According to an MBTA spokesman, transit police SWAT team members were ultimately the ones who put handcuffs on 19-year-old bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev when he was captured Friday night.
For several hours after that, the threat of gunfire stopped firefighters from battling the blaze and forced police SWAT teams to evacuate 33 people in the neighborhood of small waterfront homes.
More than 100 federal agents and Omaha police SWAT officers barreled into houses across the city, part of the first blow in a larger effort aimed at combating violent crime citywide.
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"We as a country tend to lull ourselves into a false sense of security over the passage of time, " said Andy Lamprey, vice president of the security firm Andrews International and a former Los Angeles Police Department senior SWAT supervisor.
When the man threatened to shoot an officer on the ground, police called in a SWAT team, which arrived at about 11:30 a.m.
In the last 10 years or so, however, firefighters are increasingly being cross-training to become certified police officers assigned to SWAT teams, Stittleburg said.
The latter incident, at the Cathedral of St John the Divine, triggered a response from an emergency swat team and more than 100 police officers.
As the pieces come together, it becomes increasingly difficult to view this as anything other than yet another botched SWAT raid by an overly militarized police force.
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The Los Angeles Police Department's SWAT guys are pretty tough fellas, but several of them had to be airlifted out of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the middle of an adventure race.
According to the police, the deceased were wanted in a kidnapping case and the approaching SWAT team was shot at from inside the house, forcing the police to return fire.
Police, some of them in SWAT gear, carried assault rifles on their shoulders, their fingers on the trigger guards.
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Police decided to send a team of SWAT officers up a ladder in the middle of the crane "to try to reestablish communications with him and to, hopefully, safely get him down from the crane so we could get him whatever help he needed, " he said.
The attack took place shortly after midnight at the police station in Mingora, a town in Swat Valley, once Pakistan's biggest tourist draw, where security has continued to deteriorate despite a peace pact.
The ANP administration, which replaced an Islamist-led government, benefited from hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. aid for schools, police equipment, hydroelectric projects, the rehabilitation of Swat Valley after it was taken back from the Taliban in 2009, and to cope with the 2010 floods.
Maulana Fazlullah in a speech last night on his FM channel said that a recent attack on a police station in Mingora (the largest town in the Swat valley) was akin to a pressure cooker blast.
On Sunday, two suicide bombers and a roadside bomb struck a military convoy near Swat, while a suicide bomber targeted scores of people taking exams for recruitment to the police in the city of Dera Ismail Khan.
Many police agencies already carry M-16s or equivalent kinds of weapons but they are usually reserved for SWAT teams.
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