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08-28-2014, 12:49 AM
I would sue the shit out of these people for going through the phone. They have no fucking right to do that
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08-28-2014, 01:43 AM
What I find the most sickening is that these guys are training loaded assault rifles on a guy who is peacefully surrendering and is laying on the floor with his arms spread, even a few minutes after he has done that and just kept frozen like that. Is he going to suddenly grow titanium plating and spring up to rip their throats or what? What necessitates this kind of threat against an ordinary citizen? He should sue them for PTSD.
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08-28-2014, 07:39 AM
Is there a link to the back story as to why the cops were there in the first place? Also, beyond giving his name and maybe answering if there are weapons around why would he say anything else, especially if he is surprised that they are there? I also thought there was some recent supreme court case that going through phones isn't an incidental property search like looking at the change in your pocket....well I guess if they had a warrant?
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08-28-2014, 08:15 AM
Quote: (08-28-2014 07:39 AM)Dr. Howard Wrote:
Is there a link to the back story as to why the cops were there in the first place? Also, beyond giving his name and maybe answering if there are weapons around why would he say anything else, especially if he is surprised that they are there? I also thought there was some recent supreme court case that going through phones isn't an incidental property search like looking at the change in your pocket....well I guess if they had a warrant?
check the link in the first post
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08-28-2014, 09:55 AM
Quote: (08-28-2014 01:43 AM)Zelcorpion Wrote:
Rights? There are so many horror stories of people being SWAT-teamed for bogus reasons, for having read the wrong addresses etc. Sometimes whole interiors are destroyed, innocent people having their teeth kicked in, women and children getting seriously hurt or getting shot (especially if they get the wrong address or a bogus anonymous "tip").
He should be feeling lucky for not having been hurt or dead. SWAT Teams are in my opinion units that would likely be used very rarely, but since so many districts got them nowadays, they cannot let those guys play cards and train for months. They gotta let them work, so any reason is good enough to kick in some doors.
Who knows - they might be really busy in the future bashing in skulls of protesters and "dissidents", as the shit hits the fan.
Still - life creates the best ironies.
A lot of SWAT officers are regular cops with some extra training. They're not "playing cards" on any regular basis.
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08-28-2014, 10:10 AM
I'm not even clear - how do you get someone swatted? Can you just call up the police and say "bomb threat at [address]" and they'll roll out the tanks on them? It's that easy that prankster gamers can call in the fed on one another?
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08-28-2014, 10:40 AM
Them standing on the peaceful kid with their foot on his back pissed me off, as did "you think this is funny" officer's attitude and the bald fuck who thought it was appropriate to turn off the camera without permission.
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08-28-2014, 10:50 AM
Quote: (08-28-2014 10:10 AM)runsonmagic Wrote:
I'm not even clear - how do you get someone swatted? Can you just call up the police and say "bomb threat at [address]" and they'll roll out the tanks on them? It's that easy that prankster gamers can call in the fed on one another?
Spoofing, which is basically creating a false telephone number. Some VOIP programs and calling cards allow you to create your own number to trick local emergency service caller IDs.
If someone wanted to SWAT you they would find out your phone number and where you live, then they'd spoof your number and call your local PD's emergency line. SWATters often pretend to be the target and tell the operators crazy shit like 'I JUST KILLED MY ENTIRE FAMILY. COME AND GET ME, FUCKERS!'
Their ultimate goal is to get the cops to respond with overwhelming force, so they'll always say something serious is going on. If their target's killed by police, even better.
Honestly, anyone who's caught doing that shit should be charged with attempted murder. If the cops do kill the target on accident they need to be charged with felony murder.
By the way, it doesn't just happen to gamers. Some left-wing asshole was doing it to conservative bloggers a while back.
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08-28-2014, 06:15 PM
Quote: (08-28-2014 04:43 PM)jamaicabound Wrote:
Shit how many peoples dogs have been killed or even 96 year old women by cops breaking into the wrong houses and things like that. This is basically all due to the cops being turned into a military type force and being given shit they have no business having as far as weapons and technology. The Federal Government is giving grants to all these dinky ass towns to spend millions on technology and armored carriers and shit they will never ever need. Vice did a doc on this on youtube fairly recently.
One positive thing is I was reading a story on drudge the other day, don't recall where inthe city but the city council was forcing the cops to give back some type of assault vehicle or something like that, they didn't want their police force to be a military unit without adaquete training apparently.
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Towns Say 'No Tanks' to Militarized Police
Growing Unease Over Departments' Use Of Vehicles and Gear Designed for Battle
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High Springs, Fla., police officer James Field exits an MRAP—an armored, mine-resistant ambush-protected military vehicle—now owned by his department. Gainesville Sun /Landov
Residents in some towns have begun standing up to the large armored vehicles that local police departments are receiving from the federal government.
Six-figure grants from the Department of Homeland Security have been funding BearCats and other heavily fortified vehicles in towns and cities nationwide since soon after the 2001 terrorist attacks. Beginning last summer, the government also has handed out 200 surplus vehicles built to withstand mines and bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan, and is considering requests from 750 more communities.
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08-29-2014, 02:41 AM
Well, as long as it wasn't SWAT 4. Also, the game in the video looks like it's Counter Strike: GO. That has absolutely nothing to do with a SWAT team in the level that is displayed in the video; that map looks like Dust and the player is part of the IDF.
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08-29-2014, 02:44 AM
what's up with a guy with a backpack?
I am sure those guys were just excited to gear up, knock down the door and yell swat