officers were following policy by shooting an armed person which under review or even under potential trial is something they would claim. the question is why police single-handedly created the deadly situation, whether this operation should have been launched at all, when it killed a person and increases the risk to other bystanders and the officers themselves. reporting shows the police announced themselves later than they claimed in the first police report, which suggests perhaps the awareness of culpability. police chief has admitted that locke, now dead, was not a suspect or even named in the no-knock warrant. mr. locke was not named in the original search warrant. so at this point it is unclear if or how he s connected to st. paul s investigation. that is a very dry way of admitting a very damning fact. the person they showed up and killed within ten seconds isn t,