This is fantastic news.
The only way to end Police abuse is to remove all obstructions to personal responsibility from Police Officers.
This particular LEO paid with his life for his decisions, and the shooter was NOT held responsible for the violence caused by the LEO’s actions.
So a good day in America. LE cannot be allowed to be the cause of violence and chaos. This Officer, this supervisor who designed the raid paid with his life. If the lesson to LE in general is to do No Knock raids by backing an armored vehicle through the living room wall then we are going backwards. If LE just escalates tactics then no progress has been made.
However the court ruling seems to put limits on what is tolerated from LE. I hope that it is the case, and not just a concurrent escalation of tactics.
There is a simple tactic that each state could enact and change this problem.
Mandate that a country or district judge must accompany the officers to the home or business, and be present as the search warrant is used. The judge must stay at the home until all officers have cleared the area, or the warrant to search would be nullified.
At that point, it’d put intense pressure on county and state judges, and you’d see a significant drop in search operations.
Then I’d turn around and look at the federal guys, and make a state law that says no federal warrant can be enforced after sun-down, and each state home searched must have a $100,000 bond signed by the federal officer/agency for damages and harm caused to the family.