An entire South Florida SWAT team resigned over criticism from 22-year-old vice mayor

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Hallandale Beach is a small community in Southern Florida that, as of this week, no longer has a SWAT team.

In a June 9 memo made public on Friday, members of the Hallandale Beach Police Department SWAT Team announced their collective resignation, citing local politicians' critique of law enforcement.

"The City Administration has shown a clear disdain for our agency," the officers wrote in a memo first reported on by local television network CBS12, singling out Vice-Mayor Sabrina Javellana.

"She has actively protested against us," they complained. "She has shown that she takes pleasure in besmirching the hard work and dedication of the members of this professional agency, having the gall to compare us to the Minneapolis Police Department."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/entire-south-florida-swat-team-033907848.html

Hallandale Beach has a population less than 40,000. They need a SWAT team?

https://www.bing.com/travelguide?q=Hallandale+Beach&l2sid=059c4e05-204e-e70c-914c-45a240bb1bd4&form=PLACAB

[lapfog_1]

1. Bless their little snowflake peapickin hearts. -n/t

[dem4decades]

2. Report for duty, follow orders or resign.

[struggle4progress]

3. Uh, oh! What if hoards of undesireables invade the town and take a knee? What then?

[Chainfire]

4. Good riddance

Replace the warrior cops, and their military weapons and tactics, with people who can work in the community for the good of all.

You only need SWAT teams if you think of the community as enemies to be destroyed. Our rural Sheriff's dept. has armored personnel carriers; if you have them, you want to use them......

We could, in fact, take lethal weapons away from most cops. Peace doesn't come from the barrel of a gun, and cops tend to confuse the terms respect and fear.

[EarnestPutz]

9. Exactly right. You have to ask yourself why "Hallendale Beach, a small community...

....in southern Florida" needs a swat team in the first place.

[Sherman A1]

10. Precisely

[nakocal]

5. Update their records to indicate that they should not be hired

by other police stations. I keep reading about all of the good cops but hear absolutely nothing from them when a "bad" cop murders a black person.

[virgogal]

13. They didn't quit their jobs.

[Hekate]

6. Leaving in a snit, are they? Good riddance. nt

[Mariana]

15. No, they aren't dedicated enough to do that.

They resigned from the SWAT team, that's all. They're still cops.

[Chellee]

16. But wasn't it nice of them

to make a list of names of who should be fired first?

[Newest Reality]

7. Oh my,

Poorz piggies. How will they get their fix? How will drug busts and such be able to be done when there is no major assault team available?

Are there any video games where you and your mini-army break into people's houses military style, throw flash bangs and shoot the pets/kids etc.?

They can go! Begone.

[onecaliberal]

8. Bye Felicia.

🎉

[PatSeg]

11. Well, that is one way to thin the police herd I suppose

And yeah, why does a town of 40,000 people need a SWAT team? That sums up a lot of the problem right there.

[PatSeg]

12. Well apparently that SWAT team

"has a notorious record of raiding homes in Hallandale Beach for small amounts of drugs." Often, however, "it doesn't find any drugs at all."

In 2014, the Hallandale Beach SWAT team killed 34-year-old Howard Bowe as he stood, unarmed, in his kitchen. Officers, who were executing a pre-dawn search warrant as part of a drug investigation, also killed his dog.

In 2018, the city approved a $425,000 settlement with Bowe's family. No officers involved in the raid were ever convicted of a crime, though eyewitnesses claim they failed to announce themselves before entering Bowe's residence.

Javellana, who has drawn attention to the case as both an activist and an elected official, said she doesn't mind if she offends the likes of her local SWAT team.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/entire-south-florida-swat-team-033907848.html

Hmmm, are they offended or do they feel like they've been busted?

[stillcool]

14. better lock up the toys...

or the little boys will take them home, and terrorize their own.

[PufPuf23]

17. Hopefully one outcome is to rollback the militarization of law enforcement

Get rid of their expensive and lethal toys.

Ass hat bullies get into SWAT like moths to a flame.

The solution is worse than the problems SWAT allegedly addresses.