In before some Pro-Dopers try and make these abuses about the “War on Drugs” instead of just plain old government arrogance and overreach.
Police State thuggery.
Cases in which no-knock warrants are appropriate are extremely rare, if they exist at all. The vast majority of such searches are dangerously unconstitutional and unnecessarily hazardous to police and to private citizens.
“No, Sheriff of Habersham County. YOU and your asset forfeiture-hungry LEOs caused that “bad thing to happen.”
Well the article has some salient points about the proposed new legislation and I am going to contact my state rep about it.
But: We need to stick to the truth here. The truth is that the 6 SWAT guys who no knocked that house in Habersham county did not work for the Habersham County Sheriff. They had been co-opted before the new sheriff took over by the County DA and were working directly for him under a federally funded district drug interdiction task force comprised of several counties. The Habersham County sheriff did not even know the raid was going to happen. He got scapegoated for it though.
Since the raid and subsequent chitstorm the drug interdiction task force has been disbanded, the DA is under investigation and I have heard that the cop who threw the flash grenade left for parts unknown and the other five have been merged back into the the sheriff’s dept.