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A suspicious package that turned out to contain horse manure sparked a bomb scare near the Los Angeles home of US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, reports say.
The gift-wrapped manure was found at 19:40 (03:40 GMT) at the home next to Mr Mnuchin's in Bel-Air, police said.
Police cleared the package an hour later and the Secret Service is investigating, CBS said.
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2017/12/23/horse-manure-addressed-to-steve-mnuchin/
There were a lot of frustrated neighbors. Including Zsa Zsa Gabor's widower.
"We have $50 million homes and we can't move, we can't get out," Prince Frederick von Anhalt, who was trapped for two hours, said. "That's bad, they have to find another way."
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 25 2017, @10:33PM (2 children)
Police all too commonly take excessive control of objects, areas, and people.
If you fight a person in self-defense, the cops may seize the weapon as evidence. This isn't justified unless there is some dispute. If you admit that you lawfully killed Professor Plum in the billiard room with a lead pipe, there is no need to seize the lead pipe or the billiard room.
Here in Florida, several different sorts of cops (FBI, local, state...) had an all-day cop party at the Melbourne Square Mall after a shooting. Early in the morning, a food court employee got shot by an ex-boyfriend. Numerous low-paid workers had just made the commute to work at their own expense. They paid for that. They needed their billable hours to get their wages. They need to pay rent and buy food. Nope! It's an all-day cop party with the whole damn mall shut down. More properly, the food court alone would be shut until 11 AM (a couple hours), and then just the one restaurant for the rest of the day. Shoppers could keep shopping, lunch could be served, and numerous low-paid mall workers could earn their wages. Instead the mall was evacuated and the cops got to hang out together playing with their armored personal carrier and other military crap.
Basically, the cops don't give a fuck. They love to exert control. They get a power trip from that. There are zero consequences for disrupting lives and the economy.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday December 25 2017, @10:56PM (1 child)
Nonsense. Stupidest think I seen here all day.
As soon as the pipe and billiard room are cleaned, you will retract your confession, and demand a jury trial, and claim police coercion. People confess to things they didn't do all the time.
As for your Mall case [floridatoday.com] some other guy got killed - you sort of left that out, and nobody knew at that time that there was only one shooter. Google that mall and the word Shooting and you find 6 or 8 separate incidents over the last few years. Its the go to place to have a gun fight it seems. Yet you want the police to phone it in?
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 26 2017, @12:32AM
Nobody knew at that time that no shooter had escaped the mall either, so maybe shut down the whole city?
Oh, a shooter could be in a house. Raid every house, in theoretical hot pursuit so no need for a warrant. Do no-knock SWAT raids with flash-bang grenades -- we don't want the police to phone it in.
Oh, there is an interstate highway. A shooter could have gotten to it. Shut down I-95 for a hundred miles each direction.
Oh, there is an airport. Shut down airspace within 300 miles.
Oh, there is a beach. Shut down shipping off the coast of Florida.
Nobody moves!!! Search everybody!!! Do CAT scans and DNA testing!!!