” Antoine Davis....a former Marine who served in Iraq, became belligerently drunk......got his gun, an assault rifle outfitted with a suppressor.....”
So the journalist makes sure to detail out Antoine was an alcohol abusing war vet Marine with a suppressed assault weapon BUT neglected to mention his race (black)and that of his wife (white)....which one COULD argue was as irrelevant as his past military service, type of gun owned, the attached suppressor (if it was real) EXCEPT the journalist detailed out all those. So no argument.
This obfuscating weasel wording PC BS is the moral equivalent of a lie.
Just give us the FACTS to the extent you have room to do so or shut up entirely.
Oh, it was just keen that SWAT could try out their robo toy. Sad they didn’t read the manual and knew it wouldn’t climb standard run stairs and was therefore a waste of PRECIOUS time. But it got on camera!
13 hours before entry? Columbine redux on steroids. So much for 911.
Had Antoine dissed the mayor on his Facebook, or heck, even if his neighbor had dissed the mayor on HIS Facebook, they would have been shooting the dog, slugging the hinges and flash banging the baby in less than 30 seconds from roll-up.
Yes, as I used to teach building entry/clearing against armed individuals. I know the CURRENT rules. Cops lives first. Citizens lives last.
In today’s world the small risk of injury to a few of a dozen or so heavily armored and trained warrior wannabes vastly outweighs the much higher and real risk to the lives of a mother and baby.
13 hours. Mother dead. Baby in toilet with head trauma. 13 hours.
But I don’t feel strongly about it and besides, what the heck do I know.
What's the point of having police and SWAT,if they refuse to enter any situation unless there is zero risk to THEM?