“The last thing you want is law enforcement to injure someone innocent,”
That’s not a true statement from the Sheriff. If the “last” thing you want is to injure somebody innocent your policy would not include no-knock raids unless imminent danger to an innocent was evident.
A truer statement from the Sheriff would be something like this:
“While we don’t want to hurt innocent people while conducting our business, we feel the occasional death or injury of the innocent is acceptable collateral damage while we do what we do.”
” “The last thing you want is law
enforcement to injure someone innocent,””
Flat out lie. Nothing but soothing words. If it were true, they would have taken the risks upon themselves, and flash bangs wouldn’t be in the armory.
What people are forgetting is this isn’t just about a harmed child. Anyone and anything could have been burned by this. It is no more acceptable if this had been a 30yo man or woman. It is just more sensational. This probably happens far more frequently than we know. We only hear about this one because of the baby.
This device is not safe in a civilian world.