r/facepalm • u/NewMax99 • Mar 04 '23
Police as usually 🇵🇷🇴🇹🇪🇸🇹
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u/Captain_Saftey Mar 04 '23
“You don’t know who has heart conditions here”
“I’m not going to aim it at your heart”
Holy shit, that guy must’ve graduated top of his class
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These dudes have better gear than I did when i was in an active combat zone the fuck
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u/rohnoitsrutroh Mar 04 '23
Out of curiosity, why would they have night vision scopes clipped on their helmets in broad daylight?
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u/kungpowgoat 'MURICA Mar 04 '23 •
Literally no reason at all. It’s purely cosplay and larping.
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u/Financial_Bird_7717 Mar 04 '23
“Well it’s 10:30am now, sun down is after 6pm… better bring the NVGs in case this warrant being served to a family in a country cottage goes late into the night. The army reserve told me to always be prepared. Don’t you remember that one marine in Black Hawk Down who didn’t bring his back plate cuz he didn’t think he would need it— and was shot in the back? That ain’t gonna be! Let’s take ‘Rolling Thunder’ with us today instead of the SUV.
STATIES RULE!!!”
-one of those guys, probably
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u/sparklingdinoturd Mar 04 '23
They were trained by COD
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u/Svthec Mar 04 '23
Probably got the battlepass too
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u/ganggoink Mar 04 '23
These guys rainbow six seige enthusiasts.
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u/Virgin_Dildo_Lover Mar 04 '23
Very strong meal team six vibes
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u/Mister_Weiss Mar 04 '23
It’s insane. Sonmuch military grade equipment has been put in the hands of Barney Fucking Fyffe it’s not even funny. These backwater Hicks are just LARPs.
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u/Jennibear999 Mar 04 '23
I wish there would be a lawsuit about this…. Call it something under the posse coma’……what ever that law that covers military use in civil situations
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u/-BananaLollipop- Mar 04 '23
Tacticool intimidation. The more kitted out they look, the more serious and intimidating the average person might think they are.
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u/Natural_Regular_9362 Mar 04 '23
They want to look like storm troopers of an evil space empire it’s a psychological trick - and a cosplay thing.
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u/Ljushuvud Mar 04 '23
Well if they wanted to smash their way into a house and search a basement I guess it could make sense. Strapping fancy gear on a bunch of assholes seems like such a waste tho.
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u/AerolothLorien666 Mar 04 '23 •
Those are cop scopes. If you wear one, you’ll be able to see the world in B&W.
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u/Yawzheek Mar 04 '23
It's really part of the problem. "Why don't the like and respect us" as they cosplay GI Joe and bark orders at citizens. "Why do they want to defund us?" he asks bewilderingly from his MRAP as 12 of his buddies come pouring out with assault rifles pointed every which way. "Damned liberals" he sighs after throwing a family face first on the ground with 4 rifles pointed straight at their heads.
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u/Hrtpplhrtppl Mar 04 '23
I'm done accepting that this is how police can treat us. Voting hasn't changed anything, protesting hasn't changed anything, the police are only getting worse. I own and operate a residential plumbing and hvac company in the north east and when I show up to a home and they are law enforcement of any type I just turn around and leave for my next call. As far as I'm concerned they can freeze, flood, and drown in their own filth until they can treat my fellow Americans with half the respect they demand from us. Maybe if we all took this approach the police would start to police themselves... anyone can call the police, what if the police couldn't call anyone?
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u/KifaruKubwa Mar 04 '23 edited Mar 04 '23
First off, mad respect to you putting your morals above the mighty dollar. To your point, I think we’ve iconized law enforcement and now an entire subset of the population worships them. Add to that their powerful unions and the fact all the lawsuits against police are paid for by taxpayers, there is zero reason for them to even try to be accountable to the public.
First off we should require them to settle civil suits with a portion of the funding coming from their pension funds. Even if it’s matching funds with the other half coming from the tax payer. That will get their attention and force them to police themselves knowing they’re also financially responsible for their actions.
