Also in the new sift version the video is cut in half although it still has all the good bits. You can see it here if you want the proper size. https://www.facebook.com/jack.hulme.33/videos/vb.100000216373817/1926464184037442/?type=2&theater
or you can watch it in the old sift version which is also properly sized https://videosift.com/video/Thats-One-Way-To-Escape-A-Police-Raid?vs6=optout

Someone studied Breaking Bad.

Is there additional background to this?

To me, three cops says regular "visit", but the application of a battering ram kinda screams "we expect violence/resistence". Over here, three cops would sit on the house until a locksmith arrives, not bust the door like barbarians. Or there would be a dozen of them, masked, guns drawn and at the ready.

Only other thing i saw was that two others in the house were arrested. Not that i looked very hard. http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/northwest/15525219.Video_of_man_leaping_from_upstairs_window_and_escaping_as_police_raid_house_goes_viral/

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So the old version of the sift is better than the new version? That should really get looked into.