What I’ll pray is that police chiefs stop throwing peoples’ lives away serving warrants by having them create violent situations where there was none, based on paid confidential informants.
Odd that this is covered here as a mass shooting rather than what it was- yet another unnecessarily violent no knock raid by police. Yeah, we’re half-way to a police state but somehow the problem isn’t the cops bursting into peoples’ homes for the “crime” of consensual exchange. One might also call this “victim blaming”, which I thought was officially disapproved, but I’ll be nice and not flag.
As Reason’s Sullum put it, “the violent home invasion that police staged on Monday would have been reckless and immoral even if Tuttle and Nicholas were selling heroin. But the evidence against them seems to have been limited to the word of a paid confidential informant who claimed to have seen drugs and a handgun that were mysteriously gone the following day, even though police supposedly were watching the house in the interim.”
