Well, it should be a busy day in the blogosphere today…
This is interesting:
I know most police departments have some explosives on hand, but this is the first time I have heard of them actually using them in an offensive tactic since the spectacular fail of the police at the MOVE shootout in ’85.
However, police do have a long history of burning people out of their positions….intentionally and unintentionally. Chris Dorner was burned out of his hiding place, and we all know what happened to those guys down in Waco.
It’s possible a bomb was brought in not to kill the suspect but to blow a hole in the wall or otherwise breach the place and the suspect happened to get caught in the blast. Or, that’ll be the story anyway :::wink wink nudge nudge:::
As an aside, this shooting incident in Texas was predictable given the media hype and coverage of these sorts of protests. There’ll be more, too…that’s virtually a certainty. I’m awaiting the usage of this event to further the gun-ban agenda. Stay tuned.
i thought was an interesting escalation of force too. the usual suspects are already trying to make hay against the guns b4 they even knew the details. sickening all around. heartbreaking as a former cop. i read an article saying dallas pd had dozens of officers quit in the last couple months. other big cities as well. maybe they see the future and want no part in it.
A “mini-Claymore” could be assembled in about 3 minutes from a chunk of C4 or other plastic explosive, an electric blasting cap and a big handful of steel nuts from the closest Home Depot.
Didn’t even need to do any damage to the robot, if they duct-taped the device on the and of a 2×2 furring strip.
I caught most of this live that night, up to the part where they declared an all clear around 1 am. I was very surprised when the police chief himself declared that they took out the shooter with a bomb. But when they had all the other statements of guilt, was it really worth the possible lives of 3-4 more cops to take this person alive?
And dagnabbit, I haven’t got enough saved up for that PSA AR-10 upper yet! Now the market will go sky high….