I agree with you, also I have several friends who are cops who can tell you about "set-up" situations they have been in. Like the kid in the stolen car they chased for 11 blocks, only to have him ditch the car and run into a house.....to see daddy standing there with a video camera ready to tape the police "brutalizing" his son.
--I don't know one way or the other about what sort of ID, but right off the bat they should have been minimum in uniform and driving a marked car, that would certainly help, yes? Me, personally, been there, done that with no knock, no ID, plain clothes "cops", then having the privelege of having them lie on the stand and show some crap they pulled out of the pantry as "high grade marijuana and lsd", when it was oregano straight out of a spice jar, and some vitamin capsules. Screw those lying piece of crap goons. Took me years to beat that, too, but I did it. Big wake up call for a poor teenage kid that I was then who grew up rah rahing john wayne and elliot ness on the teevee, to see how low they will slink to to avoid embarassment when they make a mistake, one of the reasons I speak out about it all the time, it REALLY sinks in when it happens to you. And over the years I have found out how pervasive it has gotten, it's a LOT more common than most folks think.
. Sorry, what they did in this case, that's bogus-ness, nazi crapola we really don't need in this nation, at least not anywhere's near what they are doing now with it.
As to the other situation you mentioned, no idea, sounds weird to me. Maybe if all the people in the nation were armed, scumbags wouldn't live long enough to breed more scumbags? I wouldn't mind a full return to second amendment vermont style carry, and a coupla years of sorting out the decent folks from the crooks, wouldn't bother me one bit. Wouldn't bother me one bit either if all the national police "brotherhoods" would go on strike until the constitution was restored, either, and refuse to follow any more illegal orders.