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keithbvadu2

(36,667 posts)
Wed Jul 22, 2020, 11:49 AM Jul 2020

Can the SWAT team put down and arrest an armed mob/unidentified secret police?

Can the SWAT team put down and arrest an armed mob/unidentified secret police?

That is what these unidentified secret police really are. Send in the SWAT team with their military vehicles and announce ‘put down your arms and lay down.’ Arrest them on the spot. Check out their credentials down at the station. Could be stolen or fake. Block their escape in their rented vans or shoot the tires if need be. Announce that anyone holding a weapon is now considered an aggressor.

Precedent? Texas State Police arrested some militia folks under similar conditions.

Texas bar owner, armed men arrested at business reopening after dramatic standoff with police

https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-bar-owner-armed-gunmen-swat-standoff-reopening-coronavirus

https://www.google.com/search?q=Big+Daddy+Zane%27s+Bar&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com


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Can the SWAT team put down and arrest an armed mob/unidentified secret police? (Original Post) keithbvadu2 Jul 2020 OP
the governor should send in the national guard and arrest these pig/ federal law enforceme ! stonecutter357 Jul 2020 #1
There has been precedent Chainfire Jul 2020 #2
Not in today's climate. Runningdawg Jul 2020 #3
militias as fake secret police keithbvadu2 Jul 2020 #4
The SWAT team would join the goons in beating up people. National Guard is only way I see. nt hvn_nbr_2 Jul 2020 #5
They're all on the same team Nature Man Jul 2020 #6

Chainfire

(17,474 posts)
2. There has been precedent
Wed Jul 22, 2020, 12:10 PM
Jul 2020

The Night of the Long Knives, when the SS took down the SA......

No way will municipal thugs take down Federal Thugs. They are cut from the same rotten cloth.

Runningdawg

(4,514 posts)
3. Not in today's climate.
Wed Jul 22, 2020, 12:40 PM
Jul 2020

You've got SWAT teams, NG and law enforcement units full of Trump cultists and his militias and secret police to back them up. Anytime states rights vs federal on a large scale, the stage is set for an insurgency or even civil war. I have hope we can back away, but I am preparing for the worst all the same.

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