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by x86_64Ubuntu 2022 days ago
Judges rubber stamp warrant requests, and nothing that she is alleged of doing requires cops to show up with body armor and assault rifles.
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I mean wearing a bullet proof vest for a search warrant seems a reasonable enough precaution.

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/florida/2020/12/10/video-s...

There's the video, they're all wearing khakis, the officer talking to the woman has a not-so-stylish short sleeved plaid shirt, and one of them has some kind of stick? Not exactly a SWAT raid.

The misinformation campaign around this is intense. Assault rifles, really?