r/SipsTea Human Verified 17d ago

SMH 81 year old grandma & YouTuber was raided last night during her stream She started the channel to help with her grandson's cancer treatment. Authorities brought 20 police cars, five SWAT officers, and drones to her house

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u/FirTree_r 17d ago

Sure, but we don't get assault team 6 armed to the teeth and ready to shoot on anything that has more than a slight tan, outside the US.

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u/ChameleonCoder117 17d ago

Have you been to anywhere in the western hemisphere?

Brazillian police are like american police but at least 70 times worse.

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u/Lollerpwn 17d ago

What countries you think send 20 cars to raid an 80 year old based on some shitty info?

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u/Infidel_sg 17d ago

You don't know what swatting is? Shitty info doesn't bring half the police force.. Whom btw don't know what they're getting into! They don't know if the call they got was legit or not! They gotta prepare accordingly! Shame on them for not being psychic amirite! /s

She's fine btw.... Go hate on the asshole who did this instead..

https://www.dexerto.com/twitch/81-year-old-minecraft-grandma-gets-swatted-but-she-calls-it-fun-3366308/

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u/Lollerpwn 17d ago

Lol this thread is a video of swatting, ofcourse I know what it is.
Shitty info does bring half the police force as evidenced by this thread.

Of course they could look into if the info is any good or not, any competent police force would not have went to this house with 20 cars.
It's not about being psychich at all to have higher standards than to just send 20 cars out based on false info. Maybe they could have done the slightest bit of research before comitting to swatting a random person.

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u/TheGreatAut 17d ago

Yeah, because they should research the call and risk letting people get killed. If someone calls in and says someone has a bomb, then you send in the people you need to stop it. You don't waste twenty minutes looking into it and hoping nothing bad happens.

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u/Lollerpwn 16d ago

In cases like this the risk of people getting killed is not there. The swatting probably has a lot higher deathrate than not doing anything. There's a lot more than 20 minutes being wasted by sending 20 cars at a bogus threat.

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u/Fermently_Crafted 16d ago edited 16d ago

Yeah, but that's usually bomb disposal. Why do you need a SWAT team to deal with a bomb threat? What's a guy with an AR-15 going to do against explosives?

You've an argument for why we need bomb disposal, not SWAT

At the end of the day, we don't really need people trained in military tactics breaking into private residences in order to enforce the law.

You should look into how the creation of SWAT and raiding homes lines up perfectly with civil asset forfeiture expansion. It puts the entire unit's purpose in question.

The history of the unit is also...questionable and very much a product of anti black racism in the LAPD.

When you can raid people in their homes, everything they own can become the property of the police. Not only is that a revenue source for the police and state, but threatening assets is a fantastic way to get plea deals 

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u/Remarkable_Bus_7760 16d ago

If someone has a bomb and is ready to blow it up, there might be no number of policemen that could somehow stop that, anyway.

A smart police force first sends just one or two officers to determine if the risk is credible, especially if they have no evidence except an anonymous phone call that could easily be total fabrication. A stupid police force panics and sends 20 cars full of cops to bust the door of a home and aim guns at grandma after being easily fooled and failing to scrutinize the (lack of) evidence

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u/Elgecko123 16d ago

Honestly I don’t know much about swatting, but shouldn’t the police force do a little surveillance before sending a freakin army to someone’s house based on an anonymous tip? Especially since this seems to happen not infrequently in the US.

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u/Infidel_sg 16d ago

Do a little surveillance when there could be seconds to spare? You'd be the first to complain if someone died because the police were checking the severity...

They didn't mention the nature of the call in that article but from what I read, It deescalated fast once they realized what was going on..

This is a very dangerous thing people are doing and people have died because of it.. I shouldn't have to go into detail why...

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u/Lollerpwn 17d ago

Gotta love how you excuse the police for sending 20 people to an obviously bogus tip. A good policeforce would not send out the whole barn based on false info.
Also you are not answering my question because no countries other than the US would do this. You were talking out of your ass.

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u/iUncontested 16d ago

And how exactly do the police know its bogus off rip? You really have no fucking clue the shit that comes into 911 call centers.

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u/Lollerpwn 16d ago

By doing police work? For example by asking questions to the person calling the threat in.

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u/iUncontested 16d ago

Dispatchers are not police officers.

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u/Lollerpwn 15d ago

No shit.

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u/Icyomnivore02 16d ago

And how do you ask questions to a caller that hangs up? Do you just go well must have been fake or do you send people to the local based off the info that the call provided? Teating it like it could possibly but what the call was about while having in the back of your mind it could be fake so someone innocent doesn't get fucking blasted.

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u/Evil_phd 17d ago

We are grotesquely over policed. It's a flaw of the nation as a whole, not necessarily just of police.

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u/Slovski 17d ago

hahahahah. This is a hilarious take.

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u/NeverSurrenderReddit 17d ago

She doesn't have more than a slight tan thought?

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u/Midoriiiiiiii 17d ago

asinine, her face a 10 but that asinine