Great comment attached to the story in the comments section …
“America - the country where they can afford to send 25 police cars to your house for no good reason, but have no money to pay for cancer treatment. Amazing.”
No money to fund the “fraud, waste, and abuse” at USAID but easy $1.4B to tear down a government building and build a monument to the most arrogant man on Earth.
More than one monument!
Trumpstein Ballroom
The Tacky Arch
L’arc de dumbass
On multiple levels, most US American thing I read today…
i don’t think i even need to post the image.
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WTF kind of psychopath swats an 81 year old woman?
What kind of psychopath rolls up to a random house with 20 cars juat because some probably child called? Special weapons and tactics my ass. They just burn taxpayer money and amerkkkans are okay with it
The most famous case came in 2018, when 25-year-old Tyler Barriss tried to swat a streamer, but instead sent the police to the wrong address. It ended with a father-of-two being shot dead by officers. Barriss was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
And the police who murdered the innocent father? How many years did they get?
This is fundamentally the real problem. Submitting false reports to police will always be possible. Anyone can do it. But a false police report should never endanger someone’s life. That’s only possible because of bad policing.
I’ve actually personally made a police report that resulted in our version of a SWAT team being sent. They’re called ETF here in Canada. I saw what looked like a domestic violence incident, with a knife involved. Because there was a weapon, policy said to send ETF.
When they arrived they locked down the entire area, and then they talked to the people inside the apartment. They gave clear and simple instructions, they made them both walk out one at a time, they got everyone’s stories, and they resolved the entire incident without violence.
ETF are trained by JTF-2, one of the best special forces units in the world. These are absolutely terrifying people. If violence had been needed they would have dispensed it with ruthless efficiency. But that training also gives them the confidence to not use violence as a first resort. They’re taught to de-escalate, to resolve situations safely and calmly wherever possible.
This is how policing works all over the developed world. Only in America is “murder by cop” a realistic option, and that’s 100% a problem with American policing.
And, I want to be absolutely clear about this; Canadian policing sucks. We’re not even a good example. So many countries do it better than us. America has set the bar so low that even our middling efforts look amazing in comparison.
So many countries do it better than us. America has set the bar so low that even our middling efforts look amazing in comparison.
This is true for so many things
At least she took it with a sense of humour.
This is the world we live in now.
Here’s her own upload regarding it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeHxr14qStY
“It was kinda fun. I met people I would never have met otherwise.”
Amazing
It would be interesting to learn what fraction of SWAT (and SWAT-like) responses are to legitimate emergencies where their presence is both warranted and helpful.
It has to extrmely low due to their use in the war on drugs raiding homes where there is zero credible threats of violence.
