Quote (Goomshill @ 5 Feb 2022 00:22)
What was Amir Locke supposed to do in this scenario? He had no opportunity to react or get his bearings. No way to tell the difference between police and armed robbers when only given a split second after waking to assess the room. Amir Locke had no chance, and the police just did their job according to their training. Neither party acted maliciously or broke the law. They were set on a collision course by a reckless no knock search warrant
No doubt Democrats will want to scapegoat the police and throw some officer under the bus. Maybe in a few years Frey will campaign on having locked up Officer Whipping Boy. It was a broken system that created this mess and put people into harms way for no justifiable reason. Especially not when the citys prosecutors are such a joke they'd just throw away any evidence obtained.
This is effectively correct. The scenario isn't "guy drew down on cops". The scenario is "Guy sleeps with a gun because he's in an area where criminal home invasions occur regularly, is shot dead before he can even identify who broke in while he was sleeping."
The victim of this no-knock warrant, and yes, he's absolutely a victim, had the right to his firearm. He also had a right to defend himself from what he may very well have perceived as a criminal threat to his life, and indeed, turned out to have taken his life. No-knock warrants are exceedingly dangerous for exactly this reason: How is the homeowner/tenant/guest supposed to determine, especially in a high crime area, that they're police, as opposed to criminals? I mean hell, if somebody busts into your house in the middle of the night, shouting and shining lights in your eyes so you can't see them, are you going to take it on faith that they're police at all, and not criminals looking to torture and kill you and your family?
No-knock warrants are simply a violation of property rights that leads to unnecessary death. Further, they're lazy as hell. What happened to the "stake-out" and catching your suspect outside of their home? What evidence did police even have that the actual tenant of the apartment was involved in the earlier homicide? How did police not know the tenant wasn't home? Shoddy work all the way around, all allowed because politicians have tricked you into believing you have no right to your own property, your own defensive weapons, or a right to self-defense.