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I got SWAT'ed and handcuffed live while Linux development streaming! (www.youtube.com)

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 55 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Someone calls an emergency number and says "My husband has a knife and he's threatening to kill me!"

Should the operator say "nothing we can do until you provide provide me with some evidence, ma'am" ?

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 21 points 2 months ago

Lmao the cops take four hours to send someone then say she was just being dramatic in that scenario

[–] Entropywins@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pics or it didn't happen, would be what I'd say...

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well the cops might be taking pics of a dead body the next day. So then they could say "yeah we probably should've responded to that one last night, but we just couldn't risk that it might've been one of the 0.01% of these calls where it turns out it's an internet swatting thing."

[+] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world -7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yep. I guess there are no other possible methods of conducting a police investigation than your suggested method. Pack it in, boys. Space Cowboy's got it all figured out for us!

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're not offering any alternatives.

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Here's an extremely easy one. When in doubt, just knock on the goddamned door and talk with someone instead of kicking the door in, tossing flash-bangs and jamming rifles in people's faces. Knock... and talk. SWAT shouldn't be entering unless there's a barricaded suspect.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

The first thing is what they did. They knocked on the door, they spoke. At one point he was detained when they had a look about and then they apologised and left.

There was no SWAT (this is Germany so technically it would be a SEK team I guess), there was no flashbangs (why would police even have those?), there were no rifles in faces.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

If someone's in imminent danger sending police capable of protecting them from said danger seems like a reasonable idea