What about the Castle doctrine?
KILLEEN, TX — A police officer suffered fatal injuries while performing a pre-dawn no-knock raid on a local residence to search for drugs. Several officers were shot by a resident as they tried to enter an apartment through a ground-level window under the cover of darkness.
Detective Charles “Chuck” Dinwiddie, an 18-year veteran of the department — died two days after being shot on Friday morning. Approximately 5:30 a.m. on May 9th, the Killeen Police Department sent its SWAT team to execute a surprise raid on a middle-aged couple because they allegedly possessed substances without government permission.
Dinwiddie and several other SWAT agents snuck up to a window and tried to breach it to gain entry. The commotion caused one of residents to fire on the unidentified intruders, and Dinwiddie was struck in the face. Three others were shot; 2 were shot in the armor and 1 was shot in the thigh.
Oh, and you guessed it: No drugs were found. But because this is Texas, and the guy who shot the cop is black (unlike this guy), I imagine prosecutors will tie themselves in knots to go after him.
“No-knock raids” authorized by secret warrants is a problem. That’s how the US, using “night raids,” rounded up most of the people sitting in Gitmo. Minus the warrant. At least the Israelis knock down the doors of Palestinians in the light of day without warrants. So far they’ve taken more than 300 hostages and detained them without charge in the occupied territories in the past week. Something is very wrong with a democracy that acts more like a police state than it does like a republic with due process.