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Originally Posted by freebeard
Why did they knock [twice] if they had a no-knock warrant? More people would be alive had they not.
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A better question is why they went in the middle of the night rather than just knock during the day, or make an arrest at other known places?
If police have to resort to 3am raids to get a single person, they are a pretty low information outfit.
Nobody cares if someone claims to be the police at 3am as they break down a door and raid the bedroom; you're forcing a violent response regardless of anything.
Was Ruby Ridge and Waco not enough information regarding these tactics to inform us there are better ways?
Anyhow, I don't understand how relatively inconsequential anecdotes get elevated in the media such that we're all wasting our time talking about stuff that practically doesn't matter for us... except when leveraged for political purposes to gin up outrage and division. Shame on media for prostituting themselves when being in the news business should mean having integrity, and shame on us for paying them any attention.