In his November 8 press conference, Chief Dustman admitted that a mental-health responder was on-site, but that they didn’t have an opportunity to “de-escalate” the situation. Far from “de-escalating,” video obtained by the
Kansas City Defender shows multiple police racing up the stairs of the apartment complex, guns already drawn before they even reach the door.
Police were apparently in such a rush to kill that they broke into the wrong apartment and held Bug Arnold, a resident of Oval Spring Apartments, at gunpoint. Arnold told the
Defender that he witnessed police, “From the moment they jumped out of their cars, it was as if they were ready to kill.” Arnold explained to the
Defender that after the police opened his door they had their guns trained on him “the entire time.”
“I wasn’t sure what to do. I was just frantically, like waving my arms, like, Oh my God! No! No! You have the wrong house!” he recalled. Arnold said police accused him of “doing something to their officer, like ‘Where’s my officer! What’d you do with my officer!’ I said, ‘I don’t know where your officer is, sir. I assume he’s in the other apartment, because you have the wrong apartment.”
