The reason raids like this take place supposedly is to stop people from destroying evidence in the moment. Otherwise, they could just surveil the house and wait for the subject to leave in most cases. Even at WACO that would have worked.

You have to ask yourself- is the benefit of raids like this worth the corrosive effect it has on people's perception of the police? I would want to hear that debate, because on the face of it I feel like the answer is perhaps no.

We can't be minting contempt of the police, but that's what this does to more people than just the vicitims and their immediate families.

I remember one of our glorious virtue signalling "comedians", I think it was Chris Rock, saying "just show me one White person shot by the cops like this..." when, back in reality where Chris Rock rarely visits, just the month before a guy had been shot dead by a cop as he was literally crawling on his hands and knees, on order of the cop, towards the cop in a motel corridor. The guy's mistake was, in a moment of instinctive modesty, to momentarily reach slowwwwllllly down to pull up his falling-off pants....

BAM BAM BAM!!!

There was no reason for it. You could not watch that perfectly clear video and conclude the officer acted reasonably in any way. It was like he was looking for an excuse to kill this guy.

Some people should not be cops because it's an extremely trying job and takes a metric shit ton of bedrock character and also the ability to stay collected under life and death situations. That excludes most of us.

When people who should not be cops do what these cops do, they need to be punished like anyone else. No one disagrees with this, so why doesn't it happen?