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Originally Posted by chasep255
Interesting thought. What if the cop is lawfully entering but you think it is unlawful and stop him.
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That's what we're talking about.
The cops take a very narrow view that "We've got badges and uniforms, we're the police!" They overlook the fact that when they're outside bashing on the door, the people on the inside can't SEE the badges and the uniforms. And since anyone can buy a badge and a uniform, that doesn't provide any proof that the guys smashing through the door aren't home invaders, anyway. Yeah, it may be a real cop and he may have a technically-legal warrant to conduct a no-knock entry -- but if I'm the guy inside, and they have the wrong address on the warrant or somebody lied to get the warrant, how am I supposed to know they are legitimate?
If you read through the archives of no knocks gone bad on the web site of the Cato Institute, there are any number of cases where warrants were "served" on people who bought a house and moved in, six months prior. The cops were so out of date they had no idea that the people they were after had not lived at that address for SIX FREAKIN' MONTHS.