Posted on 07/16/2017 11:33:33 AM PDT by Pontiac
HINGHAM — As police cars rolled into his pristine suburban neighborhood last Saturday night, past the sprawling Colonials and manicured lawns, and as dozens of officers from across the region surrounded his home, Russell Reeves begged them again and again to back off.
In a bedroom upstairs his son Austin, 26, was distraught over a breakup. He had told his family he needed time alone. With him was his dog and his 9 mm handgun. If you pressure him, if he feels cornered, Reeves said he told the police, this will end with Austin killing himself.
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“Please,” the frightened father says he asked them, “why can’t you just let him go to sleep?”
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Reeling as the sun rose higher in the summer sky, Austin’s parents tried to understand how a simple police check on their son’s well-being had become an all-night siege.
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As they reached the corner, Harrison turned to look back at her home. Distant enough now to see the entire scene, she realized for the first time the full scale of what was happening: the street thick with police vehicles, teeming with armed officers in SWAT gear.
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“It was totally preventable,” he said, weeping as he stood outside his house looking up at Austin’s window on Tuesday. “He wasn’t a criminal. He didn’t have a hostage. This was a kid distressed about a girlfriend, and they turned it into a life-and-death situation.”
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Thank goodness the girlfriend is safe from this wilting violet of a guy.
Never call the cops to your house. They will show up.
This is the mentality of those who "Serve and Protect.")
Indeed, drunk on a power trip and itching to smack the peasants into line.
A true hater you are. You may as well join Black Lives Matter.
You must be the one that uses the Lord. I’m sure you celebrate every cop that is killed.
I wasn't born like that. I wasn't raised like that. I've lived my life as a law abiding citizen. I wonder what happened to make me such as hater? It couldn't be the "Us against Them" mentality could it? It couldn't be the Blue Wall of Silence that surrounds and protects those "few rotten apples" could it?....I wonder......
This one is on the ex, IMO.
Exactly. Calling the police escalates the emotional environment and raises the stakes.
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