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True.There's more to safety than physical harm.
And one certainly can object to no-knock warrants on principle.
But to compare what did happen to other ways of arrest is not a 1:1 comparison.
We don't know what would have happened if LE initiated a different method.
He could have slipped them, broken into a neighboring home and murdered everyone in it. He's done it before.
He could have refused the traffic stop, instead plowing his vehicle into pedestrians.
I do notice, in the excerpt/document posted upthread by @MassGuy they did announce their presence. From the driveway. Before making entry at multiple points.
Here's a disturbing footnote of my own. "I'm here to help." What BK said in November, 2022, contrary to everything he did. Meanwhile, those involved in the raid had a signed warrant, to preserve and protect. As they made simultaneous entry, I bet they said something every much like "we're here to help" because BK's family needed immediate protection. If they feel traumatized by that, and I can imagine they would, it is BK who put them in that position. Lawful raid. BK brought all of this upon his family, and that surely is their real trauma.
JMO