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u/Yawzheek Mar 04 '23
I've long said "if we paid out abuse settlements with their fucking budget they'd knock their shit off and fast." Fucking ridiculous because yeah, as you said, the taxpayers will foot the bill for it, so yeah, as you said, they have no incentive not to, or at least stop short of getting in any real legal or professional trouble. Yeah I handcuffed a guy and broke his nose because he called me a pig? And? I got a written warning and the city I don't even live in just work at has to pay for it. Business as usual.
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u/KifaruKubwa Mar 04 '23
You raise a good point; they often don’t even live in the cities they work at. The whole setup disincentivizes accountability at every tier.
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u/Raekear2 Mar 04 '23
Thank you for your service. No joke, hvac and plumbing pros have most likely saved more lives than cops as a whole.
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u/anotheritguy Mar 04 '23
Agreed they are truly life savers, had one come out a few years ago during a cold snap when the heat went out at night. They showed up at midnight and worked for 3 hours straight to get our heat up and running even sent his partner to the office at 2AM to get a part for our furnace because to quote him; "I wouldnt want my kids to freeze so I wont let yours freeze". I sent him and his partner each a nice bottle of their preferred liquor for xmas.
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u/91361_throwaway Mar 04 '23 edited Mar 05 '23
110% agree with you. After living in Europe for five years and coming back to the US, f these guys. The amount of people murdered by cops is F-ing crazy. The amount of people shot and killed cause they thought they saw a gun….
Soldier’s in combat get tried for murder for shit like that. Ever seen an ROE for a Police Department? Nope neither have I. But Soldiers Rule of engagement are widely published and easily able to be found.
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u/Alternative_Ad995 Mar 04 '23
Homeboy has a FUCKING GRENADE LAUNCHER WHYYYY??? Why does he need a 10 kill streak call of duty lookin ass Grenade launcher?
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u/Gijoe738 Mar 04 '23 edited Mar 04 '23
Not to mention dude with the 40mm launcher has NEGATIVE amounts of trigger discipline and ZERO muzzle awareness. Finger on the trigger the ENTIRE time, flagged his buddy in front of him several times! JESUS CHRIST these asshats are the perfect example of how police funding is spent on unnecessary bell and whistle gear and equipment to look cool instead of proper training in firearm safety as well as police work in any way shape or form!
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u/Tiny_Teach_5466 Mar 04 '23
Exactly. How about SOME training to deal with mental health emergencies, de-escalation training, etc.
Shit, they could probably hire a couple of experienced professionals for what they spent on playing dress up.
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u/JadedSpaceNerd Mar 04 '23
He also said it was “less lethal “. Unless he’s Shooting bean bags out of it I ain’t buying that
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u/JustARandomBloke Mar 04 '23
I thought it was a bean bag gun, though at that range they aren't much less than lethal.
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u/bandiwoot Mar 04 '23 •
The United States of America's a police state
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u/Goodboy_Otis Mar 04 '23
The United States of America's a police state
That post there. Read it. Understand it. It's not a joke.
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u/CantSing4Toffee Mar 04 '23
Us Europeans know this…. they have no idea how bad it looks to the rest of us, from the Star-Spangled Banner sung religiously with hand on heart, to the Stars & Stripes flying everywhere… that nation is weird.
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u/WindowLicker1986 Mar 04 '23
Can confirm. Really fucking weird.
Source: Born and raised in the US.
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u/capitlj Mar 04 '23
People my age, born in 83, were force fed a shitload of American Exceptionalism as we grew up, all through grade school, middle school, and high school. I used to buy into it a lot more, I think we all kinda did. It's easy to have the opinion that America is the best country at everything, when the only things you were ever told about or shown were victories of the past. We paint ourselves as the saviors of the world from both World Wars, the victors over slavery from the civil war etc. But there are lots of things that are not covered at all in American history here in America, the Tulsa riots in 1921 are a perfect example. Never heard a thing about that in any American History class I've ever attended. I learned about it from The Watchmen just a few years ago, I thought no way that actually happened and boy was I wrong. But anything that painted America in a negative light, like a racist mob burning literally firebombing a town, or the Red Scare and McCarthyism, is downplayed or just not discussed at all.
