Notuern....What's the difference between police and swat? I thought swat consisted of Police officers with different training?
Swat is an elite para-military group, that has special training for going in to "hotspots".
They are only supposed to be used when a situation is judged to be too dangerous for regular law enforcement officers.
Like hostage situations in banks, taking down druglords(Which wasnt really the case here.), taking care of gangwars, walking in to a house with people deemed "armed and dangerous" etc.
Simply put, they take care of the things that are in the middle ground between the military and police(For some reason they are considered a part of the police-force though.).
In this case, it was a family home, with a person who possessed small amounts of marijuana.
In these cases normally, the police is called in with a warrant.
IF this is how the situation would have been dealt with, the police would have knocked on the door, showed the warrant(If the residents complied.), asked them to lock their dogs in to the bathroom and then they would search the home with a detection dog, and if they found a good cause, they would simply arrest the suspects.
Normally, this is pretty undramatic(Unless the suspect resists arrest or something.).
But instead of doing this, someone thought it was a good idea to send in a para-military group armed to the teeth, and let them kick in the door, shoot their dog in front of the child, then kill the second caged dog just for fun and slam the unarmed man up against a wall under gunpoint just to get that whole gram of marijuana.
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