General said:
Is it wrong that the first thing I thought after reading the article was "he should have used a rifle"?
No offense to law enforcement officers, but it's only a matter of time before more perps start wearing body armour (makeshift or commercially available stuff) due to the rising use of deadly force in defense by homeowners.
The bad guys are wearing armor here in Michigan...several have, and are armed with automatic (not semi) AKs!!! Given that, time to upgrade from the 870 Tacti-Kool shotgun to the Barrett .50 BMG with APs? Even if it didn't penetrate the bad guy's plate armor, it would knock him /her back to the stone age.
Okay, I had my chuckle...time to be more serious.
No knock warrants are stupid. Human life is worth more than the BS evidence that they allege to desire to preserve to prosecute some DA. Besides, if the DA BG is dead, what does the evidence mean in the first place?! See the problem with SWAT, and any other group that has toys, they have to justify their need or they don't get funded.
Mr. Gump was right. "Stupid is as stupid does", and in this case we saw some pretty serious stupid. What's next...send SWAT to bring truant children back to school?! Or, how about we send SWAT to disarm that 10-year-old girl in the Florida cafeteria. :banghead: I can just see it:
*SWAT Commander: "Protect the evidence at all cost"
*Scramble to positions, MP5, AR and the like trained on innocent 10-year-old girl
*Girl gingerly trims her meal, school-pizza...AKA leather-on-a-tray
*SWAT Commander orders: "Drop the weapon!"
*Girl looks to see who has weapon
SWAT Commander repeats: "Drop the weapon or we will open fire!"
*Girl looks again to see who has a weapon...being alone in the cafeteria, she drops the knife and complies.
SWAT Commander shouts: "Not the knife, the pizza....drop the pizza...NOW!!!"
*Master-blasters fire 50,000 rounds into 10-year-old child, but preserve the evidence...1 slice of 5-year-old, shoe-leather-like, greasy pizza (we all ate it) and one dull-from-use-on-school-pizza steak knife.
*SWAT Commander speaks victoriously to media:
"We received a call of a truant child. The truant child was absent from school, so we sought an alternate use of our newly deployed toys...weapons. We did manage to locate a felon, armed with a piece of school-issue-pizza, and yeah she also had a dull knife. Fearful for our lives, after all, we have all eaten that pizza, we fired 50,000 rounds of ammo into the child. We would have fired more but there was no target remaining into which we might fire, and frankly, that was all the ammo we possessed. Thank-you for funding our obsession, and thus enabling us to abuse children, the elderly and occasionally a home near you...coming to your door any day now."