I’m trying to figure out why so many people are focused on the issue of the kid. The baby makes this news sensational, but it would be no more appropriate if the victim had been the suspect. This shouldn’t be about them not knowing there was a kid in the house.
Police do not belong using military tactics and weapons in a civilian environment. Blindly tossing a flashbang is flat out wrong. Going immediately to SWAT and using that flashbang are the mistakes, not simply the lack of intel.
People are focusing on the wrong problem.
I think there’s a larger furore going on, and the baby has brought it to a focus. The questions will keep on getting asked how did things get this way, and there isn’t a plausible “sole answer” of “SCUM DRUG DEALER HERE — END OF STORY.”
That baby sure got little respect in this scene... but more importantly how much respect does the baby of Bethlehem get? In the church of that town, is it “My name is on their lips but their heart is far from me”?