Guess the bigger question here, and not knowing the local politics, why did the supervisors in the Virginia State Police, and whatever local police or Sheriffs office agree to have their officers participate in this raid?
I have been involved in the decision making process in the past where a state agency similar to Virginias ABC agents wanted to raid an establishment for an administrative matter, and wanted local police to run interference with the local population that would get riled up. Our Chief who I rarely agreed with on anything decided that their warrant was chickenschidt and told them they could do it by themselves. They didnt go through with it
Betting the ABC wouldnt have gone through with this hairbrained operation if their agents would have had to do it themselves.
The Governors office should be seeing who in the Virginia State Police approved their participation.
If local Sheriffs participated, same question should be asked by the elected Sheriff.
Virginia is much like the U.S.
The 'bureaucracy' is full of Democrat placed lifers after 8 years of McScumlif and then Northman.
Those 2 undid everything McConnell put in place.
