Amazing. It's stolen from a cop, and they correctly identify it as a benign-sounding semi-auto rifle. If this was stolen from a citizen, I'm sure it'd be just as you described. Gotta give the local station some credit here for their characterization of the rifle.
More like sickening IMHO. They want to keep the public from having them and then LEO goes out and arm themselves to the teeth complete with ninja teams. I will bet it was a class 3 M16 that they got from one of those cushy govt grant programs to "help" local pd's.