[VRWCmember]

Reading about innocent people like that lady in Atlanta killed in no-knock raids by incompetent cops really pisses me off. And why do they shoot people’s dogs so often?

And the subject of no-knock raids is tangentially related to the issue of a bank robbery with hostages how?

[r9etb]

And the subject of no-knock raids is tangentially related to the issue of a bank robbery with hostages how?

Because the police would not have knocked, if they'd had to raid the bank. See? It's all very logical.

[coloradan]

Tangentially, because in my opinion the only time the police are justified in using military tactics, e.g. “raids” is when innocent lives are imminently at stake. Yes for a hostage situation in a bank, no for the possibility that a bag of white powder is in a certain residence. The military is for killing people and breaking things. The bag isn’t worth killing people over; preventing more people from being killed is.