Omaha PD Suspending Some No-Knock Warrants Following Fatal Shooting

KIOS | By Associated Press

Published September 16, 2024 at 9:30 AM CDT

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Members of the San Leandro Police Department SWAT Team during a planned training exercise in 2013. The FBI has been monitoring "swatting" — made-up crimes called in to 911 that are designed to get SWAT teams to deploy — for nearly 10 years.

Police in Nebraska’s largest city are reevaluating their use of some no-knock search warrants after an unarmed Black man was killed by an officer while executing a no-knock warrant. The Omaha World-Herald reports that Deputy Police Chief Scott Gray says the use of standard entry no-knock warrants was suspended pending a full review of best practices. Officer Adam Vail was part of a SWAT team serving a warrant during a drug investigation last month when he fatally shot 37-year-old Cameron Ford. Vail said Ford charged at him without his hands visible. Officials declined to charge the officer, but advocates say Ford should have been taken into custody, not killed.