There is too much of this kind of stuff going on:

A Minneapolis police SWAT team kicked in the wrong door yesterday during an early morning raid, prompting the man of the house to grab his gun and open fire on the officers who entered the house.

"He took out his shotgun and he said if they are bad guys I'll shoot, I'll scare them away," Dao Khang, the brother of the homeowner, Vang Khang, tells the Star Tribune. "He fired first, he told me it was two shots."

Dao Khang says his brother was trying to protect his wife and six children. No one from the family was hit during the exchange of gunfire. Vang hit two officers, but the Pioneer Press says they were protected by ballistic vests and helmets.

"I must've heard over 20 or 30 shots, I swear, it was scary," Ruth Hayes, the family's next-door neighbor, tells WCCO-TV. "It was like 30 SWAT guys out here ... it was crazy it was just like havoc."

KARE-TV reports that Vang was detained at the scene and released a few hours later. Police say there may have been a "language barrier" between the residents and the officers.

How many incidents like this will it take before people realize that militarization of the police is going down the wrong road? Police once knew the neighborhoods they patrolled, and neighbors knew them. Increasingly, they're an armed hostile force (that is, when they're not spending their time as revenue agents). These raids are conducted without warning in a manner more appropriate to combat, and even innocent family dogs are being shot. The way the cops think they have the right to treat anything that moves as an enemy reminds me more of war than police work.

Hmmmm.... Maybe it's no accident that when they act this way, they claim to be "fighting" the "Drug War."

What bothers me the most is that I fully expect to see such tactics being used as another justification for gun control.