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spanone

(135,891 posts)
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 10:01 PM Feb 2012

San Diego Cops Find Nothing In 2-Hour Standoff With Empty Car

A tense, two-hour standoff between armed San Diego Police and an empty car on the freeway ended with no injuries -- just questions.

The red-faced cops can be seen on Fox 5's helicopter footage pointing guns at a dark-colored sedan on Interstate 8 -- apparently for more than two hours before they moved in to take down their target.

But there was nobody in the vehicle.

Police officials said that the suspect they were looking for -- an unidentified man who was on parole -- was a suspect in a home invasion on Tuesday. He called his parole officer, saying that he'd broken down on the interstate and would be late for his mandatory meeting, the station reported.

Cops found the vehicle on the highway and surrounded it, thinking that their home invasion suspect was hiding inside. They even sent a canine to check the vehicle, but the pup found nothing.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/15/cop-standoff-empty-car_n_1279126.html?ref=crime&ncid=webmail1

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San Diego Cops Find Nothing In 2-Hour Standoff With Empty Car (Original Post) spanone Feb 2012 OP
did the San Diego police go and beat up an OWS protester zbdent Feb 2012 #1
They couldn't find Politicalboi Feb 2012 #2
It was embarassing to watch. Hatchling Feb 2012 #3
or send the dog in sooner? spanone Feb 2012 #4
Is that you Mitt? DCKit Feb 2012 #6
Or send somebody other than the Barney Squad pinboy3niner Feb 2012 #7
To be fair, thermal scopes are pretty expensive. TheWraith Feb 2012 #10
Even if they have them... pinboy3niner Feb 2012 #11
Fire them and return the funds to the taxpayers. Dawson Leery Feb 2012 #5
That kind of treatment is reserved for teachers (nt) Blecht Feb 2012 #8
+1! Bozita Feb 2012 #9
+2! pinboy3niner Feb 2012 #12
+3 xchrom Feb 2012 #13
+4 montanto Feb 2012 #14

Hatchling

(2,323 posts)
3. It was embarassing to watch.
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 10:44 PM
Feb 2012

Couldn't they use one of those scope thingys you always see on cop shows that show the heat signature of bodies? And they smashed the shit out of the car for nothing. I hope they're liable for that, it looked like a nice car at one time.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
7. Or send somebody other than the Barney Squad
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 02:05 AM
Feb 2012

When the guys you send all have their bullet in their pocket, the result is kinda predictable.

TheWraith

(24,331 posts)
10. To be fair, thermal scopes are pretty expensive.
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 05:12 AM
Feb 2012

A simple monocular thermal rifle scope will run you $10,000. It's not likely that the SDPD stocks them outside of some limited numbers for SWAT gear.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
11. Even if they have them...
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 05:21 AM
Feb 2012

...this incident didn't exactly scream out that they needed to deploy them there.

I'll join in the 'Barney' jokes, but I'll give SFPD a pass on this one. They didn't know what they had, and they had to treat it as they did.

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