“There’s no reason that you can’t announce that it’s the police coming into your door in the middle of the night.”
A bill that would create a uniform policy of banning no-knock police raids statewide is advancing in the Texas Legislature.
Usually police would announce themselves before they bust in, but under a no-knock warrant they could enter someone’s home without warning, or knock the door down covertly. The proposed law comes after a no-knock warrant ended tragically in 2019 in Houston.