Quote Originally Posted by Byte Stryke View Post
well hell lets just search now and worry about the warrant later... I'll take your word for it.

what if you were the shooter? Knowing you had taken the life of an innocent man startled from his sleep by a wrongful entry? he wasn't a drug dealer... he was an innocent man facing a breach of his home.

warrant? yeah we will get that later... trust me.


Show me in a single term how a "no knock raid" doesn't violate reasonable search and seizure.
Justify to me the reasoning why you cannot knock on the door with the building surrounded. whats he going to do? take his family hostage? weigh that against some gestapo ass-clowns killing a little kid and me paying higher taxes for it for the next 80 years when the PD gets sued into bankruptcy

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

take your "Oh, its totally legal" Attitude and check it against the civil rights.

No knock raids have NO PLACE in a civil and constitutional country.
Whoa! Gettin' some attitude. I asked simply what was illegal. They had a legal warrant at the time of the execution, not after. They had a judges permission to search the home. There was no search now and get a warrant later. His innocence? According to the reports, he wasn't innocent, although he may not have been a dealer. He may have been simply a user, but drugs were dealt out of the house, either by him or his girlfriend who lived with him.

My "Oh, its totally legal" attitude as you state is pretty misguided. Where in the what, three posts I put on this did I say anything at all about it being "totally legal" or that I agreed with the no-knock premise? During the two years I was assigned to the DEA drug task force, we never did a no-knock warrant. They are difficult to get and you have to provide a lot of good reasons why the judge should allow one.