Police were doing surveillance on someone Joshua Bennett knew, working up a case she was trafficking drugs.
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A week later, at 7 a.m. on a bitterly cold morning, police stormed Bennett's home.
Officers in commando gear bashed in a door and used an armoured vehicle to smash through the living room window, Bennett and his partner, Jennifer Hacker, say.
"And all of a sudden, you heard all this 'bang, bang, bang' going off in the house," Hacker recounted in an interview last week. "It sounds like we were being shot at, and it was tear gas that they were shooting into our house." Officers had also set off a stun grenade, she said.
As their home filled with throat-burning smoke, Bennett and Hacker scampered to their garage. They opened the door to the outside and were greeted by guns pointed at their heads by a team of tactical officers.
