I'm not blaming the officer, I'm blaming the process, and the judge that signed off on a no knock warrant, when it clearly wasn't ...er...warranted. Even IF the subject had 2 ounces of heroin, clearly, this isn't going to be a record drug bust for the "Strike Force". This guy was NOT a major player, their intel was horrible, execution sucked, and a man lost his life over it. The officer did exactly what he was trained to do. The problem is that he was placed in a situation, needlessly, that forced him to rely on his training. We're big on constitutional rights on this forum, and we talk a lot about our First and Second Amendment rights, but what has happened to the Fourth Amendment? This was obviously a big deal for the founding fathers, why should it be any less so with us? And how do sealed warrants and confidential informants reconcile with the Sixth Amendment? When do we finally say that the Bill of Rights applies to all of the people all of time? I realize the guy who was killed was no angel, he had a well documented history of (minor) criminal activity. Does that mean that he should die based on shaky intel and vague accusations, just because he chose to try to protect himself from parties unknown invading his home in the middle of the night?

/rambling rant