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"I do not approve no-knock warrants under any circumstance."

Well, these were local police, enforcing a state law, using state approved tactics. You don't live in Ohio.

So you'll have to excuse me, but what concern is this of yours? Aren't you a believer in federalism? In reserving power to the states -- so-called "state's rights"?

Or are you a one-size-fits-all, centralized government type and screw the 10th amendment?

So you'll have to excuse me, but what concern is this of yours? Aren't you a believer in federalism? In reserving power to the states -- so-called "state's rights"?

Pretty strange statement from someone who thinks Federal Drug laws trump state laws and that legislatures that passed medical marijuana laws should be tried and hung for sedition or treason (I forgot which).

Or are you a one-size-fits-all, centralized government type and screw the 10th amendment?

The 10th Amendment was pretty much destroyed by the aftermath of the Civil War, so it's a point of contention that never seems to get resolved. I generally believe whichever law gives us the most protection from government is the way we should go. Government, because it is a concentration of power, and power always corrupts, is always evil, so the less there is the better off we all are.

"I do not approve no-knock warrants under any circumstance."

Well, these were local police, enforcing a state law, using state approved tactics. You don't live in Ohio.

All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void.

--United States Supreme Court decision, Marbury vs. Madison,
5 US (2 Cranch) 137, 174, 176

This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.

If the local police perjured their oaths to the Constitution, they're just felons, no better than any other crooked cops on the payrool of drug gangs. And the relevant federal law provides for an appropriate penalty for their criminal conduct:

United States Code,
Title 18,US Criminal Code
Part I, Chapter 13, §ection 242:
Deprivation of rights under color of law

Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both;

and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both;

and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

Nothing to see here folks, just a crook with a badge hanging from a lamppost. Move along....