Sergeant Chip Huth’s special weapons and tactics (SWAT) team had just successfully arrested an armed felon in a Kansas City, Missouri, drug house. The suspect was brought to the porch of the house as Sergeant Huth’s team searched the premises and a middle-aged woman approached, screaming profanities. A crowd began to gather. “She began screaming a stream of profanities at me,” said Huth, “questioning my right to be on her property and to have her son in handcuffs.”1 The more she became irrational, the closer her neighbors began move to the police. She was, Huth sensed, rapidly gaining the support of the crowd.
