Moderating: I changed the title. OP had changed it to something disrespectful to the victims of police killings.
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Police fire at an unarmed suspect and kill an innocent bystander.
9 cops shot and killed a man walking on the side of the interstate in Nashville. He was holding a box cutter. One of the shooters was an off-duty officer from another county. Why he was there and allowed to participate is unknown. Another officer has been decommissioned because he fired 2 shots from his rifle after the man was already on the ground dead or dying.
Edited spelling.
Minneapolis Police out there killing innocent civilians again.
tldr
MPD executes “No Knock Warrant,” killing the only occupant of the premises.
Dead innocent civilian was NOT the subject of the arrest warrant and appears to have no relationship to the target.
Innocent civilian was a licensed gun owner, who carried a fire arm due to his job as a delivery driver.
Released footage makes it clear that Amir Locke was awakened by noises in his apartment and grabbed his firearm in self defense, and killed by police without a chance to react
Minneapolis Police insist on "No Knock Warrant despite St. Paul Police requesting regular warrant.
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And the NRA released the same statement of support for this law abiding gun owner that they did for Philandro Castille. I wonder why that is?
No knock warrants are terrible.
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Knock Knock!
It’s not a joke :(.
If only they had knocked
I can think of very very few reasons they might be appropriate. Maybe in a hostage situation… Even there, i think the odds are better with negotiation than with slamming open the door.
Yeah, no knock warrants are terrible.
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Yeah, if you are concerned the suspect will flee then surround the place and knock in most cases.
I mean maybe, maybe, if the suspect is a well-known celebrity that the cops are unlikely to misidentify, and “the place” is a sprawling estate on a lot of acres where surrounding it is not physically feasible, then a no-knock warrant might make more sense.
But in the other 99.99% of cases I’m not sure why it’s needed. What is the general case for no-knock warrants?
No knock warrants are normally asked for in situations where the cops are going after a criminal known to be violent and typically armed. They can also be asked for in situation where evidence expected to be onsite can be destroyed in a very short time frame.
Things can sometimes go very wrong with them. But overall, they save lives by allowing police to surprise and overwhelm wanted persons who would likely otherwise choose suicide by cop or hostage taking. They are a dangerous/highly useful tool whose use needs to be closely managed.
Yeah no knock warrants are generally for the protection of the police. But they seem to be overused and have a somewhat high probability of becoming an explosive situation resulting in preventable deaths.
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Good story from last year by John Oliver on No Knock Warrants
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If “suicide by cop” is undesirable, why are the cops so quick to shoot in these situations?
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If someone shoots at you, you shoot back.
Shooting 101.
Try not to get into situations where someone shoots at you though.
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I could see making them harder to get so they’d be used more sparingly. Maybe 3 judges need to sign off on a no-knock warrant rather than just one for a normal warrant? I dunno, just brainstorming.
This sounds like “they might flush some drugs down the toilet”. You know what, I’d be happy if a thousand drug dealers weren’t immediately caught if it meant one fewer innocent person was murdered by the police.
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I think most would agree with you, even cops.
The question is who is deeming these warrants as necessary. It ain’t cops.
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Shooting first is the better choice. Just make sure there is enough evidence after the fact that your life was immediately threatened before the fact.
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Now you’re crossing the line.