https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/visiting-the-ghosts-of-waco
Your occasional reminder that the U.S. government has strong authoritarian tendencies. It doesn't hold back because government agents don't respect constitutional constraints or the rule of law. We're just sometimes able to hold it to account after the fact.
Sometimes. Not always.
"This swath of land entered the history books on February 28, 1993, when federal agents attacked this sprawling home occupied by members of an offshoot of the Seventh Day Adventists, a Christian sect founded by a Bulgarian immigrant in 1935. Seventy-six Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms agents arrived on cattle trailers, shot the Davidians’ dogs, and then commenced trying to blast and smash their way into the house occupied by scores of women, children, and men. The ATF supposedly had an arrest warrant for Davidian leader David Koresh but forgot to bring it along that morning. ATF named its operation Showtime, and made sure that multiple crews from local television stations were nearby to film their triumph."