In anticipation of his upcoming book, Radley Balko is going to blog about a different drug raid each day until the book hits store shelves.  The first installment is about the 1996 Miami raid on the apartment of Richard Brown:

The police in Miami had received a tip from an informant that Brown, who had no criminal record, was selling drugs from his small apartment. So they sent the SWAT team. The police claimed at the time that Brown began firing at them as soon as they entered his home. So they fired back.

And they fired back.

And they fired back.

Read the whole article here.