I have a feeling the SWAT team weren't just there for firepower, but for extra brain cells.
I have a question about that. Not sure where to ask it.
This guy right here:
What's his day job?
With that epic beard, that guy isn't a patrol officer. Where exactly was he when this incident kicked off. Like, was he waiting around in a room somewhere, with all his gear on, just in case someone calls for SWAT?
When she gets the cop's gun, the body cam timestamp says 17:02. After that, it takes a few minutes for everyone to understand the situation. Let's be charitable and say they called for SWAT by 17:05. The first time we see SWAT on-scene, the timestamp says 17:35.
This incident took place in Fort Collins, Colorado; a small-to-midsize city (wiki says 170k people). It's not an especially important place. It's not a "high risk" place. But they can get (what appears to be) tier-1 operators on a scene in 30 minutes flat??
Surely these badasses aren't stationed in Fort Collins, right? Surely this guy doesn't show up to work in Fort Collins every single day and just twiddle his thumbs for 8 hours ...because for decades, nothing requiring SWAT probably happens in Fort Collins.
The drive from the nearest big city (Denver) is about an hour, so if the team is stationed in Denver, they must have flown in. They must also have had an aircraft ready to go, because it takes more than 30 minutes just to perform the preflight checks on a helicopter.
Am I the only one whose mind is blown by the realization that the U.S. apparently has air-mobile military units that can respond anywhere in the country in under an hour? I mean, it's comforting. It's just not something I was aware of.
...or maybe I'm totally wrong, and this guy is Ron from Larimer County Jail Central Booking. Maybe his day job is doing spreadsheets in an office, and when the call came in, it took him 30 minutes to gear-up and walk next door. I don't know.
she did 15 years for some crime she committed in her mid-teens
That's wild. She scored a 19 year sentence this time:
https://www.coloradoan.com/story/ne...at-larimer-county-jail-sentenced/75058493007/
She doesn't look like someone you'd expect to spend 30 years behind bars.