Well according to the article, the police reports states the man refused to hand over ID initially. If that's true, the cop wouldn't have known who was in the house, and therefore it could have been the bad guy that was apparently breaking into the house, no?
So what happens if the house really was getting broken into, but the cop left without investigating and something worse happened? Of course that is hypothetical because we know in this case that is impossible. But if you take the police at their word, they didn't know who this guy was, and he refused to show ID at first. It was only later that he began to cause a disturbance, and was subsequently arrested for it.
You say peacefully residing in his own house. Well, again, if we go by the police report, he wasn't exactly simply residing peacefully.
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