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Originally Posted by Locke
Considering what Cops are doing at the moment is this really that far-fetched?
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Not only is this
not far-fetched, it's
already happened in living memory.
In 1985, the Philadelphia PD dropped a bomb (!!!) from a helicopter on a black neighbourhood while the fire department stood by instead of putting out the flames. Eleven people, five of them children, died in the fire. Sixty-five homes were destroyed in the blaze.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...n-philadelphia
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Frank Powell, a Philadelphia police officer who in 1985 was chief of the city’s bomb disposal squad, remembers vividly the moment he was given his instructions. “Wow,” he recalls thinking. “You want me to do that?”
On 13 May 1985 Powell was handed an army-style green satchel containing a bomb made of C-4 plastic explosives of the sort widely deployed in Vietnam. He boarded a state police helicopter, and took up his position balanced precariously on the skids of the aircraft.
“I can’t remember being scared,” he told the Guardian, “though I must have been.”
At 5.27pm as the helicopter rose into a crystal-clear blue sky he carried out his orders. Flying over a largely African American residential neighborhood of west Philadelphia, he lined up his sights, lit the 45-second fuse with a military igniter and followed his orders.
“I reached out and I dropped it. Perfect. It was going right where it was supposed to go.”
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