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The local law enforcement in this story confounds me. What interest do they really have in carrying out these ill-advised raids? You'd think on a local level, a commander or incident commander would simply say "I'm not risking my men for this nonsense." You're trained to think about these things first so that you don't take your group out unnecessarily. Anytime a SWAT team goes out with live automatic weapons, your team members are in a risky situation, even if it's only with regard to an accidental shooting among the group. Which is why you don't deploy over nothing. Which is what they did, knowingly.
Great reporting on an important story. Thanks.
