That’s not the type of scenario that people have in mind when they’re talking about the systemic failure of qualified immunity — in a functional court system, such a case would shake out naturally (either a non-punishable offense or involuntary manslaughter, depending on context, as after all, an innocent person was killed), while still allowing crimes such as manufacturing evidence or reckless negligence or murder to go punished.

As it is, a citizen cannot normally charge a cop with a crime, so all legal recourse against the police must go through a civil court in practice, where the doctrine of qualified immunity acts as a shield

The government cannot act, it has no mass. Only human beings can act.

The person who pulls the trigger is the one who is the killer. The local government has no hands with which to operate a firearm's trigger.

Please be very careful not to misattribute or diffuse the responsibility for unnecessary violence carried out by violent, criminal cops.

If gun possession is legal, then it should not be ok to kill an innocent person just because they possess a gun.

Yes state is guilty too. But, seriously, you accept that death of innocent person in a raid is normal result of normal police behavior? Even if there is reason for no-knock raid, cops dont have to kill everything that moves.

It is a normal result to fear for your life when armed men storm your residence in the middle of the night.

If you are armed, it is a normal result to protect your home with force from such an invasion.

If the arrestee responds with armed force, it is a normal result that the police will do so as well.

If they do, it is certainly a foreseeable result that someone will end up dead.

By ordering a no-knock raid in the middle of the night, the mayor and police chief set up a situation where the arrestee's right of self-defense and the police officers' rights of self-defense are on a collision course.