Posted on 02/02/2021 8:32:09 AM PST by USA Conservative
There are unconfirmed reports that three agents were shot and killed and two wounded while serving a warrant at a Sunrise home. A large contingent of law enforcement officers gathered outside the Fort Lauderdale hospital where shooting victims were taken, according to television video.
The Sunrise Police Department tweeted about the heavy police presence, noting that several roads were closed in the area.
News outlets reported that Sunrise police at the scene said FBI agents were injured while serving an arrest warrant in a child pornography case, and that a man was still barricaded inside a home in the suburb of Fort Lauderdale.
After barricading himself in the home for several hours, the suspected gunman is believed to have shot and killed himself, one law-enforcement source said.
Sunrise police said the suspect, a man suspected of child pornography possession, had holed up in his home at 10100 Reflections Blvd. West. Nob Hill Road is closed in both directions from Northwest 44th Street to Oakland Park Boulevard.
The shooting happened around 6 a.m. The child pornography case was being investigated by the FBI and prosecuted by federal prosecutors in Fort Lauderdale.
Davie police were at the scene along with the FBI because it is routine while executing a search warrant to have a marked police car parked outside the home of the target. Police from other agencies swarmed the area after the shooting.
When the FBI child-porn squad arrived at the Sunrise residence on Tuesday morning, the agents were carrying out a routine search warrant to seize the suspect’s computer and other evidence, according to law enforcement sources.
The FBI obtained the internet protocol address for the suspect’s computer from an internet service provider and then matched that with the suspect’s physical address. Depending on the evidence found on the suspect’s home, the FBI and federal prosecutors would have likely filed a criminal complaint charging him with some type of child pornography charge, sources said.
Tuesday’s shootings of the FBI agents may rival the deadliest in the bureau’s history — a bloody shootout between a group of agents and a pair of bank robbers in South Miami-Dade nearly 35 years ago.
Were they arresting the managers of the Lincoln Project??
Reminds me of the ATF of at WACO.
In before posters arrive to trash the FBI.
Prayers for the souls of the dead and for the injured.
The next door neighbor using the open wifi might want to delete those spank banks.
Can't imagine that is ever considered "routine".
Sorry, I just can’t get this to register on my give a darn meter.
Maybe one of these days LEO’s will learn that pre-dawn flash and bang raids are maybe not a good idea.
Oh well.
Possibly Hunter Biden?
Did his name rhyme with “Darter Rage”?
Child Porn is the go-to charge for insurrectionists.
Here comes the gun grab...didn’t take long.
FBI is a real threat to freedom and needs to be disbanded, defunded and done away with. Is that trashy enough?
Are these the same feds that committed sedition for years with ZERO accountability?
Asking for a friend...
I know I should be concerned, but given what the FBI has become, the KGB arm of the dem party, with the likes of Comey, McCabe, Strozk, etc., who no doubt hired underlings in their image, I'm having a hard time working up a lot of sympathy.
So Biden is a really good shot? Cool!
If, after the last 5 years, the FIBBERS spend the next decade NOT enforcing the law with political bias, I’ll give a damn again.
This is a terrible tragedy.
It was a freaking served warrant. NO JUSTIFICATION FOR ANY FORCE!
My heart goes out to the agents and their families.
This is senseless.
Wait. So is is this “BREAKING” or “unconfirmed”? Or is it “BREAKING unconfirmed”?
Was it Hunter Biden’s home?
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