Again — low margin for error:

A SWAT team member was shot early on Wednesday during a raid in East County.

Six people were detained after a drug raid at a home in the 4000 block of North Bonita Street in Casa de Oro, authorities told NBC 7/39.

Officials said the officer was hurt when he tripped in the messy yard and accidentally shot himself in the foot.

In raids I’ve researched in which a SWAT officer is shot, about half the time the bullet comes not from the suspect, but from another officer, or from the wounded cop himself.

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