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How often does it happen in the US that someone gets acquitted for killing a cop because they thought a no-knock-raid was a robbery and shot first? How often are police convicted of using excessive force during no-knock raids?
I know these are rhetorical questions to make your point, but I think looking at examples underscores it.
Last time I looked there was someone who a grand jury wouldn't indict and someone else who a jury wouldn't convict, but for the most part the raidees' odds weren't good. And in the time since that comment, Marvin Guy's status changed from "several years without trial" to "acquitted of capital murder, convicted of murder, sentenced to life in prison".
One cop was indicted for spray-and-pray tactics in the Breonna Taylor incident (not for excessive force against them, mind you, but for the risk to their neighbors further down the line of fire), but was cleared by a jury last year. Three cops were convicted over the Kathryn Johnston case, so that outcome is not unheard of either. But a typical outcome seems to be the one in the Phonesavanh case, where even if behavior is egregious enough to put taxpayers on the hook for it ($3.6M in that case, about half medical bills and damages vs half punitive, from a warrant based on false information that led to a baby being burned and mutilated by a flashbang grenade to his crib), it's still not egregious enough to convict anyone at fault.
It's been decades since the explosion in no-knock raids and its de facto consequences started making national news, but the de jure consequences still seem to be more a matter of luck than any fixed principle. Defending yourself from home invaders claiming to be police isn't safe, and of course non-police home invaders know it too.
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