It’d be nice to see the general population demilitarized as well.

Yes, absolutely. Attempted murder, terroristic threats, obstruction of justice, and probably more. Wielding law enforcement itself as a weapon to harass, threaten, and terrorize, with disregard for the possibility of damage or death.

Other articles say the guy was a father of two, too. Poor guy had no way of knowing what was gonna happen.

At least someone wants to take it seriously, for once:

The police erroneously believe that they only kill “bad guys” and if an innocent person was SWATted the officers could never mistakenly kill them

Then the police would have to admit they’re out here murdering all the time and cannot be trusted with their trigger happy tactics.

he reached towards his waistband

Not a “prank.” Murder. You don’t call SWAT on someone unless you intend for someone to die.

“Go-ing to Burning Man, Burning Man - Burning Man!”

He’s a golem made of mayonnaise.

Foreign direct investment into the US is down almost 50% compared to last year, tourism 6%. That’s a significant demonstration of a lack of trust among the business community and lost sympathies among ordinary people on a global scale as well - and it can be directly attributed to Donald Trump and the Republican…

Jeff Sessions basically said that Hawaii was not a real state a couple of months ago, when a Hawaiian judge blocked the travel ban. You bet they’d love to rescind Hawaiian statehood if they could, and there’s not a chance in hell Hawaii would be allowed into the union today.

When the conversation comes up, friends in other Western nations are pretty flabbergasted and disgusted, too. Money doesn’t seem to be an issue, both parties just voted for a huge increase of military spending, beyond what even the Pentagon was asking for and there’s a giant tax cut for billionaires and big businesses…

Which is the root cause of the issue: Taxation without representation. If that sounds familiar, it’s one of the reasons why the United States became a country.

There is a third option and most big companies do it. Aka, hire professional community managers, people who can interract in a professional manner and are also not emotionally invested to the project.

Some players seem to be damn determined to be angry and alienated no matter what you do, so fuck it. Cut us off. I’d love to talk to a developer behind Horizon Zero Dawn, but not at the cost of them getting death threats and harassment towards their families over a video game. Fuck that.

Anything a developer says, no matter how many disclaimers, is a promise as far as gamers are concerned, and they will throw a righteous temper tantrum if that promise isn’t delivered on.

Not true. This will inevitably cause kids to lose interest, because there’s nothing that kids find more boring than the things adults tell them are taboo and forbidden.

Yeah, I think now we’re at “Only thinks it’s good at pretending”

Even though the blood draw that detective was asking for would have been tossed in any criminal case, it could very well be admitted in a civil action. It really looks like someone was going on a digging expedition to find ANY reason to weasel out of a lawsuit.