“If these clowns want to play at being a special operator, then they can join the armed forces spec-ops group of their choice.”
EXACTLY. I’d rather be arrested by Marines than the local SWAT, I know I’d have a better chance of making it out alive.
I still say SWAT teams need to be held to a UCMJ standard.
And the reason why you (and I, and perhaps many other people who have seen the results of investigations into wrongdoing by both police departments and the USMC) think this way is this:
When someone screws up in the USMC, the USMC doesn’t let it slide. They come down like a ton of bricks on cowboys and screw-ups. You bring dishonor upon the Corps, the Corps does not ignore it.
Most all of the investigations into wrongdoing in these wrong-address/wrong-person raids by cops result in “nothing improper found.” If the USMC executed the same sort of raid, at the very least, the lowest-level officers in charge of the team would be catching some major heat, possibly even discharge from the USMC.