Perhaps next time, this guy won't be so quick to report such an incident, because he knows the police are going to overreact.

This guy will now spend the rest of his life, thinking that his call resulted in an innocent man's death, through no real fault of his own.

for fear the cops will only make matter worse.

Like when they're called when someone is suicidal and the police come over and kill them.

Or whenever someone has a stroke or some other incapacitating episode and the police treat them as they would a drunk driver.

oh he's so full of regret. I don't believe him and never will. All these type 'anonymous' or otherwise callers know what they are doing....every fucking time....

... and who wouldn’t call the cops if you had the windows of your truck broken out and saw a guy running from the scene? If for no other reason, his insurance would have likely required a police report before covering the damage.

Blaming the guy who reasonably called 911 for the conduct of the cops who responded is irrational.

in any rational, falls on deaf ears here. Have a good one....too much racial hate has poisoned the water here in ameriKKKa, always has and with a trumpPOS posing as a potus having stirred the american 'melting pot' after poring in LARGE amounts of hate, NOTHING is to be trusted as benign motivation for shooting an unarmed human being based on a phone call, jaywalking, selling cigarettes on the street, being deemed the wrong color in a 'gated community', 11 year old plaing in a park with toy gun, shot down within 2 seconds of police arriving, an unarmed AA looking for a toy for his kids shot down in Walmart because of a phone call by a white person and so many others. Too many of these to be just coincidence. Entitlement and privilege colors ones outlook, I know for sure. So does living with active and vicious racism of both the institutional and systemic variety as experienced by all not white.

Believe what you must. I will according to actions and motivations of racists in this country from the past and the present that I have experienced just because I have brown skin, must read about and experience on social media, constantly, consistently and continuously.

... you said. 100%. Except for the part about blaming the guy who had his car broken into and called the cops.

He had no way of knowing the cops would show up guns blazing. Even if he considered that a possibility, what would you have him do? He was the victim of a crime, and he called the cops to report it. As far as I have read, he didn’t give any false information. He didn’t claim the guy was armed and dangerous. He did nothing to provoke the cops’ overreaction.

Race conflict is a huge problem in the US, and it’s worsening because of the asshole in the Oval Office. The examples you cite of police and others committing murder against POC are a growing stain on our society - and our failure to address it is incomprehensible to me. But we do the issues a disservice when we lash out at someone who really did nothing wrong, and who now has to live with the senseless loss of life THE COPS brought about in responding to his otherwise reasonable 911 call.

Blame the cops. Blame institutional racism. Blame Trump. That’s all legit. I just don’t think the 911 caller shares any blame here.

So if heard someone smashing out you car window you would do nothing??

This man is blameless.