Nobody deserves to have their door kicked in at 6 AM by the FBI. I have no love for coke dealers trust me, I hope the guy gets lots of time for possession with intent to distribute, but the tactics used by the FBI really concern me. They didn't learn from Waco when they could have gotten Koresh on one of his many visits to town. They didn't learn from Ruby Ridge. I understand the desire to get all the bad guys at once using simultaneous raids, but they had to know there were other people including children in the house when they planned the raid. There has to be a better way to execute warrants than " FBI.. we have a warrant open up" at 6 AM.. pre dawn at this time of the year.
Someone at the local FBI office is going to have to look him or herself in the mirror for a damn long time and try to justify if getting a couple Kilos of coke was worth an agents life, destroying his family, and the effects it is going to have on the children involved on both sides of that thin blue line.
In these troubled times, when home invasions are on the rise, it is not in my opinion, unreasonable for homeowners to assume the worst when their doors get kicked in under the cover of darkness. When does it become unreasonable? How many more innocent people have to drop dead from heart attacks when the wrong door is kicked in. How many more law enforcement officers have to be lost in the line of duty because someone decided this was Fallujah and not the United States of America.
I know what I wrote about the FBI getting what it deserves sounds harsh. There has to be a better, and safer way to execute warrants. There has to be some consideration that there were minor children in the house. I know criminals don't have a lot of regard for the rule of law. Knowing that the subject of the warrant was a convicted felon and probably going to do what felons do when they know they are about to get busted on another felony charge, don't you think there was another way to handle this?