Numerous deaths & injuries to innocent people caused by No-Knock Warrants documented in these videos. No-Knock Warrants should be banned & outlawed.

There are calls for justice after a Minneapolis SWAT team officer shot and killed Amir Locke, a 22-year-old Black man, while executing a no-knock warrant.

26-year-old woman killed during what her family’s attorney calls “botched” execution of warrant

The family of Breonna Taylor is suing the Louisville Police Department for gross negligence and wrongful death after she was shot as part of an early morning narcotics investigation in March. Jericka Duncan reports.

Child Injured by Grenade Attack during SWAT Raid

Baby in Coma After Police ‘Grenade’ Dropped in Crib During Drug Raid

A Georgia toddler has been put into a medically induced coma after he was badly burned by a police “flash bang” grenade that landed in the crib where the boy was sleeping during a drug raid, his mother told ABC News today.

Alecia and Bounkham Phonesavanh never imagined their family would be at the center of a controversy over the militarization of police. But that’s exactly where they found themselves when their toddler was seriously injured by a SWAT team, also leaving them with a $1 million medical bill they have no hope of paying.

At approximately 2 a.m. May 28, the family awakened to a blinding flash and loud explosion in their bedroom. A numerous deaths & injuries documented in these videos caused by No-Knock WarrantsSpecinumerous deaths & injuries documented in these videos caused by No-Knock Warrantsal Response Team (aka SWAT team) from the Habersham County Sheriff’s Office burst unannounced into the bedroom where they were sleeping. According to police reports, Habersham Deputy Charles Long threw a “flash-bang” grenade – a diversionary device used by police and military – into the room. It landed in Bou Bou’s pack-and-play.

“They messed up,” Alecia Phonesavanh told ABC News’ “20/20.” “They had a faulty search warrant. They raided the wrong house.”

Baby in Coma After Police ‘Grenade’ Dropped in Crib During Drug Raid

Sheriff said news of the incident felt like “sledgehammer” to his stomach.

New $1.65M settlement for parents of Georgia toddler injured…

A federal judge awarded Friday a $1.65 million settlement to the parents of “Baby Bou Bou,” the Georgia toddler injured in 2014 by deputies using a flash-bang grenade while serving a no-knock warrant.

Since the end of the Cold War, SWAT teams have proliferated across the United States and the number of no-knock raids on private citizens has risen dramatically. Abby Hall and Chris Coyne explain that this is the result of the boomerang effect– the process by which, in the absence of strong formal constraints, tactics used in foreign interventions abroad are later used to limit the liberties of people back home.