One of the method is the compartmentalizing of the sale.
The distributors only keep a minimal amount at the actual point of sale, a secondary person couriers to point of sale when the supply runs low.
It is no different than a dealers standing on the street one holding the cash, the other holding the supply.
I STRONGLY suspect the family knew full well what is going on and the "outrage" is to foist a police brutality lawsuit.
What you say may be true, but we don't know that. We've also heard that the guy worked two jobs, which is not usual for a dedicated pot dealer. It also doesn't make sense to me that this guy, if he knew that it was the cops coming in, would go for a handgun over a couple of ounces of pot - what good could come of it for him? Adding a couple attempted murder, resisting arrest, etc charges to whatever posession of a couple of oz of pot was going to cost him.
I still believe that no-knock raids like this are overly dangerous to all involved when the only crime involved is drug dealing. Civilians, sometimes innocent, and cops are getting killed just to prevent someone from flushing a bit of some substance down the toilet before the cops can get in.
So you think that 2 oz of MJ deserves the death penalty by cops by being shot ten times?