Posted on 06/05/2015 8:02:12 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
Quite possible. I’ve restored/rebuilt hundreds of homes damaged by fire and contents items are often hard to find. Sometimes they apparently get accidentally mixed in with debris and thrown away. Or possibly cops or workers pocket them.
None of that seems out of the ordinary for a SWAT operation, but I don't think I've ever seen this kind of structural damage caused by flash-bangs.
Wouldn’t be surprised if drugs were not involved. Spiked donuts, perhaps.
And miraculously landed in a policeman's pocket.
I doubt that the Justice Department makes the Police Departments do anything they do not want to.
This is what happens when you give local cops military toys.
They will not miss an opportunity or excuse to use them.
I first worked with Leo about 20 years ago, and he’s always been pretty easy going. So his level of upset here is sincere and understandable.
The best way to mentally accommodate the behavior of cops in 2015 is to think of them as ants.
Ants leave the nest, follow scent trails, and swarm relentlessly any object of interest, bringing in more and more ants as needed.
That is the entirety of the approach used by police.
The homeowner said it right. (If this were a free country)big they would have cleard the neighborhood and waited him
out for a couple of days, then gone in with a squad and a battering ram. Blowing up the house, apparently trying to kill the bad guy with explosives- these were in no way “flash-bangs’ - these yahoos were just trying ouit some of their neat federal stuff. Perhaps they were deputized into the Jade Helm op.
Before the early 1970’s,how could law enforcement successfully apprehend felons without S.W.A.T. teams? Hmmmm..
You've got that right, those shoplifters are a menace to our entire society. After they are through with the electronics section at Walmart, they will be killing the entire student population of the local elementary school.
A single shoplifter, armed with a pistol, surrounded by police. What exactly is the threat to the neighborhood? Of course, the orange juice and pop toasters in that house are probably goners, but everyone else in the neighborhood have never been better protected in their lives.
Patience should prevail, unless waiting the guy out becomes impossible.
Test.
wait until it is you and your house that are on the receiving end and then see what you say.
Specifically who here is pro-criminal?
Yeah, well, I try to be on the side of reason which pretty much makes me an anachronistic outcast where ever I go these days. lol
Seacat had access to weapons, and CBS4 cameras were rolling as he allegedly shot at officers Wednesday night.
“After several hours of negotiations, members of Greenwood Village Police Department Emergency Response Team entered the home, and.... “the suspect fired multiple gunshots at the officers,” police said in a statement released Thursday afternoon.
“At 8:52 a.m. … officers and deputies entered the home again and safely removed the suspect from the home.”
Witness.... Farrow said.... “I think they needed to do what they needed to do because he was armed and not going to come out peacefully, and there were weapons in the house.”
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/06/04/homes-in-greenwood-village-evacuated-lengthy-standoff/
Records from the arresting agency show that Robert Seacat, of Douglas County, was taken into custody May 16, 2014 on a court hold in Colorado....According to information collected by Colorado Weekly, Robert Seacat appears to have been arrested 1 other time, dating back to June 2014.
Has a drug history.. failure to comply with probation officer and terms of probation...served time thereafter in 2008...
I know JUST how you feel!!!
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