this could just as easily have been handled by one or two men but we are in an age where every cop on the force has to show up no matter what the case just so they can say "I was there." and get a little blood on their spear...
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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No, the chief said, according to the couple — we can’t bring a dog in here; it’s against protocol.
This is a sad story that shows just how clueless the police can be.
They are a bunch of script kiddies that get out their protocol books and follow them to the end
And I guess you can’t blame them. If they don’t and something bad happens they will be burned at the stake. Follow protocol and their a$$ is covered. (Sorry folks, S**t happens).
From the full article, it was the former girlfriend rather than the family who initially called the police and told them he had a gun.
Never call the police on anybody or anything that you wouldn’t want them to kill.
I'm confused. Mr. Reeves says he believed his son should be left alone, or he would "hurt himself," but Mr. Reeves called the police. It sounds as if Mr. Reeves really believed that Austin might hurt somebody else (the ex-girlfriend?) if he were left alone.
“Don’t back me into a corner,” his father remembers Austin saying. “Because I’ll make it go away in four seconds.” To Russell Reeves, the meaning was clear — Austin would hurt himself if he wasn’t left in peace. Stunned and afraid, Reeves dialed the Hingham police just after 10 p.m. to ask for help
“””This is a sad story that shows just how clueless the police can be.”””
They are NOT clueless. They are trained bureaucrat automaton union led quasi military. Incapable, if fully prohibited, to think for themselves. And, they like it that way.
Another snowflake unable to deal with reality in today’s society.
The only surprise is that the police didn’t shoot the dog.
No, the chief said, according to the couple — we can’t bring a dog in here; it’s against protocol.
Thanks. I missed that the father had called as well.
It’s still unclear to me exactly who first brought up his having a gun - former girlfriend? father? police? The article doesn’t specifically say. (While the police appear to have asked, that may have been prompted by the gf or the father.)
Well of course modern police are trained to deal with threats.
When the father told the first responder what his son had said to him the officer understood that a threat had been made on the father’s life. The father had understood a threat of suicide.
Either understanding guaranteed a larger police response but the threat to the father guaranteed a SWAT response.
Thanks to the War On Drugs and Bill Clinton our Peace Officers have be turned in to a paramilitary organization that sees every situation as threat requiring overwhelming force.
This is what happens when people come to accept government killing citizens for no good reason as a normal thing.
Cop h8ters showing up in droves. The usual suspects. Yawn.
CC
Young men have killed themselves over lost love since there has been love.
The issue here is; would this young man have gotten past it alive had the police not forced the issue.
Go find your valium asap..
this could just as easily have been handled by one or two men but we are in an age where every cop on the force has to show up no matter what the case just so they can say "I was there." and get a little blood on their spear...
Yeah I’m a little shocked at some comments. Fact 1. Girlfriend and father called police. Fact 2. He had a gun. Fact 3. Threatened suicide. Assumption 1. Threatened father.
Who in their right mind would think the police would say “ok, we’ll let him get some sleep and check back in the morning? Is this freerepublic or a redirect?
Better to call your clergy...if you have any.
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