I’m not defending no knock; but, all of you ARE defending a marine you refuse to evaluate.
I don’t care if the ex-marine WAS a crook. He had not done anything that would get him a death penalty, and he still deserved to be, at worst (and IF they found evidence), arrested.
The SWAT team acted like idiots, bunching up at the door where they could easily have been killed. They broke it down before someone could have made their way from the bedroom to the front door, and then shot a guy because he had a weapon.
The ex-marine had previous encounters with the cops. He wasn’t an angel. But he also could have been given a search warrant without knocking his door down, or a group of armed men crowding his door. Based on his previous actions, a single cop in blue could have waited for an answer to the knock, and handed him the search warrant.
Since he had shown no aggression when stopped with marijuana in the car, do you really think he would have tried to kill a cop while his wife and son were nearby? For a search warrant that turned up a single handgun and a Border Patrol cap?