I did that job for a long time. I'm very proud to say that I survived, arrested thousands of "[bleep] birds", or whatever you called them, and never got in any trouble. Oh, none of them died by my hand either. On that note, the first thing I did when this situation arose was look up and read the search warrant. (They are open record and usually available online immediately after service in larger jurisdictions.) It looked like trouble right off the bat. I haven't seen a paper that vague in 25 years. That is why I have been absent from this discussion from the start.
Not that my opinion on such things matter.
Cops that strive to do right by the law and follow the rule of law... are probably more outraged than the avg. Joe when some A-hole like this is caught abusing it.
That it resulted in death and injury just compounds it.
They need to make an example of them with valid prosecution. No favors.
