Wtf why did the police have shotguns?
What is America?!?
this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2025
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When they came to my brothers house they had ar15s
What part of “protecting and serving” DOESNT require a shotgun!?
Not swatted, but I was in the van when a strike was conducted on a coworker who had apparently been stealing from the contractor I worked for who was a previously convicted violent felon. Not fun. Pigs everywhere, heavily armed. They got us all out of the van pretty roughly. They pinned the bag of weed I had on their target, just to put more charges on him, so at least I wasn't collateral damage, but they made sure to good and scare me before they let me go.
Not me but my brother because his daughter got in an argument with some ass online that thought attempted murder was a reasonable response to being told to fuck off
I’m sorry it happened to you, it (understandably) seemed to really rattle my family. And while they knew why and even the methodology of how it happened no justice ever came to them, the small town cops of the area i grew up in were largely incompetent with handling internet crime and apparently got quite disinterested once it wasn’t an obvious slam dunk to solve
Yeah it is wild that there was literally no recourse. They were just like “we were acting on a tip” 🤷♂️
The cops broken into my apartment and made me do the whole 'hands where I can see them' thing with guns blazing. After searching my house and not finding anything, they lingered in my kitchen for a solid 30 minutes until they finally left. Turns out my roommate threaten self harm to his girlfriend, except they immediately found him outside when they got to my apartment complex.
Well that oughta fix the situation lol
I remember them lingering in our apartment like it’s an ice cream social, and being like “get the fuck out of here”! They were so suspicious that I was using an old Evan Williams bottle as a water bottle lmao nah just poor and lazy
Please dont use pigs or another animals as insults. They are intelligent, gentle and social creatures. Literally the opposite of cops.
Also fwiw I’d take a recommendation if you have one. I regularly use phrases like “feed two birds with one scone” or “there’s multiple ways to pet a cat”; and I’m always looking to expand the repertoire
I don't have any sadly 😔
Sorry pigs - smooches in your honor
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Not at home but at school once when I was doing cybercrime, and then years later I had the suburban equivalent descend on me in a parking lot once, I picked up a gun from my friend at work (the place of business actually does gun transfers...) and got a phone call and sat in the parking lot for tops 5 mins. As I'm leaving I hear sirens down the road so I chill and wait for the vehicles to pass before turning out - but surprise muthafucka they were looking for me! One cop was literally aiming out the passenger window and there was like a decent number of businesses in the line of fire. Apparently someone had called the cops and this was the response - in the USA! What the fuck?
Lmao. They’re fucking wild. Plus I feel like at least 50% of USAians will be like “they’re just doing their jooooooob” uncritically