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Here’s the problem: If your drug cops conduct a raid that ends up putting a child in the hospital with critical burns, and they did nothing that violates your department’s policy, then there’s something wrong with your policy.

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According to local coverage of the lawsuit in the Powell Tribune, the expert also testified that “the potential risk to officers justified not looking in the window to see the exact spot where the device would land.”

Got that? In order to protect police officers, we just have to accept that while enforcing the drug laws, we’ll occasionally get burned babies and incinerated homes.