In more civilized times, a polite cop would knock on the door and ask to talk to someone. The cops started watching cop movies complete with muscular SWAT teams dressed in ski masks, and started copying Hollywood. It hasn't been right since life started imitating art.
So true, bobad. Let's also interject that the bad guys were behind the door with a snub nosed 32 instead of an AK-47. Welll...I guess there were a few Tommy guns in the roaring 20's.
It seems that the AP story had a lot more detail of the history of the package than CNN.
