Do You Support This?

I'm having trouble posting this video, so I'm just going to drop the link here.

WARNING: Content is graphic and disturbing.

The backstory on the video is the police were late on executing a warrant on a man suspected of holding "dealer-sized amounts" of marijuana. They found a misdemeanor amount, as well as some paraphernalia.

When we hear about instances like this, as I did when Radley Balko first reported on it, most of us tend to shrug our shoulders. We think it's stupid or unfortunate or the inevitable result of human error. And then we go about our day.

But when we see it, when we hear it, when we practically experience it ourselves, that is when we feel something else, something far more powerful, moving, and in this case, frightening, than just words on paper. After watching the video, did you not feel the horror of the seven-year old daughter? The fear and anguish of the mother? The shock, sorrow and humiliation of the father?

This, simply put, is domestic terrorism.

Do you support it? If so, why?

Commentary from others: Megan McArdle, Von from Obsidian Wings, Andrew Sullivan and Radley Balko.

(HT: Megan McArdle)