Why would she not plead her case behind her locked door? Pass her ID under the door first, explain the situation, and THEN come out?

It seems a lot of the situation could have been avoided. I don't think they were going to shoot her through the door for a burglary.

The events after were pretty disappointing: officers not giving their names, the rude neighbor, etc. But race really seems to play a minimal role in this story and it's frustrating that she's trying to spin it as some sort of racial/police militarization issue rather than what it is: an ignorant (and potentially racist) neighbor who got her in a mess.