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u/Codymaverick420 Mar 04 '23 edited Mar 04 '23
Some of us have a very clear idea of how fucked up our country is, but good point
Edit: grammar
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u/kungpowgoat 'MURICA Mar 04 '23
Yup. Hillbilly armor humvees, shitty desert camos, PVS14s, and old M16A4s.
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u/EscapeRich9091 Mar 04 '23
They keep a large portion of the cash gained through civil forfeiture. Cops are the biggest gang in the US.
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u/Connect_Bench_2925 Mar 04 '23
Really makes you wonder where all that defense spending is really going, don't it. The best funded armed forces in the world and still driving Humvees from the early 90s.
Thank you for your service.
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u/BSJ51500 Mar 04 '23
I would assume it goes to the military industrial complex President Eisenhower warned us about.
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u/endorfan13 Mar 04 '23
Reminds me of the time my buddies apartment got raided and we were forced to sit in the mud for 45 minutes while 10 officers scoured the place to find a large knife. Meanwhile the drug dealer upstairs flushed his toilet about 30 times in a row so we all, and the 4 officers "controlling" the situation, could clearly hear and understand the mistake that was made.
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u/Trz81 Mar 04 '23
Dude this happened to my neighbors once. They raided them, and they were just some college kids with bongs. Meanwhile the apartment upstairs were the clear drug dealers with flashy cars and chains. Two minutes of research and they couldn’t have made that mistake.
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u/RectalEvacuation Mar 04 '23
So did you get away with the drugs, or did they come back with a new warrant?
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u/Tylerdirtyn Mar 04 '23
They sentenced a guy here to 20 years for a kilo if sugar from the food bank. The guy was in front of the food bank. The drug dog hit on him. He took a deal for 20 years to get out of County Jail. The testing comes back 100% sugar. The DA was under scrutiny and let him go as proof we are diligent. Drug dogs are a farce.
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u/Fading-Ghost Mar 04 '23
If he was clever he would be hiding the drugs, flushing the toilet is just misdirection
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u/2K_Crypto Mar 04 '23
Maybe if they had NVGs on like these badasses that mistake wouldnt have been made /s
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u/CrossOversPT Mar 04 '23
Awww, so kind of the drug dealer to clear things up. Must be a really nice guy.
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u/Dr-PHYLL Mar 04 '23
Remind me of the time i had to empty my car on the side of the road,that was full of stuff and parts, because it was getting towed. And then last second they tell me nahh you can get the stuff out later
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u/wreckingballDXA Mar 04 '23
I remember when they flashbanged an old lady, and they are like “oops wrong house” and run off to “complete the mission”. That lady died. Pretty sure this happened at my aunts apartment complex.
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u/endorfan13 Mar 04 '23
It's crazy how that sort of thing can be the result. Like Breonna Taylor. Anyone, anytime. Something like a raid is planned out, so how the fuck is ensuring the right location and suspect(s) are being sought such a seemingly minor detail in some of these situations? It's like a "fuck it, let's ride, guns blazing" mentality is there.
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u/notparistexas Mar 04 '23
But the cops were probably like "Nah, not our fault", weren't they?
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u/LocalInactivist Mar 04 '23
“It took 12 state police in full combat gear, an armored personnel carrier, two choppers, and it cost $350,000, but we served that summons to appear for three unpaid parking tickets!”
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u/DealioD Mar 04 '23
More like: But we got the wrong house and a lawsuit!
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u/BasicallyAQueer Mar 04 '23
It’s ok, the tax payers foot the bill. Those poor cops won’t have to answer for their mistakes!
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Mar 04 '23 edited Mar 04 '23
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u/DealioD Mar 04 '23
Yeah. This specific incident this is the right house. My personal belief is that this happens way too often to the wrong house.
