[Texasforever]

So every time someone is murdered in this country, some 25,000 times a year, it's an emergency situation requiring suspension of due process and civil liberties

Straw man argument. This was a police emergency in a localized area and they set up roadblocks armed with witness reports that a "white van" was seen in close proximity to the shooting. There are only 2 slim clues in these attacks; they are the caliber of the rifle and the ubiquitous "white van". When someone is murdered in this country and a description of a vehicle leaving the scene is known then the cops look for and stop every vehicle that matches the description that they encounter in their jurisdictions. This entire thread is nothing but an attempt to make this into some kind of police state scenario when in reality it is a scenario that has been in place for the entire history of law enforcement.

[TigersEye]

This was a police emergency in a localized area and they set up roadblocks armed with witness reports that a "white van" was seen in close proximity to the shooting.

Given that there is at least one white van on every block and every quarter mile of urban road in this country and it wasn't said that the perp had one, just that there was one in the proximity of the crime that's incredibly lame.

[The Red Zone]

If we had an eye in the sky somehow, which could zoom in on the site of a sniping the instant it was reported. That would eliminate this Chinese fire drill looking for the white van.