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TIL of Ryan Frederick: A Virginia man who shot a cop during a no knock raid on his home in the middle of the night looking for a cannabis grow operation. Frederick thought it was a burglar and the cops only found a koi pond and Japanese maples and a small amount of cannabis. He was given 10 years.

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