Movement To Limit Police Raids Looks Beyond 'No-Knock' Warrants
The death of Breonna Taylor energized a nationwide movement to restrict "no-knock" police raids, but activists want tightened rules for other kinds of forced-entry search warrants.
by Martin Kaste
Nov 27, 2020
2 minutes
"No-knock" search warrants, which allow police to force their way into a home with the element of surprise, have attracted criticism since the height of the "war on drugs" in the 1980s and 90s. But it wasn't until this year that the death of Breonna Taylor galvanized that criticism into a national movement to ban the raids.
Taylor was shot to death in her own apartment . Now
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