I've said it before, and I'll say it again. There are ZERO legitimate reasons for no-knock searches or any late night/predawn searches. ZERO.
Best I can tell, when police are intent on using force, this is what they do. And courts routinely justify them even when the warrants are served ILLEGALLY.
Years back I posted a thread in which police served a bullshit warrant; obtained fraudulently, that required them to serve it in day time hours, and required them to knock and announce; by breaking down the door in the middle of the night without announcing themselves. They then shot the resident in the head. The court ruled that while they did violate his fourth amendment right they were still justified in killing him.
I feel this deserves its own thread. In a case brought by a murder by SWAT, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that summary execution is within the appropriate range of punishments for possessing a small amount of marijuana and that "no reasonable jury could have found that the Officers'...
www.northeastshooters.com
That's how perverse the system is.
There was also the example where police, again serving a fraudulently obtained warrant, murdered a 80-year old man in his own bed. Or one where they murdered a 107-year-old man and then gave themselves awards.
The Board of Supervisors agreed Tuesday to pay out $1.6 million to the widow of an 80-year-old man fatally shot by sheriff's deputies.
mynewsla.com
"I don't understand...were you in the war? No, I killed a 107-year-old man"
reason.com
Then of course there is the murder of Jose Guerena, in which we have a long running thread about.
The wife of a Tucson man killed in a Pima County SWAT raid May 5 pleaded for five minutes with 911 dispatchers to send an ambulance for her mortally wounded husband, audio records show. Often through tears and sometimes in broken English, Vanessa Guerena, tells 911 operators that her husband...
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Or Julian Betton who was shot in his own home after police broke down his door with a battering ram, and then EVERY SINGLE COP INVOLVED LIED ABOUT IT.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoDIr3yAwMA
Or where SWAT breaks into a house in the middle of the night and shoot and kill a 7-year-old girl.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vubv-Q8qKgg
The list is literally endless, as more examples continue to happen.
But don't worry, police are the good guys.