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Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND
The latter would be true even if the courts later determined that the police had failed to properly identify themselves (which would make this a no-knock raid) and the no-knock portion of the warrant was later determined to be illegal (which it was). That’s how the law works.
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The degree to which the police botched this is pretty crazy and then trying to cover it up is depraved.
The Supreme Court ruled decades ago that if you're going to forcibly enter someone's castle to serve a drug warrant you must give specific direct evidence on the person named in the warrant. You can't just say, well it's a drug related case so let's do whatever we want. Guilt by association isn't good enough.