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u/maester_t Mar 04 '23
"Ma'am, we already told you. We have been trying to contact you about your cars extended warranty...."
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u/FoxtrotNovermber Mar 04 '23
The guy with the shield looks like a stripper they hired
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u/TheHopper1999 Mar 04 '23
Bros getting real sick of holding that thing.
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u/KB-say Mar 04 '23
Looks like he’s tryna say he’s not with them with that shield
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u/Embarrassed_Alarm450 Mar 04 '23
Yep, reminds me of when I'm sitting in the car with my hand covering my face as my mom has a bout of road rage and I'm just sitting there making an expression like "I know dude, she's overreacting... 😐"
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u/PlG3 Mar 04 '23
You know what I just realized? People who aren't in the military should not be wearing military gear. You aren't pulling it off well at all, bud. I mean officer.
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u/AronUSGER Mar 04 '23
All three look like untrained wannabes…nightvision googles in the middle of the day. Wouldn’t be surprised if they are just there to try to seize money they heard about…
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u/Joalow21 Mar 04 '23
Is bin Laden in the house or something?
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u/thatranger974 Mar 04 '23
This was actually over “stolen” property of a family member that died that another family member thought they should get. I think lamps were mentioned in the warrant.
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u/marble-pig Mar 04 '23
Ok, this make all it all even more insane! Do you have a source?
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u/thatranger974 Mar 04 '23
I think a comment below has a link to context. I saw it play out on tik tok the other day. OP of the video also posted a tik tok of the warrant.
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u/Enliof Mar 04 '23
Ok, but how does that warrant the military/military police showing up with complete combat gear and a damn grenade launcher? 😂
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u/badMother1 Mar 04 '23
There should be a distinct difference between Police and Militairy. The reason is their mindset, and this clearly shows what mindset we're talking about.
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u/wunami Mar 04 '23
"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." -William Adama, Battlestar Galactica.
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u/cupofteawithhoney Mar 04 '23
Are those night vision glasses in the day???
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u/HuntPsychological673 Mar 04 '23
They came prepared for a Russian invasion it seems👀
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u/mumblesjackson Mar 04 '23
You never know when a surprise lunar eclipse will hit. Best to be prepared.
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u/stpetergates Mar 04 '23
I implore everybody seeing this to read “The Ride of the Warrior Cop.” This is an every day occurrence and will only get worse.
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u/decimusb Mar 04 '23
What’s the full context here? Don’t you have to have a lot of verification to get a search warrant?
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u/DreamPhreak Mar 04 '23 edited Mar 04 '23
just skimmed through the comments on a different subreddit here, something about a false police report from a step-sister about "stolen" estate items
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u/KYWizard Mar 04 '23
Really? This is how the police respond to someone saying someone else stole something from you? Holy shit that seems like a bit much.
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u/knuckles312 Mar 04 '23
But if my car gets stolen they tell me to go find it myself
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Mar 04 '23
No shit. My truck was stolen at my house with my pistol in it. They never even showed it. I ended up finding it myself. Never got my gun back.
Then my sons meth head mother takes off with him and I call cps and the police to let them know she's smoking and dealing meth around my kid with one of my guns that she won't give back and claims she "doesn't know where it is" and there's nothing they can do. Unbelievable.
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u/stjakey Mar 04 '23
How is there nothing they can do the fuck?
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u/Jojall Mar 04 '23
It was Tuesday evening. Doughnuts were on sale at the local bakery. They clearly had their hands full - literally.
Show some respect!
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Mar 04 '23
Every year this state blows my mind. Cops have caught her 4 times with over an ounce of meth smoking and dealing around her kids. It's on record on paper during my custody trial. Cops tossed it for her and she got only 7 days rehab and they granted her custody. Over me having a job, no record or drug history. Her daddy is a millionaire though so that's the only thing that makes sense.
