Someone sent me another interesting video from Tik Tok, this time showing cops making an entry into a home pursuant to a search warrant, guns drawn, due to the alleged high crime of failure to obtain a building permit. Here’s the footage:
You can hear them yell search warrant and then abruptly make entry, which is very close to a no knock entry. There is a constitutional requirement that police officer knock and announce their presence prior to making entry, even with a valid search warrant. There are exceptions for where a no knock warrant is obtained, or where exigent circumstances are presented at the scene, assuming the dangerousness presented wasn’t known prior to the warrant being obtained.
Assuming this is true that the search warrant was obtained due to a failure to obtain a building permit, I have some issues with this. Just because a search warrant is obtained, that doesn’t entitle law enforcement to treat the homeowner like she’s a drug dealer or known violent felon. Police still must act reasonable in executing a search warrant. This requires adjustment for the particular facts of the situation.
Merely executing a search warrant doesn’t justify pointing a gun at someone, assuming someone had been in the home. But alas, this is the world we live in, because we have allowed the government to do what it does best. For this reason, I’m glad that I live in a jurisdiction where there are actually no building permits. Do the buildings fall down around us? No, no they don’t. Just like the fact that we could fire every employee of every state barber and cosmetology board in the nation, and we’d all survive; we’d all be fine.
Government needs to be drastically downsized. How many cops were involved in this? Did they just need some extra hand-on-gun time this month? It’s too bad these tough guys weren’t in Uvalde. All-in-all, I’m sure most judges would allow what’s occurred here. But I wouldn’t. This is unreasonable. Fire everyone involved and don’t replace them. That’s what I’d do.
UPDATE 8/2/22:
The homeowner reached out and spoke with my today, also providing copies of the underlying documents. It only gets worse with more information. Check it out:
The “Inspection Warrant:
The underlying “affidavit”:
Seems that this is getting to be an everyday occurrence.Trouble is with youyr attitude,they would never let you be a judge because you would not allow this stupidity.
This happens to thousands of innocent citizens EVERYDAY!