[Wonder Warthog]

"There has to be some excuse for wearing masks, I want to know what it is... "

I think the excuse used was that these were undercover plainclothes guys. Having their faces show up in the newspaper or being seen by drug dealers would end their undercover usefulness. Note---I do NOT agree with the preceding. "Dynamic entry" raids are simply unacceptable for any reason other than an active hostage situation.

[dmz]

I think the excuse used was that these were undercover plainclothes guys.
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So these guys were both undercover plainclothes and members of their “dynamic entry” team? Does that sound right to any of the LEOs on the forum? Are there not completely different skillsets involved?

[Nowhere Man]

I think the excuse used was that these were undercover plainclothes guys. Having their faces show up in the newspaper or being seen by drug dealers would end their undercover usefulness. Note---I do NOT agree with the preceding. "Dynamic entry" raids are simply unacceptable for any reason other than an active hostage situation.

Reminds me of an old "Picket Fences" episode where the Sherriff, Tom Skerritt, served on a jury. It was where a drug dealer gunned down a cop with an Uzi in a no knock drug raid. IIRC, Skerritt himself was one of the ones who argued that the drug dealer had the right to self defense since he didn't know who was breaking in because the cops did not announce who they are before entering so it could have been just "any Tom, Dick or Harry." Maybe that's a little over the top but on the other hand, I do understand the logic, even though the guy was a criminal, we don't want a slippery slope either. I don't believe in no knock or dynamic entry raids either, except for a hostage situation either.