[vin-one]

Does anyone know why the search warrant was sealed?

One can only guess, but I will start
CYA
coverup
Get all their Ducks in a row
After the fact alteration
Gun Plant
Drug plant

take your choice this whole thing stinks Like Roscoe's rhetoric.

[Heyworth]

What consistently stuns me in these cases is that cops have an automatic "get out of jail free/get away with murder" card. All they have to say is, "I'm sorry, I thought he had a gun." Amadou Diallou? "I'm sorry, I thought he had a gun" That guy whose face they blew off in Maryland? "I'm sorry, I thought he had a gun." This new one? "I'm sorry, I thought he had a gun." And that's all it takes. As long as the cop simply says, "I thought he had a gun," he's essentially allowed to shoot anyone he wants. Or there's the variant, "I thought I was in imminent danger." That's the one they used in L.A. when they shot a 55 year old homeless woman with mental problems who was standing 20 feet away with a screwdriver in her hand.