Stop me if you've heard this story before:

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2. Cops are paranoid sometimes.

And it's not always unjustified.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/07/09/gentle-georgia-man-accused-of-ambushing-police-officer-following-fake-911-call/

When police in Valdosta, Ga., received a report for a car break-in at a local apartment complex around 8 a.m. Friday, they thought it was a routine call.
But as soon as Officer Randall Hancock stepped out of his patrol car, police said, someone started shooting at him.
At least two bullets struck Hancock in his protective vest, but a third struck him underneath it, “in the abdomen area,” according to a statement from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
“Officer Hancock returned fire, striking the individual and stopping him from firing at him,” the statement said. “The individual was unknown to Officer Hancock at the time of the encounter.”
Investigators would later determine that the man behind the trigger was the same man who called 911 to report the break-in.

I'm NOT excusing the police in this case, especially without more information or body camera video, but why call the police and then openly have a gun in your hand? I'm white and I'd half-expect to get shot by cops around here if I did that. I could legally carry my loaded rifles here in Ohio, but you'll never see me do it unless I desire suicide by cops.