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Originally Posted by btimbit
Well yeah, in hindsight, it wasn't. Put yourself in the cops shoes. There's someone known to police to sell drugs and carry weapons. He operates out of this house, which is proven when he sells to undercover cops. There's no indication that there are any children present, so they get the swat unit to raid the house. Only this time, the guy is gone, and suddenly there's children in the house. Not only that, but the child's playpen is blocking the door and unfortunately that's where the flashbang is thrown. You think those cops are laughing and high fiving each other after this? They feel horrible.
I never said the family deserved it, obviously it's horrible. But let's stop pretending this is the big bad cops out to harm them for no reason.
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Yeah cops are humans, if people just hate them they'll be more callous towards everyone. Horrible accident, blame goes on the idiot kid selling drugs around a family (atleast have some decency and do it in a car or something ffs). I always figured swat had heartbeat scanners or something and they would scan a house before entering but I guess not.
I'm usually one to pile on the cops if there's gross negligence but that does no good a lot of the time, if society were being over run by big bad fascist cops the worst thing to do would be to hate them and lash out as they'll only get worse. If anyone has a legitimate hatred towards police they should direct that anger at the people running the show and not the guys in harms way.