The suspect in a spate of bombings that terrorized residents of Austin, Texas, died after detonating an explosive inside his vehicle as a SWAT team approached to apprehend him on the side of a highway, officials said.
Early Wednesday, authorities tracked the suspect — a 24-year-old white man — to a hotel in Round Rock, a city in the Austin metropolitan area, Austin Police Chief Brian Manley told a news conference early Wednesday.
They tracked his vehicle until it pulled over on Interstate 35 and the suspect "detonated a bomb inside the vehicle, knocking one of our SWAT officers back and one of our officers fired on the vehicle as well," Manley said.
Also at CNN, BBC, and Bloomberg.
Previously: Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @11:29AM (28 children)
Are you attempting to claim police brutality on a person that committed suicide?
My 5 year old nephew us better at staying on a topic and has a more organized thought pattern than you.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by cocaine overdose on Wednesday March 21 2018, @11:33AM (26 children)
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 21 2018, @11:38AM (3 children)
Depends on the situation. But we do have the target reaching for and using a weapon.
(Score: 1) by cocaine overdose on Wednesday March 21 2018, @11:58AM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:08PM (1 child)
Shoot the hostage, shoot the dead guy, and shoot anything that moves, and if it doesn't move, shoot it again.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:13PM
No. You're doing it wrong. Nuke 'em 'til they glow, then shoot 'em in the dark!
What's more, I like apostrophes! ''''''''''''''''''
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @11:47AM (18 children)
A trait that you seem to share...
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by cocaine overdose on Wednesday March 21 2018, @12:03PM (17 children)
While the SWAT had less than 100 brain cells, he was still able to breath automatically. You, on the other hand, I don't need to know anything about. Just by seeing your failure of a quote, I can infer you have 15 brain cells and your handler has 60.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:50PM (4 children)
Hmm… the problem with Arik Mono is that ellipses don't look very good. See that one I just used? It's all scrunched up and compressed since 1en = 1em—even em dashes get scrunched up! Look at that one! You can't tell whether it's an em dash or an en dash or a hyphen or a negative!
Can we stop the violence against decent, hardworking variable width serif and sans-serif typefaces? Think of the kerning! Think of the children!
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:13PM (2 children)
I shot the serif, but I did not shoot the monospace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLUNu9zOLfM [youtube.com]
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:35PM (1 child)
and you are now so Comic Sans. literally.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:41PM
Don't worry I got a small chuckle from the Marley reference. It was a better joke than yours, though comic sans was decent. If you delivered it with a better attitude it would have worked better.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by cocaine overdose on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:05PM
@font-face {
font-family: "Linotype Abstract";
src: url("css/fonts/LinotypeOL.wav");
}
on every single post and VariusTM Ornaments for every reply. My favourite color is CIE(0.363661,0.182901,154493.4785) and all of my grids are replaced with lists.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:33PM (11 children)
Instead I will hope you get terminal cancer this year, you useless piece of shirt.
And I hope it hurts you a lot.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by cocaine overdose on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:42PM (10 children)
I'll let you in on a secret: I don't use a single tty for my daily needs. I spawn and kill hundreds of xterms every day. None live long enough to get any sort of cancer that would affect me.
And for calling me a useless rag, all I have for you is that: you're rude. Cloth has many uses, even if those as lowly as wiping the wet feces off of an obesely bed-ridden Soyim's bottom.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by darkfeline on Thursday March 22 2018, @03:34AM (9 children)
> I don't use a single tty for my daily needs. I spawn and kill hundreds of xterms every day.
Well, I can't say I am surprised to find out how ignorant this new persona is. Each xterm instance holds a tty.
Join the SDF Public Access UNIX System today!
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by cocaine overdose on Thursday March 22 2018, @03:47AM (8 children)
You inglorious moran.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Thursday March 22 2018, @06:07PM (7 children)
That's an awfully convenient justification for "I don't use ttys". You should try being a politician, just make sure to hide the cocaine (or maybe tell the courts that cocaine is processed by the molecules in your body and not by you).
Join the SDF Public Access UNIX System today!
(Score: 2, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday March 22 2018, @08:38PM (5 children)
He hasn't touched a tty in his life. Even his mother wouldn't breastfeed him.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Troll) by cocaine overdose on Thursday March 22 2018, @11:48PM (4 children)
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday March 23 2018, @02:16AM (3 children)
2 nights ago. Why?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by cocaine overdose on Friday March 23 2018, @02:22AM (2 children)
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday March 23 2018, @02:30AM (1 child)
You don't read so good, do ya, boy...?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by cocaine overdose on Friday March 23 2018, @02:47AM
(Score: 2) by cocaine overdose on Thursday March 22 2018, @11:45PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:36PM (1 child)
Are you arguing with yourself??? The level of trolling has def taken a turn for the crazy.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by cocaine overdose on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:45PM
(Score: 3, Informative) by pTamok on Wednesday March 21 2018, @06:30PM
The SWAT team member might actually have been following the mandated procedure (rules of engagement) for this particular situation.
If there is a reasonable suspicion that the alleged bomber has booby-trapped themselves e.g. the first bomb acts to attract first responders, then a second is triggered to kill the first responders, you are likely to work on the basis of making sure the alleged bomber is dead before approaching them after the first bomb. (Note: I'm not saying there were two bombs. All you need is reasonable suspicion that there might be.)
You'd work on the basis of rigging the first bomb to attract attention, but not kill you, and the second to cause maximum damage. It could be the bomber (luckily for the first responders) got the calculations wrong on the first bomb, or the first triggered the second by accident.
This is why the plain-clothes policemen in the notorious Jean Charles de Menezes [wikipedia.org] case fired multiple 'killing' head-shots* as de Menezes lay dying (or dead). The training is to hit the motor-centres of the brain from point-blank range to ensure a booby-trap can't be triggered. They are trained to do that**.
I have no idea what the relevant SWAT team's rules might be, so this is just speculation: but the reason may not be idiocy or panic.
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes#Shooting_2
**There was controversy over this procedure. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes#Controversy_over_police_procedure [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 22 2018, @06:05AM
Let's see... Officers stop car. Suspect detonates explosive knocking one officer back. Another officer then fires at the now blown up vehicle with blown up driver inside. And you don't think there was something slightly resembling brutality there?