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posted by janrinok on Wednesday June 10 2015, @07:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the good-thing-no-one-was-jaywalking dept.

According to reporting in AlterNet, the Denver Channel, Westword, and others:

A standoff between SWAT team members and an armed shoplifting suspect who barricaded himself in a Greenwood Village home ended, but now the home owner thinks police destroyed his house. Greenwood Village Police said the 19-hour standoff ended with no injured officers or citizens, but the home looks like a bomb went off.

There is a large hole in the front of the house, broken windows and glass are littered everywhere and shrapnel is stuck in the walls. Leo Lech said, "It looks like Osama Bin Laden's compound." Lech is no terrorist but an unlucky homeowner whose property was caught in the cross fire when the suspect broke into the home. A 9-year-old child who was in the home at the time was able to escape.

Greenwood Village Police say that the suspect had four active warrants out for narcotics and had a large amount of narcotics with him. The suspect tried to steal a car at the home and fired at police from the garage, Greenwood Village Police say. Negotiations with the suspect failed after police met two of the suspect's three demands, but the suspect severed communications with police. Police used explosives and a ramming device to gain entry into the home after negotiations failed.

"This is a complete atrocity," said Lech. "This is a paramilitary force used in a civilian environment ... for one gunman? To use this kind of power?" Lech said the Greenwood Village Police Department claimed it was not responsible and the city would not return his calls.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday June 10 2015, @08:52PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday June 10 2015, @08:52PM (#194673) Homepage

    I really love how liberal scum are so vocally against police militarization and oppression.

    And yet they will gladly vote to regulate what sizes of soda others must drink, what others can eat, what others can smoke, what others are allowed to say, what kind of bags others must use for groceries, what others must do with the water those others already paid for, micromanaging the fornication of college students, and how parents must raise their own children, to name a few.

    What I would like to see is for all the steroid-addled militarized police swine be released into the metropolitan areas of Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, and Boston; where the pigs would be given license to curb-stomp and summarily execute the liberal scum.

    It'll give a whole new meaning to the phrase -- heh -- "trigger warning."

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by takyon on Wednesday June 10 2015, @08:55PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday June 10 2015, @08:55PM (#194675) Journal

    Libertarian scum are opposed to police militarization and fatass taxes et al.

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    • (Score: 1) by captnjohnny1618 on Wednesday June 10 2015, @09:12PM

      by captnjohnny1618 (5301) on Wednesday June 10 2015, @09:12PM (#194680)

      In fact, I'm not sure ANY one group is in favor of police militarization... other than the police of course.

      • (Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Wednesday June 10 2015, @09:52PM

        by GungnirSniper (1671) on Wednesday June 10 2015, @09:52PM (#194695) Journal

        The police unions, like all public employee unions, agitate for more money, newer gear, and whatever else may benefit them. The most egregious example is in California, where the prison guards union spent a significant amount of money to lobby against liberalized cannabis laws. More prisoners means more work for them.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2015, @11:05PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2015, @11:05PM (#194742)

          Yes, because private employees never want new equipment, we're all happy with 20 year old shit that barely works some of the time.

          • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday June 10 2015, @11:24PM

            by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday June 10 2015, @11:24PM (#194752) Homepage

            That's all fine and dandy when your business model doesn't depend on incarcerating people. But soon it will be your turn, and then you'll have plenty of time to lick the shiny new boots of the prison guards once they lock you up for smoking marijuana or torrenting Justin Bieber's new album. Those happy prison guards will be sure to thank you for those shiny new boots and riot shields as they throw you unprotected into a cell with a large Black man who was imprisoned for serial anal rape.

            The guards will go home to their wives and kids happy that punks like you keep breaking the law, and then they will shine those nice new boots your incarceration paid for. They will be eating dinner with their families while you are biting the pillow and being opened up by a monstrous Black cock the thickness of a 24 oz. can of Miller.

            • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2015, @11:35PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2015, @11:35PM (#194755)

              You believe Hollywood prison is an accurate portrayal of real prison. That's cute.

              • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday June 11 2015, @02:00AM

                by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Thursday June 11 2015, @02:00AM (#194793) Homepage

                My brother has been to prison multiple times. Rape happens but not nearly as much as depicted in media. However, you will get the shit beat out of you if you fart before walking yourself to the bathroom and actually sitting down on the pot with your pants dropped. Think about that next time you illegally steal that Katy Perry album.

