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Originally Posted by Streck-Fu
I disagree.
This does change things.
If an officer is entering legally, there is no protection for an occupant resisting that entry. That has not changed as long as the officer has done everything correctly.
What HAS changed is when an officer attempts an illegal entry and the occupant knows it to be illegal, it puts in place legal protections for resisting the illegal entry. This protects home owners in cases when the police get the wrong address, fail to verify an address, or are pursuing a suspect and just start kicking down doors in a search, etc.
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Given all the different federal and state level organizations that now have SWAT teams (IRS, EPA etc), how the hell are we ever to know if we are being SWATTed for tax evasion, for not cleaning out our drainage ditch or for not returning a book to the library? In other words, one of these damn organizations can surely come up with something you are in violation of after the fact.