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Well, at least they didn’t do it based on a tip from another felon and they did find some drugs. Like that was worth killing someone over...
This was totally stupid. If nobody was in danger, and the suspect didn’t have a record of violence, why not serve the warrant with a polite knock on the door and a “We have a warrant, sir, may we come in?”
Why didn’t they simply knock on the door, then when he answered, show him the warrant and search the house? This is insanity. I hope his family is lawyering up.
“Trace amounts of a green leafy substance”? What’s the problem? Let the bombing begin immediately.
But seriously, for all you LE types, why do we never hear of an officer questioning the no knock paramilitary-type raids? As in, ‘gee Sarge, maybe we should do something different than a night-RAID?’
Next thing you know they’ll be doing the same thing to cigarette smokers.
Jack Boot justice...get used to it, because you’ll be seeing more.
My libertarian streak comes out on this one. Legalize marjuana. No one should ever be killed over a weed.
It is becoming so common that people are no longer outraged by it, like a brutal crime you'll see on the news where you're just glad it happened to someone else. Just another day in America.
I agree, this was stupid. It reminds me of a few years ago when the local sheriff used the “task force” to raid a local strip joint. The guys on the force got out of their van and wondered what they were doing there as a lot of them frequented the place.
I thought no one got in trouble for marijuana anymore?
I’m co-opting my own signature tagline, which I’ve reserved (until now) for pitbull attacks:
“I’ve been told, repeatedly, that attacks like this are rare.”
Another victim of the insane and unproductive WO(S)D.
As I read it, Capone’s employees were all dressed up as cops for the St. Valentine’s day massacre. Moran’s people would have had no way to distinguish them from cops doing a “no-knock” raid.
I dont know, is it really what the 46 year old Father wanted?
Then why was he engaged in criminal activity.
"Authority does not bare the sword in vain".
All stupid people; wake up.
the irony is that these jackboots are addicted to adrenaline.
Did they shoot the dog? Raid’s not complete until they shoot the dog. Raiding a couple neighbor’s houses by mistake before the real raid is also SOP.
An ounce-and-a-half is *not* a dealer.
Long past time to end the no-knock in the WOD.
Same suggestion was made regarding Waco, Texas' David Koresh.