                Or were you talking about white-collar prison?

                • (Score: 2) by istartedi on Thursday June 11 2015, @02:27AM

                  by istartedi (123) on Thursday June 11 2015, @02:27AM (#194802) Journal

                  IMHO, that's what it boils down to. There are a few systems like hard-line communism where you can blame the system as the primary cause. We see Democratic Socialist states that are run humanely. We even see fairly hard right states that are not too bad. Of course both of these systems can turn quite sour. Good ol' republics can too. Any system. Laissez-faire capitalism? Worker exploitation. School system? Pass illiterates on to the next grade. Prison system? Let 'em run amok. Computer system? My God, it's full of malware. Why? Human scum.

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                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @03:16PM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @03:16PM (#195422)

                  Think about that next time you illegally steal that Katy Perry album.

                  As opposed to legally stealing it?

      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2015, @10:53PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2015, @10:53PM (#194735)

        In fact, I'm not sure ANY one group is in favor of police militarization

        Authoritarians? I see people who support the police no matter what they do.

  • (Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Wednesday June 10 2015, @10:50PM

    by dyingtolive (952) on Wednesday June 10 2015, @10:50PM (#194731)

    That's a pretty broad brush you're painting with there, but I'm a midwestern liberal who doesn't like police states but couldn't give a damn about any of the rest of that stuff. Maybe I'd be a moderate if I went to a state anyone actually cared about?

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 11 2015, @03:14AM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday June 11 2015, @03:14AM (#194815) Journal

    Hmm, I don't think that would turn out the way you think it would. Liberals have guns, too, and even if they didn't at first it would not take long for them to acquire them in the United States. All you have to do is seize a squad car and you're pretty sure to be up at least a shotgun. A precinct, which is just a building in the neighborhood, holds even more guns. It should also be noted that you do not need to use a gun to kill someone with a gun. Booby traps, IEDs, speeding cars, good old-fashioned crossbows, lots of ways. Then you can walk over to the dead and dying cops and acquire their guns. The only thing a population needs is some combination of anger, courage, and/or desperation to find the proper motivation. And big cities do tend to attract highly skilled, creative, and motivated people because they get paid more there. So I bet you dollars to donuts they'd find some really unique and innovative ways to resist such moves.

    Next it's important to remember that American cops and soldiers come from the places you want them to oppress, so you'll be asking them to oppress their friends, family, and neighbors. They are not Hessians or some other body of foreign mercenaries who could not care less how many blocks of Cleveland they flatten with napalm. So some of them will refuse those orders and fight back (See Syria).

    Last, I read liberal and conservative sites all the time because I have come to believe that they really have most things in common and that they point fingers at each other and call each other names because billions of dollars are spent in all kinds of ways to condition them to do that. And I see as much anger and concern on conservative sites about police militarization and oppression as I do on liberal ones. In what I take as an encouraging sign, more on both sides of that artificial divide are coming to understand that Republicans are as bad as Democrats and vice versa, and more of them are pointing fingers in the same, right direction. They're not yet putting their arms around each other's shoulders and singing "We Shall Overcome," but baby steps, baby steps.

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  • (Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday June 11 2015, @03:21AM

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 11 2015, @03:21AM (#194819)

    I really love how liberal scum are so vocally against police militarization and oppression.

    Result: Less death.

    And yet they will gladly vote to regulate what sizes of soda others must drink, what others can eat, what others can smoke...

    Result: Less death.

    ("Result: Less death.") == ("Result: Less death.") // True

    Sorry, I'm having trouble following your train of thought on this one.

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    • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday June 11 2015, @03:34AM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Thursday June 11 2015, @03:34AM (#194825) Homepage

      Less Death = more births.

      so more births = less costs through lower wages for everybody! Big business wins. The lower-class grows while the middle class loses.

      • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Thursday June 11 2015, @01:39PM

        by urza9814 (3954) on Thursday June 11 2015, @01:39PM (#194945) Journal

        Less Death = more births.

        Not really. If you stop someone from dying at 40, and instead they die at 80, what are the odds they're going to have kids in those extra years? Pretty slim. The kinds of deaths caused by drinking too much soda specifically are unlikely to be the kinds of deaths that prevent people from reproducing.