Mr. Chamberlain was going about his day like any other day.  He did not know that he had accidentaly pushed his life alert button.  He was as this home in White Plains, N.Y. going about his day, when his day totally was turned up side down and ended up to be his last.  The West Plains Police responded to what they thought was a medical emergency call.  When Mr. Chamberlain responded that he was fine and did not know what or why they were there is when it turned bad.  The Police reportedly said that Mr. Chamberlain had a  hatchet when he opened the door and repeatedly told them that he had been in the Marines.

" THE POLICE who arrived at the door of Chamberlain's apartment in a White Plains housing project at 5 a.m. weren't responding to reports of a crime in progress, but a possible medical problem. Chamberlain, who suffered from heart disease, wore a life alert pendant that he apparently set off the pendant in his sleep. When the medical monitoring company failed to get a response from him immediately, they notified police of a possible medical emergency.
A device in Chamberlain's home that the pendant transmitted to recorded what followed. The family was permitted to listen to the recordings, which is why we know that the police description of subsequent events were a lie.
When police arrived at his home, Chamberlain told them through a closed door that he was fine. The monitoring company also called police to tell them this was a false alarm, and to request that the call be cancelled. The police dispatcher responded, "We're not cancelling anything."
Police at the scene continued to demand entry, and refused to allow Chamberlain's niece, who lived upstairs in the same building, to speak to her uncle. According to the family, when Chamberlain said he was fine, an officer responded, "We don't give a f*%#@." An officer is heard referring to Chamberlain as "n*@!$r" and making a mocking reference to his Marine service."

This is a very sad story.  Here was a man that was probably mordified that the police were "coming" in to his home even when he had said that he was fine and had no idea why they were there.