Just after midnight and the SWAT team tosses a "flash-bang" grenade into a house. An informant has told them a murder suspect was inside. What they found was a sleeping family awakened and disoriented by the explosion, and during the melee an officer shot 7 year-olf Aiyana Mo'nay Stanley-Jones in the head.
The whole story was captured by A&E's film crew shooting a "reality" show. Insane? You bet!
The whole thing should never have happened. I contend that without the TV crew it wouldn't have happened and here's why. From having done documentaries, I can attest that people in the presence of a camera act differently. They may put on a false bravado, they may try to seem "intense" , they often adopt the persona of a fictional character in an attempt to look good on camera. All in all what you get is always to an extent "unreal".
Add to that the whole police macho thing and it's a recipe for disaster and that is exactly what happened. A bad tip, a trigger happy cop, a botched raid and needless drama most likely done for TV and you get a dead child. Great TV? Not on my schedule.
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