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[–] MeeseeksBox 1 point 4 points (+5|-1) ago  (edited ago)

The day I was supposed to move out of my apartment I got involved in an 8 hour stand off with police. They weren't there for me, they were there for my neighbor. He had a knife, not even a big knife just a knife, with no hostages or anything like that. They surrounded the building with little boy piggies holding their favorite toys, mostly AR-15's and grenade launchers. The swat team was called in, there were probably 50-60 officers present, for one guy who had a knife.

Turns out the law he broke was a simple traffic violation, and the cops were trying to arrest him for not paying tickets which he had never received. He had been on probation, so they were going to be taking him away for a long time and he was refusing to go.

The cops ineptitude handling the situation meant that we were trapped in my apartment for the entire day, and couldn't move out. Eventually they did get him, without killing him amazingly, but they had caused way more of a problem by just wanting an excuse to use their cool stuff.

Also a cop pointed his gun at me while we were having a conversation that was perfectly peaceful, I stepped out simply asking how long this was going to take, the cop aimed his gun at me before answering. Totally causal, I bet he didn't even notice. I sure as fuck did.