NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — More than a year before Anthony Warner detonated a bomb in downtown Nashville on Christmas, officers visited his home after his girlfriend told police that he was building bombs in an RV trailer at his residence, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. But they were unable to make contact with him, or see inside his RV.
Holy shit they would have raided his house asap if he’d not been white…Son of a bitch!
Would be terrorists take note: Put a fence around the yard, put up surveillance and when the cops come, don’t answer the door. As has been noted, this only works if you’re white.
Yeah like this
Similarly, if the girlfriend’s report was that he had 4 or 5 pot plants in the house I’m guessing they’d have pulled out all the stops to find a way to have a look.
See something say something? Only if they’re POC.
Don’t ask, don’t tell? All white then…
If that guy had only been black they could have shot him for no reason years before.
So if this info had been given by a confidential informant they could have gotten a warrant but because it came from a distraught girlfriend in possession of two of his guns partially corroborated by a man who had been a lawyer to both of them, nothing doing ?
Would-be domestic terrorists just need to post lots of Trump signs and the following at their properties so the police don’t bother them.
No Systematic Racism Here.
Move Along & Take Cover.
Not Terrorist; Just Disgruntled.
When two people with direct personal knowledge tell the cops that someone is building bombs, that’s probable cause for a search warrant. Whether the failure to get one is laziness, incompetence, or cultural affinity, these cops need to become ex-cops immediately.
Ah to pine for the days when law enforcement and concerned citizens were concerned about a high school students science project.
To be fair, we can hardly expect women folk to know about technical, manly things like bombs. I mean - everything other than a cake and knitted pink beanie probably looks rather bombish to the ladies. And how do we know she wasn’t having her time of the month - we all know what that’s like, right guys?
Well a lot of people don’t know that Ahmed Mohamed literally translates to Bomby McBombignton in American.
Of course he was white and apparently not a
muslim. So bomb making in the RV was just him exercising his “freedoms.” What could go wrong? Dolts.
Even in the People’s Republic of Amherst, wasn’t that long ago that some skunkweed would bring Johnny Law a-knockin’…
Unpopular opinion: That “clock” was a deliberate provocation, constructed with sufficient plausible deniability to be able to play the martyr when it elicited its intended reaction, by a family who (quite justifiably, see now-incoming Congress-bigot Beth Van Duyne) felt persecuted for their religion and whose behavior in the aftermath of the incident did not provide any reason to believe they had been acting in good faith to begin with.
I am still laughing as I type this. Gilda was amazing.
Another unpopular opinion — The constabulary in their unsophisticated ignorance and desire for headlines made themselves look like bigoted, overzealous fools, easily duped by a Muslim teenager. (Where were the wiser heads? Not in that locale.)