Ryan Frederick vs Chesapeake

The Ryan Frederick case in Chesapeake has national level attention. Reason Online has an article about the tragedy and talks about the questions people have about the police and their policy of SWAT raids.

Kim du Toit has a short opinion piece at his site and brings up a point that you don't see in the news. Nowhere else have I seen the report the Ryan Frederick may have been growing this plant. Look familiar? They tend to be found next to koi ponds. Like the one in Ryan Frederick's back yard.
The comments bring up other issues, such as the capability of the round that reportedly killed the policeman. Would it have penetrated a door and kept enough force to kill him, if the story of Ryan firing through the door is accurate?

From Reason's article:

One of the plants Frederick told the local television station he raised was the Japanese maple, a plant that, when green, has leaves that look quite a bit like marijuana leaves.

So far, Chesapeake police have given no indication that they did any investigation to corroborate the tip from their informant. There's no mention in the search warrant of an undercover drug buy from Frederick or of any extensive surveillance of Frederick's home.

More disturbingly, the search warrant says the confidential informant was inside Frederick's house three days before the raid—about the same time Frederick says someone broke into his home. Frederick's supporters have told me that Frederick and his attorney now know the identity of the informant, and that it was the police informant who broke into Frederick's home.

Since when does the law allow POLICE INFORMANTS to gather "evidence" by BREAKING INTO YOUR HOME?

The state needs to take this case over from the local authorities. Since a policeman was killed and the police story seems to change with every telling, an impartial investigator is needed to to get to the bottom of this case.