Hmmm. Interesting commentary from the commissioner.

https://www.wgrz.com/article/n...duylJSBSlXoAdmihgsaI

Opps

I’d think they’d want to be at least a tad more covert up there. If you are going to hang in plain sight, keep the rifle a little more out of sight.

With the reported high winds, even with weight, the rifle was right on the ledge.

It’s like riding in the open bed of a pickup truck, or boat, keep most of the/your weight to the inside.

"When I said 'drop the weapon', I didn't mean 40 feet!!"

First, drop no arms.

I'm no tactical expert but this doesn't look like the best set up to me to be left unattended.

hey at least it wasn't a p320.

What kinda fancy-shmancy shooting irons are they a usin’?

”These weapons are not something like a handgun or something where you could just pick it up and the average person would know how to utilize it,” said Jeff Rinaldo, retired Buffalo Police captain.

Must be super high-tech fully semi-automatic with the shoulder thing that goes up and everything.

That is ridiculous. If you are going to have "overwatch" you should probably just have the gun ready to go in an open case on the floor or slung over your shoulder with a bipod. That setup seems impractical and unnecessary. Not to mention the fact that the city and department probably don't want that from an "optics" standpoint.

I see the SWAT types on my department and the various federal agencies going all out on cumbersome unnecessary gear all the time because they can, not because they should.

But with it mounted on the tripod like that it can be set up for remote operation via radio control…

The rifle has features attached that cause Andrew Cuomo to piss himself.

If it had landed on someone they would have counted it as more gun violence.

Sorry chief, SWAT officers aren't there for presence duty, they are your direct action tool, if you want presence, then you get your patrol/duty officers out there in-force. SWAT is a specialty trained unit, use them judiciously. Nobody wants to feel like they are apart of a siege, this was a parade, a celebratory event.

Rifle in tripod toppling over the edge of the building and onto a public gathering, fail. I get it, wind blows, knocks shit over, the weather sucks sometimes...deal with it. Should it have been anchored better, of course. Now your platform is all banged-up because you were nonchalant and casual, maybe ruined; definitely going to need some love and attention from your favorite armorer. Officer's future, probably off of SWAT and back to patrol, you were careless but, not negligent.

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Originally posted by 911Boss:
But with it mounted on the tripod like that it can be set up for remote operation via radio control…

You mean like in Breaking Bad.

Yeah, I saw that episode.
It was Andy Griffith: "The Big House" I think, where Gomer was on overwatch and kept dropping his shotgun down to the sidewalk.
Then, when it mattered, he knocked over a box of light bulbs and the bad guys thought he had a Tommy Gun.

Why the fuck is he setup at the edge of the roof. Back up a little.

Come on, we can’t get off of page one without the obligatory “militarization of the police” rant.

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Originally posted by OneWheelDrive:
First, drop no arms.

Clever

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Originally posted by 911Boss:
What kinda fancy-shmancy shooting irons are they a usin’?

”These weapons are not something like a handgun or something where you could just pick it up and the average person would know how to utilize it,” said Jeff Rinaldo, retired Buffalo Police captain.

Must be super high-tech fully semi-automatic with the shoulder thing that goes up and everything.

That must be one of them new, fancy-schmancy modular multi-caliber rifles .

I can’t really see the pictures in the article linked in the OP well enough to tell, but the last post looks like a bolt gun to me. Not really all that exotic. Given the way the individual has tied himself to the gun, I’d guess he’s not worried about rounds coming in through the window…