Not good enough reasons to justify. They've used no-knocks on normal everyday citizens just because they can. Same excuse for shooting the small terrier. Their life is on the line every time they don the uniform. Put a trap in the sewer line for drugs. Knock and stand to one side. Busting down doors in the middle of the night is not cool.
Do you have any family members in law enforcement? You'd be dooming them to death by absolutely outlawing no knock warrants just to give Obama's sons an edge.
As for "middle of the night." I don't know if that's true. In Texas, warrants are not executed at night. And I have never seen a night time raid on body cams despite viewing a large number of them.
> Busting down doors in the middle of the night is not cool. <
To which I’d add: Busting down doors in the middle of the day is also not cool.
Maybe there are others. But I can think of only one reason why it would be cool to bust down a door: It’s a hostage situation, and the bad guys have made a credible threat to kill a hostage.
Otherwise, wait ‘em out. Or grab them up when they go out for a Big Mac. Or fire a tear gas round through the window. But don’t be crashing through doors unless you really, really have to.
Yeah, they should have shown up with the force the feds had for Roger Stone.
Just before the announcement today, the state NG should have a flight of strike eagles flying over the city.