Disturbing helmet-cam video from the raid:
Balko asks pertinent questions:
[I]magine you’re asleep—behind a couple walls, after working a graveyard shift—for what you see in the video. Would you have woken up and known that these were cops breaking into your home? Might it have been in the back of your mind that you had relatives murdered by armed intruders just a year ago?
The episode looks like a scene from a dystopian movie where America has become a police state. This is where the drug war has taken us. It must end.
The Dish 