Third, she had previous dealings with police. She should have known how to conduct herself with police. She should have known that police have one main goal when they come to work. That goal is to go home alive. The worst possible thing anyone can do with an officer is make the officer feel scared.
Trigger fingers tend to get mighty itchy when officers are scared.
She should have instantly obeyed the officers' commands to put down whatever was in her hands and to do whatever else they ordered her to do. I do question the use of this paramilitary tactic that the police employed, especially with children in the house. I also wonder about racial profiling and its role in this situation. But most of all I am skeptical about the attack on low-level dealers like Annette. We all pretty much know that drugs come into this country mostly by way of government officials and big, big-time dealers who have carte blanche with the powers that be.