FBI deaths show dangers of warrants
Mario Ariza - South Florida Sun Sentinel
Two FBI agents were shot and killed in a Sunrise neighborhood attempting to serve a warrant on Tuesday, February 2, 2021.
Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel/TNS
SUNRISE, Fla. – Everything that cops do is supposed to prevent the kind of tragedy that struck Tuesday.
FBI agents serve search warrants almost every day, planning every meticulous detail to avoid bloodshed. Where will agents be stationed? Is the suspect armed? Is he aware they’re coming? Is he likely to become violent?
What became clear Tuesday, in conversations with former federal agents and retired law enforcement officers, is that whatever plan the FBI had for serving a child pornography warrant in Sunrise must have gone terribly awry.
Former federal agents say the FBI task force assigned to carry out a search warrant Tuesday in Sunrise must have had a plan, and the plan must have gone terribly wrong.
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