I am glad that more people are realizing SWAT/no knock raids/use of militarized police should be exceptional events only used in rare and unique cases. They should never be part of ‘regular policing.’ This doesn’t matter if someone is a BLM member, a part of the KKK, or the chapter head of the local knitting club. No knock raids should still not be part of regular policing.
Now, there will be cases where SWAT and no knock raids will be required. For example, an armed group massing up inside a building, a hostage event, a situation that is rapidly going off the rails and it is clear armed violence is imminent.
But outside such cases there is no need to send a squad of militarized police to a residence. There are many cases that only require a Barney Fife to resolve, and sending over Mayberry’s version of FBI HRT only risks making a situation much worse.
Save Delta/DEVGRU for situations that really require those special skills, and even then serious planning needs to be undertaken to avoid a Waco.
Anyway - glad people are realizing no knock raids may have been taken too far. They should not be standard police procedure.
Btw my post above (that I am glad people are realizing it) is because there were always FReepers trying to explain it away, especially when it was a ‘BLM’ type shot. Thing is, the same rationale and tactics used against one group is the same exact rationale and tactics that will be used against you! The young man in this particular situation was straight up murdered! While there are many good police officers who are true officers of the law, there is a group that is questionable. And that group doesn’t care if someone is white, polka dotted and made of vantablack!
Just look at the video of the shooting of Daniel Shaver by Officer Philip Brailsford.
Daniel Shaver was on the floor, been given all sort of conflicting orders, and when he messed up he was shot. Daniel was white (the officer was white too), showing it’s not a white-black thing but rather something else.
I would take SWAT out of local police forces, and make it a state police function. Any local police wants a no knock SWAT raid, they would have to put in a request and show justification.