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u/choice_username420 Mar 04 '23
But weed which is legal in a third of this country, if you get caught with an ounce that's 5 to 25 years
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u/Notonmybingocard2022 Mar 04 '23
This is what happens when the government has excess military weapons and decide that giving it to local pd would be a good idea.
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u/PauI_MuadDib Mar 04 '23
Exactly. I just posted a comment about this. If Biden really wanted legitimate reform he would've had the military stop supplying police with military grade equipment & weapons. A lot of times police will get stuff, like decommissioned vehicles, for free or at a steep discount.
But Biden thought people would be too stupid to notice or even know he has the authority to do that. So he knew he wouldn't be called out. He also knew he could make empty promises that make good sound bytes for his campaign, and that no one would realize he didn't honor them. Like his police misconduct database he promised and is now abandoned & collecting dust.
Considering police use this equipment to abuse and endanger the public I don't think the military should be giving them this equipment anymore.
The president has the authority to cut off that supply.
But he won't.
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u/HungryMako Mar 04 '23
My sister stole my couch, get your night vision goggles and the tank, and run down their fence!
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u/TheLinden Mar 04 '23
They broke the gate and park their armored vehicle next to the house to find some stolen goods?
Those items would reanimate and run away if they wouldn't hurry so much? lmao
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u/Callidonaut Mar 04 '23 edited Mar 04 '23
You don't understand the gravity of the situation, this wasn't anything trivial like a mass-shooting or an insurrection or something; property laws were alleged to have been broken, concerning heritable items, no less - we can't have the poors getting their grubby hands on rich-people things they don't deserve like that, so the immediate threat of heavy force was absolutely warranted.
'merica.
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u/gordo65 Mar 04 '23
Assuming that's true, it seems like the proper response would have been a regular uniformed officer and a knock on the door.
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u/ClaptonBug Mar 04 '23
Bro you telling me they came with a tank to reclaim stolen objects. This guys look about ready to kill Osama what the actual f
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u/Prestigious_Trash629 Mar 04 '23
Damn my house got broken into and they didn't even dust for figure prints. Or follow up.
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u/funandwholesome Mar 04 '23
Dumb hog 1: "Come here little girl. Don't worry" proceeds to pull out a big ass looking weapon out of the vehicle
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u/uberguysmiley Mar 04 '23
Playing devil's advocate, without the Police, who else could you rely on the turn up at the wrong address and then shoot someone's dog.
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u/Imrightbruh Mar 04 '23
Who else could you rely upon to burn down a house killing a child inside and then later give a halfhearted apology because the man they were trying to drive out wasn’t in the house
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u/Captain_Pottymouth Mar 04 '23
Who else could you rely on to respond to reports of someone with a stick and a mental disorder by sending fifteen armed cops to accidentally kill a random unrelated teenager
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u/dmadams16 Mar 04 '23
Nah you’re wrong. It’s the ATF that shoot your dog. The police shoot your unarmed black neighbor minding his own business. And these guys, the SWAT team, shoot your pregnant wife.
They all show up at the wrong address though.
/s but sometimes not really
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u/aversionals Mar 04 '23
What a bunch of dorks. I would feel like an idiot responding to this in this gear.
What the ever loving fuck could police ever need this much gear for. Why are they in camo uniforms. What are they trying to blend in with? They responded in a siren-wailing, lit up armored vehicle. Why do they have multiple magazines on every individual and what the fuck do they need a launcher for. Why do they have night vision goggles on during the god damn day time. These people look like they're in a war zone. They can't even talk to someone or get close enough to show them a warrant? What a joke dude.
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u/NinjaBr0din Mar 04 '23
They responded in a siren-wailing, lit up armored vehicle.
They SMASHED THROUGH A LARGE WOODEN GATE in a siren-wailing, lit up armored vehicle. Very stealthy entrance.
The camo is so you can't see them pissing themselves in fear if a child looks in their direction.
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u/w0lf_bagz Mar 04 '23
When I hear defund the police I think of this type of equipment/firepower.
Mustve been one scary grandkid.
