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On an early spring evening, two armored Miami-Dade police vehicles carrying 16 helmeted officers thundered into a middle-class Miami Lakes neighborhood for a raid on a suspected pot dealer. About 10 seconds after the uniformed officers banged a sledgehammer on his front door and forced it open with a crowbar, Michael Santana would be dead. The lead officer, protected by a brightly lit bullet-proof shield, fired three shots into the 27-year-old, who stood in the foyer with a pistol in his hand. Santana's girlfriend, a Hooter’s bartender and Playboy model who witnessed the shooting inside the three-bedroom home, later told authorities that the couple thought they were being robbed when the Miami-Dade Special Response Team came knocking with a search warrant two years ago. Read More |