"..We gave weapons of war to every small-town police department in ththe country, which used those to create SWAT teams. They did not receive the military training—they only got the weapons.
And that’s how every small-town police department has the wrong overlap of inexperience and munitions to burst into homes and threaten murder because a 16-year-old with stolen VPN credentials and a VoIP account thought it would be funny.."
Yep, what the kid did was bad, what made it bad (how we all expect police will behave) is worse.