# Yet another SWAT raid death and no charges filed

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 20, 2011, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-swat-raid-death-and-no-charges-filed/568278 "2011-01-20T02:57:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-swat-raid-death-and-no-charges-filed/568278/444 "2011-02-11T06:27:47Z")

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> [@Bricker](#):
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> Sure, no reason. But suppose you point me to Czarcasm’s post where he acknowledged that criminal charges weren’t on the table and said, “Nowlet;s talk about the issue of justice!”
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> “Raised?” No. Used it to rebut the general feel that the man was wearing a halo and shot while raising money to feed orphans?

I’m assuming no such post by Czarcasm exists and that you believe this proves something. At the same time, I’ll assume you believe that a “wearing a halo” post _does_ exist and this also proves something. I mean, they’re both such convenient clams for you, aren’t they, because they _sound_ relevant but aren’t, really.

What difference does it make if the guy has a halo or not? Shouldn’t the more relevant criterion be if he has a criminal record suggesting violence that _might_ justify a smash-in entry with the intent of overwhelming him?

Besides, even a saintly person with no criminal record, confronted with shouting men in their home in the middle of the night might behave as he did and be shot for it. You yourself admit that you’d probably be dead under these circumstances too. Do _you_ have a halo? Would it matter if you did or not?

Sure, being a criminal increases the odds that one day police will come smashing into your house to serve a no-knock entry, but:

-This is not guaranteed, since the majority of criminals don’t have this happen to them; and  
-This occasionally _does_ happen to people with no criminal records at all.

I figure _anybody_ might behave as the dead man did - you, me, some random guy in some random house - so his record (or halo-status) is of no relevance, but you bring it up anyway because you seem to think you can claim it does. I’m not sure why - I don’t think anybody here is stupid enough to fall for it.

Well, nobody that matters, anyway.

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