. The part that is not clearly heard in this video is that the two officers that were away from the door voiced the fact that they had the wrong address. If you watch the video , you see the officer in the background go back to the front, check the address, and admit they are at the wrong address. In this instance, the police made a mistake that cost an innocent man his life, they had a duty to pull back until they were sure of what they were doing. And as far as I know they have not been held accountable for their negligence. I am totally "Pro-Police", but Police are human too. And when they end a person's life through carelessness or negligence, there needs to be equal consequences to a citizen costing an officer his life. At the bare minimum, these officers should be removed from the force and prohibited from working in law enforcement anywhere else. They obviously do not have what it takes to be entrusted to patrol a community while armed. As to any mistake you attribute to the homeowner, he paid the ultimate price and his family is still paying today.

. *In her view, she was responding to intruders who just murdered her husband, and it was not the same thing; his gun was pointed towards the ground as he likely had no intention of shooting and just wanted to scare the intruders off.*

Actually. They do. Thevcops went to the wrong address.

How do you know he was lonely? Did he look sad? @@

Cops could go to the right address. More like the cops fault.

@@darksideblues135yeah, they should have told the dispatcher that they “just feel” the address that was typed in and sent them to was wrong. That makes so much sense. Idiot.

100% officers to blame, you try getting woken up out of a deep sleep to thugs pounding on your door and see how you react

@@ST19859 they’re wrong for being dispatched to the wrong address?? 🤣🤣 tell me more!! The DISPATCHER gave them the wrong address! Partway through the other officer confirms the address with them and they find out it’s not that address it’s the other one. Besides, the dead guy clearly has a sting camera, why didn’t he use it to see that it was police? He just came out blasting. His fault.

​@@sigguy1361he didn't get a shot off, u can be right but if u say wrong shit then it ruins everything else you say

That is absolutely not the end of the story. People don't immediately die when cops show up to their house, even if they're in the wrong place. It has to escalate much further than that. Thats what the homeowner did... escalated it beyond all saving.

This commenter specifically is truly beyond stupid. This happened because the homeowner (1) forgot what his own Ring doorbell is and (2) subsequently came out with a gun without even checking the Ring doorbell. Who cares if they were at the wrong house? Police or not, it happens all the time.

@@the.seagull.35 The only ones escalating in this case are, as usual the cops. None of this would have happened if they were competent enough to go to the right house

Coming out of a deep sleep, people don’t have their full awareness.

@@w.harrison7277 point taken

@@glennjohnso310 on the other hand, you could say that if you don’t have your full awareness, you shouldn’t have a gun in your hands.

I agree 100%. I have a Ring camera front and back. Anyone knocking on my door I can check the camera in seconds before opening the door.

If he was a sleep he may not have known they were cops.

They had no legal reason for being at this man's house. He had the constitutional rights to protect his home and family from government tyrants.

So by your logic. Anyone wearing a cop uniform is good to go? 😂

@@jamesweaver1738 Do you pull over for black and white cars with flashing blue and reds?

No, people aren't missing that fact. What you've missed is that the fact they were at the wrong address is irrelevant.

You are right about one thing though: his death was not necessary, but he's the one that caused it😒

Its not a death sentence for you if the cops stop by your house, I don't care what time of day or night, or whether its the right or wrong address. The owner escalated the situation so much further than it needed to go. He came out with a HANDGUN AIMED DIRECTLY AT THE OFFICERS, who had already announced themselves multiple times. This was not a murder, if anything it was a suicide by cop. very sad and senseless event

That homeowner made more than one mistake. I could find three mistakes he made. If you think this is the fault of the police. Looks like we will be watching your demise on the next video.

Normal people don't act this way, especially when you have a Ring doorbell that sends a notification to your phone when movement occurs.

. *He did not come out shooting; the gun was pointed toward the ground and he got zero shots out.*

Exactly this, pretty pathetic all the bootlickers here high fiving these murderers. THEY came to his house, THEY got the wrong house, THEY barely announced themselves. He had every right to come out like that at his OWN residence even if it wasnt the most tactically smart move. All involved should do hard time but of course that will never happen

😂😂😂another "expert"😂

Thank you, Hugo Boss, for that expert opinion on police fashions.

The vest protects the main vital organs. It is fit short on purpose so that the Officer wearing it can sit inside a vehicle without having to take it off. Now you know.

. *It was after 11:30PM at night; usually people that are known call first, especially so late in the night when everyone is in bed.*

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So what! People make mistakes in the dark all the time. What possible reason would justify a person to come bursting out of a door while brandishing a handgun simply because someone knocked on it? Is that how you answer the door?

@@meatpopsicle1567 Because it is night and you do not know who is at the door, what their true intentions are. Besides; he is in his own home and he has a right to protect it and himself. Cops opened up right away. They should have said "police, put down the gun!"

