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It is a long, drawn out process that usually comes after weeks or even months of negotiations, warnings, and even court proceedings. No landlord gets up in the morning, says to themself, I think I'll evict somebody today," and goes ahead and does it. It just doesn't work like that.

I'm sure getting evicted sucks, a hell of a lot, and I'm sorry to see it happen to anyone, but this guy would have been aware that this was was going to happen well in advance of the police showing up at his door with an eviction notice. His reaction was inexcusable, imo. Shooting someone in cold blood just because they brought you unwelcome news (that you knew was coming), is never okay, imo.

I would hope that even those who hate cops on principle are able to see that every situation where a cop confronts an armed civilian is different, and the cop is not ALWAYS at fault. Especially when he's the one who gets shot and killed.

This particular civilian was endangering the lives of everyone in the vicinity, not just the cops themselves. In a residential neighborhood, that means young people, old people, families, little kids, you name it. In a situation like that, LE's first priority is going to be to eliminate that danger, ideally before anyone else is harmed. If that means killing an active shooter who continues to endanger the lives of others, despite repeated orders to stop, by any means available, that's what they're going to do, and I'm not going to fault them for it.