What we have here, which is undisputed, is that Maye picked up a gun and shot at someone he didn't take the time to identify.  

Prosecutors say these raids are volatile and dangerous, so they defer to the officers' judgment.  So why is it that trained officers who have the advantage of being the aggressors in these raids are allowed mistakes in judgments, but they people whose homes they're invading, whom they're waking up in the middle of the night, whom they're deliberately taking by surprise--don't get the same deference?

Last year a North Carolina cop mistook the sound of a battering ram for a gun, and wrongly shot through the door of a home they were raiding, killing Peyton Strickland, an unarmed college student.  He wasn't charged.  Meanwhile, they're trying to press murder charges against Ryan Frederick in Chesapeake, Virginia for mistaking raiding officers for criminals, and shooting through the door and killing Det. Jarrod Shivers as they were trying to take down Frederick's door.  Frederick had no criminal record, and a misdemeanor amount of pot in his house.

Why is it, Patrick, that cops can make mistakes that kill civilians with no charges, but civilians who are awoken to the terror of armed men barging into their homes who understandably mistake them for criminals get the book thrown at them?

And why is it "different" when someone kills a cop?  Are cops' lives worth more than regular people's lives?