I an attempt to be unbiased, I want to lay some small percentage of responsibility on the victim for having something in his hand that could be mistaken for a gun. However, thinking about it, I would be more inclined to do so if this had happened in the middle of the day. Instead, as usual, the cops showed up at zero dark thirty as part of disorienting their target to give themselves an advantage.
Then I think about what I would likely do for the same disturbance at zero dark thirty. As I get older, I don't wake up as alert as I used to to a bump in the night. I could easily see myself being somewhat discombobulated by cops who are in fact TRYING to discombobulate me so that they can "get home safe at the end of the shift".
As I've said a million times before, I have no problem with some of my tax dollars going to a couple of boxes of donuts so that uniformed (in other than battle rattle) cops can show up at a place and get on the bullhorn and wait things out to ensure the person they're after has a chance to calm down (or just fully wake up, or hey, just do it during daylight) and that they in fact have the right address.