"Dynamic Entry" Redux

Reason's Radley Balko on "dynamic entry" and other paramilitary tactics used by police forces around the country.

Remember Kathryn Johnston, the 92-year old Atlanta woman shot to death last year by police serving a drug warrant after being led to her house by a false tip? Well, that was just the beginning of the scandal; I have no idea why the media haven't been jumping all over the subsequent details of the case, including:

1. After mortally wounding Johnston (who apparently believed she was being robbed, a logical conclusion when masked men break down your door and come running at you with guns drawn), the officers handcuffed her and left her to die on the floor.

2. After failing to find any drugs in the house, one of the officers goes out to his car, retrieves a few bags of marijuana and claims to have "found" it in her basement.

3. After returning to the station, stated that a paid informant told them that he had purchased cocaine at the house. This was completely untrue.

4. Then, they approach a drug dealer they had used in the past as an informant, and tried to pressure him to make the claim they had already stated in point #3. The informant, Alex White, to his credit, refused to do so and instead went to the media with what happened.