Isaac Singletary's Killers Won't Be Charged

You're not going to drop your weapon if you believe you need it for self-defence. The police in this case gave Singletary every reason to believe they were criminals. They were posing as criminals for the purpose of the investigation, and this just goes to show that they were convincing.

If they did fail to identify themselves as police, then they shouldn't reasonably have expected him to drop his weapon. If a police officer tells you that, you do it. If anyone else tells you that, on your own property... you have no reason at all to listen.

The police officers are entirely responsible for what happened here. There's no grey area at all. They were on this man's property, while giving a convincing impression of criminal activity. They apparently failed to identify themselves as officers of the law, so how did they expect him to respond? Why did they need to be on his property to begin with?

The story about Sgt. Hale is absolutely terrifying, is there any chance at all there could be more to this story than we know? If it's true as told in the above two posts, then to be blunt I would be more afraid of the cops than of any criminal, if I lived in America.

Jam it back in, in the dark.