One more on the "Now it's Officer Jackboot" theme Updated

This time from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office:
On the morning of June 27, detectives raided the couple’s home in unincorporated Littlerock, serving a search warrant granted because the property allegedly smelled of the ingredients used to make methamphetamine, according to sheriff’s department officials.

There’s a dispute about what exactly happened at the home in the 36600 block of 117th Street East (map), east of Palmdale, but Eugene Mallory ended up dead, shot six times.

No evidence of a meth operation was ever found, though sheriff’s officials say marijuana was found on the property.
80-year-old man murdered in his home.  Because 'We smelled the stuff.'  Right.

The list of bullshit in this is long and stinks badly.  I'm going to skip to this:

Marijuana was found on another part of the property where Tonya’s lived, she said.

“There was a drug operation that was certainly going on in this house,” Whitmore said.

There was a drug operation that was certainly going on in the house. Certainly.  Even though there is no evidence, because, certainly.  And shut up, they explained.
THEY FOUND NOTHING IN THE HOUSE.  They SAY they found marijuana ON ANOTHER PART OF THE PROPERTY(which could mean 'there was a wild plant found in a corner of the yard'), and that means "There Was A Drug Operation Going On Here. So don't bother us about killing an old man in a raid over smells."

We're supposed to trust these bastards why, again?

Update:
Also from CJ,
Two weeks before he officially left the Framingham Police Department, outgoing Chief Steven Carl disbanded the department’s SWAT team, about two and a half years after an accidental fatal shooting during a raid.
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“Chief Carl disbanded the SWAT team and one of the main reasons articulated was that myself and Deputy (Steven) Trask did not have the training needed to lead the team,” acting Chief Kenneth Ferguson said on Friday.
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The team came under scrutiny in 2011 when a Framingham man was accidentally shot and killed by SWAT team member Officer Paul Duncan in a drug raid on Fountain Street.

On Jan. 5, 2011, Duncan shot Eurie Stamps Sr., 68, who was laying on the ground, when Duncan lost his balance and tripped, firing the M4 submachine gun once. The shot killed Stamps.
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After the shooting, Carl assembled a community panel to look at the shooting, and the chief instituted several policy changes after an independent probe of the team by SWAT expert Steve Ijames.

Some of the changes included reducing the team from 18 members to 12, increasing training and a mandate for officers to keep a firearm’s safety on until the weapon is needed.
Another 'national-class' team like the one that killed Guerena, it seems.