I'll reserve final determination until we find out what the cops were wearing, what kind of warrant, and how they announced themselves.
...or if it was the correct house.
Agreed. There are many stories in the news about home invasions, and how they usually go very bad for a defenseless homeowner. If I am awakened from my sleep in the middle of the night by someone breaking down my door, I am going to shoot first and ask questions later. While I don't consider myself a cop-basher or cop-bootlicker, the objective truth is that a search warrant is a home invasion. It's only a judge's signature on a piece of paper that makes it a legal home invasion.
The aggressive attack in the dead of night is what Stalin's NKVD did, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn asked "what if we had resisted?" Well, Americans are armed, and they will resist if they believe they are under assault by criminals. And that is an entirely reasonable assumption to make when unknown people kick down your door in the middle of the night.
Police need to reconsider the stormtrooper tactics for the protection of the community and for themselves. If the police have an arrest warrant, they need to call the person out and give him a reasonable chance to surrender. If they have a search warrant, they need to come in the day, knock and announce and only resort to the stormtrooper tactics if they are denied entry. Oh sure, they say they need to "prevent destruction of evidence." Well, they need to balance that against the need to prevent destruction of cops.