They should really reserve all that nonsense for genuinely dangerous criminals, there's no need to burst out all the military hardware for a guy who has no record of violence who is being arrested for non-violent process crimes.
The FBI will never recover it's reputation.
Arresting officers do this to prevent the destruction of evidence. Look at this guy. A professed "dirty tricks" political operative, who has Nixon's face tattooed on his body and who has been best friends with the guy in the Oval Office: Mister "drain the swamp," for decades. Notice any chance for corruption while you and I were at work in real jobs?
With all due respect, Stone saw this raid coming weeks, if not months, ago. If there was any evidence within his reach he could safely destroy, it's been gone for a long time. Moreover, how is he to "dirty trick" his way out of an arrest warrant?
For once, I have to side with Blackrook here, at least partially. It is, of course, ridiculous, to call a SWAT team, automatic weapons and riot gear, to arrest a crook, when two plainclothes officers would do.
It's just the usual militarization of law enforcement that encompasses the entire country. The ridiculous thing isn't that the forces set in march were entirely inappropriate in this instance, it's that, in this instance of a Republican crook being arrested, the Trumpletons find their voice decrying the practice, when usually they have not a word to say about it.