Former FBI agent says THIS is the BIGGEST issue with Utah raid

A Utah resident named Craig Robertson was killed on Wednesday while FBI agents attempted to execute a search and arrest warrant. According to officials, Robertson had made several threats via his Facebook page against President Biden and others.

Glenn Beck isn’t convinced deadly force was justified in the raid of the 75-year-old man's home, so he sat down with former FBI agent Kyle Seraphin to hear what he thinks.

“You don’t do that. What he did was wrong, illegal, and you would expect the FBI to come in. However, you wouldn’t expect them to kill him. So, I don’t see a good guy here on either side. Although, I do kind of side with the victim,” Glenn tells Seraphin.

“The bigger picture,” Seraphin explains, “is this: you can make really bad decisions and get to the point where there’s a SWAT team there, and once that happens, a shooting of someone in that scenario can be very justified.”

He tells Glenn that if an officer has a reasonable belief that the person in question poses imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the officer or another person, then deadly force is justified.

“I’m pretty confident — I’ve talked to my buddies who are actually on that team — that this was a straightforward weapon response scenario. They were justified in making that shot,” Seraphin says.

However, he explains that it’s not exactly what happens during the shooting that poses the problem with the handling of the situation. Rather, what had happened before.

“The decisions of the investigation that went on before it and the decision to send SWAT into this guy’s presence,” Seraphin says, “those can be bad decisions.”

Glenn is not pleased.

“I’m disgusted by this whole thing, and I still believe what the guy did was wrong, and he should have expected the FBI to show up,” Glenn says.

However, he notes, “He’s 75 years old. He is obese. Five, four, three hundred pounds. He can’t get up out of a chair without a walking stick or a cane. He walks with a cane. He’s got a blind son who just had a stroke. And you use basically a tank to come in through his front window.”

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