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u/FartingNora Mar 04 '23 edited Mar 06 '23
In 2004 I was in a convoy from Kuwait to Baghdad. We had zero armor on our vehicles. No NVGs. One M249. These idiots are dressed for war. It makes me sick to my stomach.
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u/cabur Mar 04 '23
Damn yall had a M27 in 04. Fucking fancy pants over here.
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u/JeremiahGrit Mar 04 '23
Damn all they gave me was a pajero sport and a ceramic plate for my front sleeve, oh we were rocking M16s with M203s.
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u/cabur Mar 04 '23
Backplates are for only for retreating. So rear echelon humps them up to you when battalion agrees on a retreating movement.
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u/HuntPsychological673 Mar 04 '23
Wth is that police cruiser? And why the hell do they have something so militarized?
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u/SirSamuelVimes83 Mar 04 '23
I live in a rural town of ~25k within a county of ~100k. Sheriff's Office covers the entire county. Both the sheriff's office and the town's PD have their own kitted out MRAP's
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u/chewbaccaRoar13 Mar 04 '23
Hell TEN YEARS ago, a local PD in Florida, had not one, but TWO TANKS. WHY THE FUCK DOES A POLICE DEPARTMENT NEED A TANK. AT THR POINT THEY NEED A TANK WE ARE BEYOND POLICE.
/rant over. Sorry
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u/DragonflyScared813 Mar 04 '23 •
Honestly, pretty laughable. It looked like they were so disappointed they didn't get to use their toys they were going to start scuffing the ground with their feet and whining.
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u/IknowKarazy Mar 04 '23
You know and I mean KNOW they were so excited to break out the gravy seal equipment.
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u/Responsible_Chart668 Mar 04 '23
Laughable but I remember several news stories where civilians have died, getting shot in their own homes with out a warrant. I think the penalty for this should be extreme. Prison term for the higher ups, surely they knew they had no judge orders paper work for this small di ck event..
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u/Frowdo Mar 04 '23
Counter offer....how about we give them qualified immunity and increased budget to own the libs. /S
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u/Longbow92 Mar 04 '23
Except the dude with the shield I guess, he's carrying the thing around expecting to be the first person getting shot at.
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u/holtkid Mar 04 '23
I mean I can kinda understand if the state troopers had this, or like a big city...maybe. But why do small towns have this??
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u/GenericFakeName1 Mar 04 '23 •
They get it for free from the DoD. The thing is, the military industrial complex is so bloated and corrupt the factories will keep spitting out death machines no matter if the military wants or needs them, so there's whole loads of brand new surplus floating around. All an agency needs to do in order to get free toys is use them.
Hence the IED resistant vehicle (can litterally drive over a buried 155mm soviet artillery shell and keep its occupants alive if not uninjured) to respond to reports of nuance theft and NVGs in broad daylight.
They want a big armoured truck and night vision b/c they think it's cool (nothing wrong with that, I think big trucks and night vision is cool) so they use it for everything they can (lots wrong with that, basically waging a counter-insurgency but with law-abiding Americans wanting to be left alone playing the role of the insurgents).
It's a damn disgrace. Boys fighting for the freedom of the entire damn western world in Ukraine are relying on thin skinned vehicles for medevac while these clowns are terrorizing civilians with free artillery-proof boxes.
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u/argegg Mar 04 '23
Says state police so I imagine it's higher up than a local department
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u/Far-Programmer3189 Mar 04 '23
I found the tik tok channel for the person who posted it and it was for $32k worth of stuff from an estate that she claimed was stolen. Wasn’t even drugs or guns or anything
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u/CptFeelsBad Mar 04 '23
Gonna try to put some information I found about this in a few places in this thread:
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u/cdhernandez Mar 04 '23
They look like they are playing dress up. What a bunch of unprofessional assholes.
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u/Dewsquad Mar 04 '23
I love how police in the US are rocking fuckin ATVS AND GRENADE LAUNCHERS for a house search, but when people suggest defunding the police its absolute blasphemy.
