They dont usually get a search warrant for narcotics unless they think or have evidence that this guy was doing something more than smoking a little weed so I can see where Primogen's comment has validity in that aspect.

He obviously did something to raise a red flag and put his family in danger.

Regardless I still think the cops went way above what they should have done and went in guns a blazing for whatever reason and I'd be right there dead on the floor too if that were my dogs as Primogen said...

 

My guess: they got the wrong house and planted the weed!

 

Not exactly while the child looks on if he is in the other room. Still looks like excessive force but then again pit-bulls are very aggressive so you never know what they saw.

 

that makes much more sense than SWAT being deployed with warrants for a misdemeanor weed possesion.

Tuna: this video makes me mad as hell too but I am not going to arbitrarily pass judgement over what I saw in the video. We do not know the circumstances surrounding their action on the house, nor do we have a grasp on what they were presented with when entering the house...

 

all the said above is true which i wont argue against but i ask why they only use lethal force? there are many alternatives to subdue people/animals with non lethal force. only time they should go in hot is when they are doing high profile/risk warrants. armed drug dealers, felons, bla bla, but not families with a family pet and children. rubber bullets, tranquilizers, to name a few. whatever, im just mad. sometimes police need to put themselves in the other persons shoes and lose their "god complex". but then again their answer would be "i would never be in this situation because i obey the law!"

 

look....for a fully armored SWAT team to assemble and serve a warrant.... something DAMN serious is going down.

I have many friends on different SWAT and first responder teams and they love being on the teams but it requires great effort and basically a huge PITA to assemble , gear up, brief and deploy.

This is not some flippant warrant serve. The expectation of confrontation HAD to be high for that kind of response.

The idea of the wrong house has much more validity and plausability than any of the comments being made in here about SWAT response to a misdemeanor drug posession.

Obviously it was not the wrong house because we see the male being read his rights.

I would hope you would all assume that some degree of recon and preparation went into a SWAT deployment.

Mistakes do happen don't get me wrong but....damn...you guys are so quick to jump on "pigs" you cant objectively look at any of it......LOL

 

This =

Also, in some smaller metropolitan areas SWAT teams spend an inordinate amount more time training then they do responding to actual threats. They train and train and train, and some(not all) can't wait for a chance to storm in and put all that training to use. Its not a game, its not an excercise, and they are not in the movie SWAT. Its real life and they need to be held accountable for the actions they take

 

So people are beginning to understand my frustration and lack of trust in pigs these days... shit like this and moar and moar of it everyday.

 

BTW Primo, warrants are on a rubber stamp now. The can get one and destroy your whole home just because you looked at one of them wrong.

 

now who sounds like a movie script?

we are not in a perfect world but this is not the set of Training Day or Street Kings either.

I understand the frustration but, really? you are going to go the route of harrasement on this video or swat delivery of warrants in general???

Really??


Think, man. They are going to record and leak a video of themselves harrassing a innocent citizen???