They appear to have tried ‘least force’ back in January.
As I’ve said elsewhere, if this was such an egregious use of force, the man can sue and let it all come out in court.
But it looks like he’s too busy sucking up online views, taking in Go Fund Me donations, etc.
The irreversible act is the two innocent pets are DEAD. Killed directly by goverment agents.
Typical over the top actions by goverment enforcers.
In principle like the WaCo masacre which was justified by failure to collect $200 firearm tax.
Were it in my power the entire team and the administrator(supervisor) who authorized the raid would be fired and barred from future government employment.