I guess I’m an aberation around here. I don’t like drug dealers.
The wrong party was smoking pot, not dealing it. Regardless, I’ll share a story from my old days living in NH - about 20 years ago.
Buddy of mine lived a few doors down from me in a duplex townhouse. He and his wife were stripping their floors and using chemicals.
Four town cops came to their next-door neighbor to conduct a warranted search for stolen goods. Turned out the guy next door was a neighborhood burglar.
Well, they smelled the chemicals as they were preparing to knock on the neighbor’s door and thought that perhaps they had the wrong address -why, I have no idea. So they knock on my buddy’s door, but didn’t say anything.
Now, my buddy and his wife had stripped from the front door, so they had to move drop cloths and ladders to get to the door. The cops heard them moving things around and broke down the door. They botched it and hit it once and it didn’t break. My buddy drew his .45 thinking it was crooks. His wife grabbed their shotgun and fed a round.
The first cop through the door got a slug in his chest, luckily missing the heart. The second cop almost got his head blown off with the shotgun but luckily the wife had good reflexes and didn’t fire. The first cop lived - barely.
The shooting was ruled justified. All four cops were suspended without pay. The senior officer was fired.
I don’t care what you smell or what you hear. That warrant better have the right address and you’d better ONLY break down doors at the address for which you have a warrant - or you could get dead - cop or no cop.
The police are not a protected class of citizens. They need rules just like anyone else for their own protection as well as that of civilians.