No-knock warrants have become a major issue since the 2020 police-involved shooting death of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky. The law enforcement protocol came under heavy scrutiny for not only the ways that they endanger the public, but also how they endanger the officers executing the warrant. Unless the situation at hand is extremely sensitive, there isn’t much justification to continue using a no-knock warrant. This story illustrates yet another example of why…
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, a jury has awarded a Black family $5.7 million for the trauma they endured back in 2018 at the hands of the Chicago Police Department SWAT. Officers were told that there was a convicted felon living in the New City neighborhood who was stashing drugs and guns at the home of Ebony Tate. The family doesn’t recall once hearing officers announce themselves; instead, what they heard was the sound of explosives, likely stun grenades, before the heavily armed group burst into the home, holding everyone, including children and a grandmother, at gunpoint. That grandmother, Cynthia Eason, was not even allowed to get dressed properly and was ordered outside in a t-shirt and her underwear.
No drugs, guns, or illicit money were found at the home…