Man when i grew up in Mississippi i knew some crooked sheriff's but this dude from

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The criminals have better ammo than a .38 so LE has no choice.

I saw a video of cops serving a warrant for someone over traffic tickets, not anything violent. Instead of 2 cops knocking on a door, it was 15+ cops in camo, body armor, with ARs, all getting out of 2 APCS to circle the house. They looked like Seals in Iraq except for the "police" on their chests. There was a grandma, mom, and a couple kids inside who had guns pointed at them when they opened the front door.

Is swat warranted? Sometimes, yeah. Should cops be outgunned? Never. But do they use excessive force just because they have it? Honestly, sometimes yeah. Fact is a lot of cops think of themselves as cool special forces type badasses and they look for opportunities to behave that way when often all they need to do is give the civilian in question an opportunity to work with them.

My issue isn't that they have "military" equipment, but that they behave like they're "military", and the rest of us are potential insurgents they need to be suspicious of.