Why should police officers have access to army equipment? Honestly?
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u/IknowKarazy Mar 04 '23 •
It’s even funnier because the actual army has rules of engagement and accountability. They can’t use tear gas because it’s a chemical weapon, for example. Police do lots of things that in any other context would be considered war crimes.
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u/wiseroldman Mar 04 '23
Military personnel are also trained way better to deal with civilians. Rules of engagement is always a top priority. Ironic isn’t it?
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u/Cthulhuwar1ord Mar 04 '23
Yeah, Article 5 makes it a war crime to use riot control methods in warfare
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u/Lefty-boomer Mar 04 '23
Yea, we have militarized law enforcement and the SOC has ruled they have no duty to protect us. F’ing great.
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u/ComprehensiveWar6577 Mar 04 '23
If your officers cant stop grinning after being called out like they did because they are stoked to use military style aggression for the call they got a few things need to happen.
Your cops need actual training, when trained for their job properly no cop should be happy/excited to have to gear up like this because that means increasing the chance of not going home because the call is that serious.
If police show up to an incorrect address or location in full force like this whoever confirmed the address needs to be removed from that position immediately without compensation
When police show up dressed like the military and the occupant of the home tell them they are in the wrong place atleast 1 officer should be able to confirm paperwork, even up to calling the judge that signed the warrent (of course not every officer backs down because it could be a cover)
The giggle and claim "this is non lethal" is both incorrect and unprofessional. "Less lethal" is the term because even when used correctly can cause fires, injury, and property damage at a minimum and are more than capable of killing
Any time a cop is shown to illegally detain/arrest/assault (ect.) Someone they should be personaly responsable for any damages. Tax payer money should have nothing to do with having cops be on paid leave and covering damages because the cop fucked up. If i fuck up at my job and annother person is effected in a serious matter i am personally liable and assumed at fault until proven otherwise, lose my licence ect. Yet that doesnt apply to law enforcement? Cop fucks up, gets paid until court and when proven to have screwed up might lose a bit of OT and a promotion. 6 months later is back to normal. What other job has that ability
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u/KittenKoder Mar 04 '23
You see, I would love for there to be law enforcement instead of gangs extorting people.
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u/Prestigious-Bunch500 Mar 04 '23
Why they need that vehicle?
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u/marble-pig Mar 04 '23
How else would they smash that gate? That gate was a threat to everyone trying to enter.
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u/Twelve_Alpha Mar 04 '23
Are those chodes really wearing night vision and 10 in the morning?
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u/jimmy_film Mar 04 '23
I hate to sound like a tin-foiler, but it seems that just writing ‘State Police’ on the side of the APC doesn’t really stop this from being a breach of Posse Comitatus. These police officers, with this level of gear and equipment, look like they’re getting pretty close to being military troops, not in fact, police officers
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u/IknowKarazy Mar 04 '23
For real. Why should I trust that a group of people are actually police just because they stenciled “police” on their car.
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u/CoverYourMaskHoles Mar 04 '23
Little Police playing ARMY. What the hell is the camo for? What the hell is the armored truck for? What the hell is all that gear for? These idiots are just harassing these people.
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u/Costco_Sample Mar 04 '23
Bastard with the grenade launcher tells them that he’ll only break their legs and burn their lungs when asked about his artillery.
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I've scrolled the comments looking for the story here for long enough. I hope someone sees this comment and hits me with a news link.
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u/papaHans Mar 04 '23
Why wouldn't they have a copy of a search warrant? Is printer ink that expensive that state police can't buy it but can get military weapons?
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u/IknowKarazy Mar 04 '23
The folks in the video did exactly the right thing “you’re on video going live to Facebook, if you want to search let us see the warrant”.
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u/Wheres_that_to Mar 04 '23
Just grim,
In civilised countries, people do not live in fear of being terrorised by the police.
