“””does growing marijuana in your basement rise to the level of requiring an attack with assault rifles?””””
Yes. Drug dealers are usually armed. If you bust down a drug dealer’s door, you gonna get shot.
If you were a cop... and your mission was to serve a warrant on a suspected drug dealer’s residence, would you want to go in unarmed? If I were to go raid a drug dealer’s house, you better believe I am going to be protecting myself.
Again, yes, I understand that drug dealers are usually armed - but there are also other signs when someone is dealing drugs. Lots of traffic to/from the residence; people don’t stay long. If the account is accurate, doesn’t sound like that kind of activity was in evidence here. I just think a SWAT type raid on that little evidence is unacceptable.
“If I were to go raid a drug dealer’s house,”
How about if you go raid a non-dealer’s house?