@@georged.2788 So, rather than looking at his Ring video feed, he decided to be Butch Cassidy and ended up going out in a blaze of gunfire. Smart. Yeah, he has a right to defend his house, but what good is it if it gets you killed for no good reason? No one was trying to force the door open. They were simply knocking. He could just as easily have looked at his Ring video feed as having picked up a pistol and charged outside like Han Solo. Which one would be more likely to have kept him alive, I wonder....

​@@georged.2788you're an idiot. He opened the door pointing the gun in the cops direction with the finger on the trigger. He was ready to shoot at them.

Daniel, it works both ways. If the police alert a criminal too much it gives them time to ambush them. I am a gun owner but I would never answer a knock by opening the door and immediately pointing a gun out of it. That was just crazy.

That’s not how you answer a door. I always look to see who’s there first. Totally preventable.

​@@potterhead338👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Exactly

Especially, don't come bursting out of the door with a firearm in your hand. That's just plain stupid.

Oh look, another sovereign citizen

@@TheWholeGrainBread_Real So it would appear.

@@TheWholeGrainBread_Real Exercising your 5th and 4th Amendment Rights does not mean you are a sovereign citizen.

My neighbor uses a lot of delivery services. They show up at my door frequently. If the dead man would have checked his ring doorbell, he would have seen it was the police… I can understand all of the police announcements and I am hard of hearing.

Man, this has to be the dumbest comment I’ve ever seen on KZfaq. I guess nurses, doctors, firefighters, paramedics, security guards etc are hookers and criminals 🤦🏽‍♂️

Yes, that if he comes to the door, he has an unobstructed way to get to the suspect without a screen door in the way.

Yeah. He was planning on knocking on the door until someone answered it.

Lock both doors!!

We can tell that you are not very bright

Opening a screen door to knock on the main door does not reach the same level as entering the house without permission. All he did was open a storm door to knock on the main door. If you don't want your screen door opened by anyone else, keep it locked. Otherwise, people are going to pull it open to knock on the door. Deal with it.

You are wrong, it was the front door. And have you ever tried to knock on a screen door? No, you open the screen and knock on the wooden door. It's funny how hyper critical you can be of somebody without having any knowledge of the situation.

Lol reading your statement tells me all I need to know about you criminal. I guess your way of remedial thinking is what got you in prison in the first place. Betcha you never answer the door with a gun pointed at the police. Stupid people suck.

This is crazy how this person typed a whole story assuming the wrong thing not using common sense.

Most houses today have the garage in the front of the house.

You not smart

Bro's scared of the police like they gonna do something to you 😂 The only thing that happens in this kind of situation is you trying to screw yourself over, like this guy did.

I'm sorry the man died. I'm sorry that cops believe everybody is out to get them. I'm sorry that this is now a them against us war on the streets. I'm sorry that today's cops walk around like a bunch of GI Joe's. I'm sorry about a lot of things.

Here's an idea, don't open the door pointing a gun at someone

@@nickmcdonald8674 im scared

You can’t preemptively point your gun at a cop because we as a society have said that’s retarded and you deserve to die if you do it. If you don’t like it, make your own society. See how long it lasts with civilians “preemptively” pointing guns at cops all night long. I swear some ppl have literally 0 critical thinking skills.

You 100% can point a gun preemptively but the person at the door will point a gun back at you if they are armed. The home owner handled the situation very poorly, if those were armed intruders it would have ended exactly the same way.

"if cops are able to preemptively point guns at citizens why can’t reverse happen? " Because cops are uniformed officers of the law and we GIVE them that authority. It's against the law for a private person to point a gun at someone unless there is a threat.

@@rael5469- I almost liked your comment until I realized it was actually in opposition to me. Lol. I do understand the cops have that authority, but that’s why I made this comment toward those who constantly defend Police. Even though I think police are very often inappropriately criticized, I also think cops need to have a little bit of empathy for all the people they point guns at. That’s basically what I was getting too. When I got this pointed at you it doesn’t feel good even if it is somebody who is a cop. Cops have done wrong and accidentally shot people, and cops have outright murdered people on purpose, etc. So anybody who is a big defender of Police needs to have some empathy and realize that cops shouldn’t unnecessarily point guns at people. _Edit 8/24/23: made a small voice dictation typo correction._

@@iMatti00 Matt I never said cops have carte blanche. I merely state that in this case and similar ones they have the authority to be armed......and to defend themselves as in this case. I can think of the Philando Castile case where an officer was too quick to shoot. "After five days of deliberation, he (Officer Yanez) was acquitted of all charges in a jury trial on June 16, 2017. After the verdict, Yanez was immediately fired by the City of Saint Anthony. Wrongful death lawsuits against the City brought by Reynolds and Castile's family were settled for a total of $3.8 million. " Wikipedia The jury in Yanez criminal trial got it wrong. His employers got it right by firing him.