Mainly that the cops announced themselves repeatedly. Doesn’t reconcile the fact that the warrant should never have been issued in the first place.
Says who, the cops?
“Mainly that the cops announced themselves repeatedly. Doesn’t reconcile the fact that the warrant should never have been issued in the first place.”
Sorry, but events don’t match that claim. And that is just the cop’s claim. First, a lot of these “We identified” events occurred far too fast to allow reaction time. That is the whole point of a raid. “Police! BANG BANG BANG” all inside a second.
Second, this guy was clean as a whistle. We’re talking sitcom life here. As one person pointed out,
What? You think this totally innocent guy suddenly decided to end it all in a blaze of glory, with his family backstopping police rounds, all for nothing?
He had no clue this was cops. That is the only sensible conclusion. And cops have been caught lying about having identified themselves before. A lot of them make it clear that they want to maintain ‘tactical surprise’, so don’t ID themselves. This is the result of that mentality. Confusion and innocent people killed. They wanted him confused and shocked, and they succeeded.