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I find it very telling about the state of policing in the US when the law enforcement community knows they have the world's eyes on them, and they have the audacity to put that someone who was killed had 0 injuries. It doesn't help that the cops had the wrong address, and the person they were looking for was already in custody.

>>x86_64+(OP)
Or the fact that they were serving a no-knock warrant. The only reason for a no-knock warrant is to prevent destruction of evidence, which means, practically, flushing drugs down the toilet. Well, if this kind of situation is the result of no-knock raids in society, I'm fine with missing some convictions because drugs got flushed. No-knock raids shouldn't exist. Neither should the "war on drugs."

In this case, they were supposedly looking for a person. They would have surrounded the place. It's not like he could have vanished into thin air between the time they knocked and then had to force their way in. No-knock raids should never be used for arrest warrants anyway! It's insane to think that supposedly responsible, intelligent representatives in our government have led us to the legal situation under which this occurred in the first place.

>>TheRea+XJ
It wasn't a no knock warrant, though. They said they announced themselves. They obviously lied, but this lie exposed the truth that the raid was their own initiative for their own reasons. The lame warrant story is likely meant to hide the more nefarious truth that there are rogue cops roaming around and raiding random apartments as they see fit. Basically, police no longer needs to consult with courts.