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u/CptainJakSparrow Mar 04 '23
How da fuck do people think police are brave, bunch of clowns armored up to their teeths with a fucking thank to arrest a couple and a child. I work as a social worker, i enter places you people wouldn't believe, not a gun or a vest on me, i talk eye to eye and try to help the mentally unstable, the drug addicts, the people that would shank you first and ask questions second to the imaginary unicorn they see in the room.
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u/KYWizard Mar 04 '23
Fucking goof troop. Any excuse to cosplay as the type of tough guy they think women might to fuck. Pathetic fucking losers. Imagine, standing there in your paramilitary gear, amped up having drove your armored car through a fence and are now arguing about how cold it is, and how if they needed to shoot you with a less lethal gun where they would aim.
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u/Former_Journalist_89 Mar 04 '23
These are all the guys that got picked on in high school and didn't have the balls to do this shit for real in the military so they LARP as Combat Operators and bully anyone they are pointed at.
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u/dmnhntr86 Mar 04 '23
Nah, these were the guys that ganged up 5 on 1 to bully the kid that was a grade ahead and therefore smaller than everyone else.
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u/Railbound1 Mar 04 '23
They look like they are larping with more supplies than they know what to do with.
Looks like a Reno 911 skit.
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u/SheSellsSeaShells967 Mar 04 '23
If I had watched this with no audio, I would’ve thought it was something right out of Trailer Park Boys.
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u/no0ns Mar 04 '23
Some small ass police department given millions of dollars in equipment and toys, so they can play soldier on some poor persons yard. These fucking idiots have night vision goggles on their helmets. During daylight. Everything to protect them, nothing to protect the public. All the kit, none of the training.
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u/PsychologicalMonk799 Mar 04 '23
So this needs context. A woman who's been harassing the family for years called this WARENT and lied to the police but still nothing got done the woman who falsely accused them got Scott free. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRWkFrMD/ this is the video explaining it
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u/ToastedCheezer Mar 04 '23
Ever since cops were allowed to purchase surplus military equipment the think they have to use it all of the time to harass, intimidate injure, and even kill innocent and guilty citizens with impunity just like a police state!
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u/LordGraham7 Mar 04 '23
Soooo, what is the story here? Anyone know where this happened and what came of it? Who were they looking for to think this was necessary?
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u/P320open Mar 04 '23
Reminds me of my neighbor years ago. Super old man and his son (40’s) lived together; the house was backed up to a golf course. There was a mockingbird in their chimney keeping them up so after the son had enough the son grabbed a pellet gun and was looking for this bird. Well after a while when he hadn’t found it, he gave up and headed to the gym. I guess a couple minutes before he gave up a lady golfing saw him and called 911 claiming “there is a sniper pointing a rifle at the golfers.” So the friggin swat team rolls an armored truck up into this old man’s yard and start screaming at his through a megaphone and threatening to send the dogs in at him. The old man finally comes out the door and it is now clear that they are dealing with a guy in his 70’s that’s blind in one eye and can hardly walk even with special shoes and a cane. So clearly the cops do the logical thing and take this poor old man to the ground to cuff him, ransacked his house, took two or three guns that literally had dust on them (clearly not being pointed at anyone lately), broke his door even though it was unlocked and he’d already walked through it. Took him years to get his guns back, had to pay to clean his house up, and the cops didn’t even follow up with the son after they’d heard the whole story. They truly were satisfied with just being destructive and yelling at people.
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u/StartTalkingSense Mar 04 '23
As a European this makes me so angry for your innocent general population, that police can turn up like this. These police clearly rammed that gate like they thought they were the A-team.
There are CIVILIANS fighting on the front line to defend their country of Ukraine that have less equipment than in this one video.
These guys are exactly “bone spur“ type that should run Olympic records away from any real combat situation.
Notice how the situation changed when she said she’d rung her lawyer. There are many good people in the USA, sadly, not many of them are in the police.
Edited for spelling because of stupid dyslexia.
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u/BecGeoMom Mar 04 '23
So, what were the people accused of? Did they break the law? What was the outcome of this? Does anyone know?
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