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Ignoring the general abuse and overuse of no knock warrants, it turns out the police didn't actually have one. So they had no right, legally, to create the situation that put them in danger and forced them to shoot the dogs.
And the fact that it was a scheme has already been determined. They've arrested the FedEx driver involved.
The purpose of a no-knock warrant is to either protect evidence against being destroyed (which seems unlikely with 32 pounds of marijuana) or to protect the police against an expectation of violence should they announce themselves (and if merely possessing pot creates that risk then we'll really have to just disagree).
It seems awfully circular to then claim that the protection against violence was the tool that created the violence that they had to protect themselves against.
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