“Put yourself in his shoes. Do you want someone to say of you “well, the police said they were engaged in a pot bust/child porn bust/porn ring bust, therefore, that Persevero guy *must* have been guilty and put all minors and pets at his residence in harm’s way”?”
If I am indeed growing pot, I must bear some of the responsibility of a minor or a pet of mine who gets hurt or killed in a drug raid or a drug war. I know perfectly well it is an environment which invites violence. I should not have vulnerable children or animals in that mix.
If I were doing porn, I don’t think they get to do the no knock searches, so the point is moot, but if I had kids around that I think I should lose custody anyway. I would not worry about pets in that case. Porn would not harm pets, and there’s not a “porn war” going on among dealers and users all fighting for their porn or their piece of the action.
There was a time when there was no “drug war” in America either. All it took was a few government employees to realize how lucrative “fighting” a “drug war” for the government would be.
But you understand the point: you, a presumably-law-abiding citizen can be made as much a victim of government employees defying the Constitution as this man was.