Posted on 05/02/2014 8:19:32 AM PDT by PaulCruz2016
Metro officers deal with large crowds all the time, but nothing like this. The crowd included former military men and ex-cops, people with various motives, their fingers poised just above the triggers of powerful weapons. With so much firepower in so many hands, a small incident could have set off a bloodbath and left nearly two dozen officers dead.
Assist. Sheriff Joe Lombardo:"We were outgunned, outmanned and there would not have been a good result from it."
I-Team reporter George Knapp: "A lot of scenarios could have played out that would have left a lot of dead officers."
Assist. Sheriff Joe Lombardo: "If you just have a backfire, somebody pops a firecracker, then it's over. We're done. We are going to lose that battle that day."
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Until the firefight starts. Then it gets quite nasty.
I was just doing that and I am surprised at the Ignorance of the case and the sheer bootlicking of morons posting.. They are all good Nazi’s following the Fuhrer-er I mean the Government.
The People are “Fed Up”.
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Can you elaborate a little? Does the post mean that people might join their local PD in non sworn positions and then leave because there are no sworn jobs open? In this case, they could not be ex-cops.
Or do you mean people might join their local PD and decide that this is not what they wanted, but they quit because there are no peace officer jobs elsewhere?
Friend, two thumbs for the POST OF THE MONTH!!!!!
They hire on as officers then after a couple of years decide that they don’t want to be known as a thug after all. I know two men this has happened to in the past six years. One just recently.
So why was the Las Vegas Swat team out there in the first place on a Federal warrant? Hope the County had a Mutual aid agreement in place before hand otherwise that was an illegal use of City Funds.
2 words:
dingy harry
Somehow I don’t think it was the barrel riders in purple shirts which had the JBTs worried.
Next time they will bring dogs and sic them on the people protesting.
“One person in the crowd even asked Jenkins (Sgt Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department) if he was ready to die.”
Well, Sgt? Are you?
I've always been one to side with the police. After all, imagine all the idiots they have to deal with on a daily basis. But that one was an eyebrow-raiser for me.
........while I respect your opinion, I disagree. I was alive and draft age during Kent State. If those mid sixties Ohio National Guardsmen had had 500 ex Army, ex Seals, ex marines and plain ole citizens and cowboys and snipers facing them all armed to the teeth and just madder than hell, Kent State would almost certainly not have happened. They would still even until today have planes with loud speakers low-flying over the Canadian Wilderness blaring out something like “it’s ok, it’s ok, it’s all over, you can come home”.
Now, before a bunch of guardsmen attack me, I’m not putting their service down one iota. It (the guard) has been the main stay in Irag and Afghanistan and is a superbly trained force compared to the mid sixties. For example, back in the sixties, some of the guard and naval reservists, like me, had little training and little motivation to engage in combat with anybody. Many of them (Ohio guardsmen at Kent State) wore peace signs and a flower in their lapel.
My boot camp for example was 2 weeks long. Frankly, one reason guardsmen may have not have ended up in Nam because all hell was breaking out here at home and they were needed here on the homefront.............like Kent State. Anti-war demonstrations today are laughable compared to the all out warfare of some similar motivated demonstrations (Chicago) in the sixties.
Most of these quardsmen back then, like many of us, had low draft #’s and they did not join up so much “to serve” in those days as they did not “to fight” in Vietnam. Much to their/our credit though, thousands fled to Canada and some are still there.
Then too, those young punky lefty college students, or their comrade non student pals, most on dope or worse, were just simply no comparison to the group of tough guys from all over the US that the BLM faced at Bunkerville. Let’s face it, Assistant Sheriff Lomabardo saved the BLM’s ass and many of his guys and himself (by his own admittance) from outright anilhation when he gave the order to turn the cattle loose.
.......yes sir!.........I clearly remember the phrase “the Sheriff of Nottingham” as a kid over a half century ago.....
This wasn't about cattle. And the persistent "Bundy is a criminal!" meme only serves to keep the attention off of where it belongs: this wouldn't have been a war, it would have been a battle in a war that has been going on for some time now. Those people were not there to fight, they were there to fight back. Somebody in "authority" had better start paying attention or this really will spiral out of control. It's already spiraling.
“Assist. Sheriff Joe Lombardo: “If you just have a backfire, somebody pops a firecracker, then it’s over. We’re done. We are going to lose that battle that day.””
Interesting choice of words, considering it wasn’t that long ago that cops killed a couple of teenagers over their car backfiring.
There is no one more jumpy than a cop, and usually it is only his imagination running wild with visions of Robocop.
What I'm wondering about though is what the FReepers who have a very negative view of cops think of the ex-cops who showed up to support Bundy. It seems that in essence, they have become ex-Jack Booted Thugs who were armed and helped face down armed presently employed Jack Booted Thugs. So, are the ex-cops who sided with Bundy still the bad guys?
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