“You’ve got a citizen - the highest paid municipal official in Little Rock, Arkansas, making $260,000 a year running the airport - no criminal background history, nothing, and he’s dead at a pre-dawn raid,” says Representative Jim Jordan (R)-Ohio
“On behalf of myself, ATF and all law enforcement, we are very sorry when those things happen. Also, an agent was shot that day and I’m sure you are sorry that that occurred also, of course. All the more reason to not have the no-knock warrant take place and follow the rules.”
ATF’s Dettelbach said agents were not wearing body cameras because the devices have only been rolled out to about one/third of ATF’s field divisions, and Arkansas is not among them. [Today May 23, Steven Dettelbach, the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), testified before Congress following the death of Little Rock Airport executive, Bryan Malinowski.]
Of course they were not wearing body cameras. No knock raids should be completely outlawed. Period.