The front door was open, but they still felt the need to throw to flash bang grenades, one through a window.
It appears that a grandmother and teen should own the police department.
The reflexive response seems tailor-made for an act of terrorism. All a terrorist needs to do is find a house with an unsecured wifi, post messages from that IP making threats against the police and local politicians, then wait for the response from a distant sniper position.
Grannie just won the lottery with the local news filming the whole thing.
Black booted thugs. The law enforcement have resources to prove who live in the house. The census could be referred to. A common stake out could have been used. Other methods.
No these black boot thugs, they wanted to use their new world order tactics that they have been practicing and show the media and the other serfs and the kingdom who were in charge. These were NOT law enforcement, these were thugs.
Well, it backfired. Time to charge the moat, people.
Yah....so why not park an unmarked car at the end of the street and wait for someone to come out to go to the store?
What is it with these SWAT teams? They legitimize the talk they’re scared of.....
That's a scary-ass thought right there!!!
You know that wil never happen. The police will have been found to have "followed departmental guidelines." The victims were lucky they weren't murdered by the police, because if they were the murderers would not be prosecuted.
The problem is that there are not enough car chases for these guy to get their rocks off on.
They love car chases, If a chase starts they can all go balls to the wall to join it. 15 cars screaming around with lights and sirens chasing one teen aged kid, and beating the crap out of him at the end of it.
The next best thing is dressing up in their SWAT stuff, armed to the teeth and tearing down a Grandmothers door.
Maybe they will get to put 25 or 30 bullets in a Marine Veteran, and kill his dog too.
Remember when the police advertised that they were your friends?Now the thing to remember is that they are not your friends and anything you say or do will be used against you.
Be careful what you say without your attorney present.
This should be banned. There are multiple examples of tragedies caused or exacerbated by cops playing to the camera.
Does anybody think the decision to use the flash-bangs was not influenced by their cinematic value?
An 18 year-old grandma. Interesting.
Gramdma can consider herself veru fortunate that she was not shot full of holes and killed graveyard dead. Ditto to everyone else who might have been in the house. The way things are going, it won’t be very long before the SWAT teams use fragamentation grenades instead of conclussion grenades, a/k/a “flash bangs”.
Just think if Grandma had been lighting a cigarette with a lighter shaped like a gun as they busted in. She would have been shot dead.
I’m surprised their dog or the neighbor’s wasn’t shot.
Well, if you are making specific threats to murder people and commit acts of terrorism, then yeah, that is an instance I can see where the SWAT team approach might be warranted. One of the very few instances.
That said, they need a lot less gestapo and a lot more information gathering.
“To bring a whole SWAT team seems a little excessive,” says Milan.
Authorities say it should prove their point, though.
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OH Yeah. Their point. Which is.. ?
So, a few people post online comments in response to an apparent police abuse story. In response to online comments, the police break into the home of innocent citizens who are minding their own business.
Typical government incompetency, I suppose.
Yet if any non-police officer would take the same remark (don’t care about myself, your lady or your kids), they would tell the person with the report to come back when the person actually *did* something.