Police were dispatched toward Smith’s residence but were called off when they learned it was a false alarm and that everyone inside the home was safe.
Special counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing the prosecution of former President Donald Trump in two federal cases, was the target of an attempted swatting at his Maryland residence on Christmas Day.
According to two law enforcement sources, someone called 911 and said that Smith had shot his wife at the address where Smith lives.
Montgomery County Police dispatched units toward the home but were called off when the Deputy U.S. Marshals protecting Smith and his family told police that it was a false alarm and that everyone inside the home was safe.
No arrests have been made in connection with the incident.
Die Hard has John McClane making an anonymous report of terrorists, which is then responded to by a single cop who drives by to see if there’s anything going on.
When did that change?
When police started buying military surplus and find it’s not exciting if it sits in an armory. Here’s a blog post that links a good Last Week Tonight from 2014 about it.
When all you have is an armored vehicle, high-powered rifles, and body armor, every problem looks like a brown-skinned terrorist.
9/11
Damn I forgot
We had 1 rule.
in the 90s when the War on Drugs gave every fuckdamn podunk cop corral the funding for assault weapons, body armor, and tanks.
Also Die Hard was an entertainment movie, not a documentary.
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