Family traumatized after false allegation leads to tactical team storming north Edmonton home 

That's what you do when you have to respond to a hostage situation have you have no idea who the hostages or hostage takers are, you neutralize any active threats then proceed to detain everyone and investigate. The crazy thing is though is that they didn't even attempt to gather intel beforehand, they immediately choose the most violent option. Why even bother having a drone if you're not going to use it for reconnaissance.

Government paves the road to Hell with good intentions. I can name several moms and dads of toddlers who could have handled the situation much better, even if there had been a hostage-taker in the house.

Sorry, that was entirely the wrong response from the police. They are the ones that should be in jail.

A lot of lawmakers are trying to make the punishment and penalty harder for swatters

Agreed! And then have them charged with mischief and then sue them.

@@cleanoutthefridgeand the police also need to be disciplined and explain to the public on how this happened. The police also need punishment for how this was handled. The public deserves an explanation and apology.

@@allytrudie864no, that’s how you handle a hostage situation which is exactly what this was called in as. Global is just rage baiting, whoever made the call is to blame.

@@bengale8106no. It isn’t. They infringed on human rights and made a mistake they are not allowed to make without being disciplined. The police are to be blamed just as much as the person who spoofed their sons phone. One day, your 15 year old child will have a gun pointed at them and you will see how this mistake is egregious and needs to be investigated and explained to the public thoroughly.

There is a chance that it was James and Ashley who made the call/allegation based on the most recent video of them showing their true colors at a McDonalds drive thru.

That’s completely pointless because when someone swats somebody they do it anonymously for one, and for two they do it from miles away so they aren’t going to see no swatting signs. Plus putting up a no swatting sign is not going to deter them because they aren’t going to care about your sign, so again pointless.

Or 500lbs of Tannerite under the porch.

They don't care about people just getting to play with their toys.

Not only that. They’re likely to get a paid vacation out of it.

No kidding

Sue the cops personally not the taxpayers.

​@@Dbodell8000both.

the insurance company will probably join hands with the state and launch a lawsuit of their own even if the property owner doesnt

​@@Dbodell8000nope, the police service.

What, because they did their jobs? They responded to a help call, wrong or not, they did their jobs nonetheless.

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Tried to pull a debit card scam at McDonald's and threatened to sue. My bet is he called the tip on himself for a chance to sue the city.

​@@good2grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr736His passenger was fired as a waitress. After telling the McDonald's employee to "get a career" lmao

this is absolutely disgusting to me in every way shape and form. This comment and the people who liked it are absolutely without empathy for the children and grandmother. My uncle was swatted by the police. They nearly killed his rottweilers. He was hysterical dont shoot my dogs man dont shoot my dogs! He was trying to pull the large male back because they kicked in his door in the middle of the night screaming and the dog would not settle.

man in Kentucky was shot in his lawn because of something like this

Not in Canada😅😅😅

Found out the girlfriend was fired from her waitress job

@@erinmefford8041no way🤯 she should sue McDonalds if that’s true. All she did was ask them to park to the side in order to maintain fast service. they walk the food out to them when it’s finished.

What dude

The guy lives with his parents. He doesn’t have hobbies.

Doesn't justify what they did over an anonymous call. INVESTIGATE is supposed to come before detain with zip ties 🙄

@@michaelmatthew6019ya they should have knocked and asked nicely to talk to the shooter while they had a gun to someone’s head! Grow up

@@willli8163 armed home invaders are what the 2nd amendment is for 👍👍

@@michaelmatthew6019 yeah, too bad Canada doesn't have it...

Sounds like a prank call put on by someone else, either as a dare or to get back at James. Busting into the house like they did they could have ended up shooting the grandmother and the 15 year old, not sure why they would shot the father since he was driving up and not in the house. I do hope they find the one who made this false call.

The classic: blame the victim!

Exactly also his witch of a girlfriend Ashley was fired after that video went viral from her waitress job

Idk if they thought someone was in immediate danger that is what I would want them to do. Could you imagine being at knife point and if the police had to talk nicely to the people holding you before entering.

The VPD are JUST as inept.

@@allytrudie864 what is 'vpd'?

it wasn't the RCMP, it was EPS.

@@ryuuguu01 mrs enns, it clearly states in the video that it was Fort Saskatchewan RCMP.

@@daktarioskarvannederhosen2568 Read the description below the title "An Edmonton family says they are traumatized after the Edmonton Police Service tactical team smashed in their door." Or read the article on the website.

He should get a career

Well, if someone is actually doing his/her job, those cops are going to be fired if they are responsible of this. Some other people at a higher level is also going to be accountable.

@@rhysioeren3203it’s so cute you actually think the police will admit any wrong doing and that this will actually be looked into deeply. The news won’t even be able to do a follow up story on how this all played out pointing out the mistakes the police made and how they can confirm it won’t happen again. This will just be swept under the rug.

The cops pockets ARE the tax payers. We the tax payers pay their wages and all their toys. We own them.

You can’t fix stupid though 🤷🏼‍♀️ these street constables have a high school education because no secondary education institution admitted them. They just so happen to be an all star hockey player so they have the brawn and brains perfect for the RCMP/VPD. But you can’t make them smart.

“Just following orders…” This is a policy mistake. The police need to revise the playbook.

They are acting exactly how they were trained. They threatened the man’s life when there wasn’t even a threat. That’s just completely unacceptable.

Hard to get good training when cops are defunded.

I think it's important that you learn to listen & comprehend. The report clearly indicated that the report the police received was false, the alleged text did not come from the son! Try getting your facts straight before you beak off.

Tell us you didn’t watch the video and understand it without telling us you didn’t watch the video and understand it, by making a stupid comment.

@@timtaylor750and you need to learn how to comprehend verbal English gooder. Watch the video again S L O W L Y and get back to us with your revised comment.

@@d.r.tweedstweeddale9038 It does not say the text did not come from the son of the people who called the police. it says the allegations were false. " I think it's important that you learn to listen & comprehend."

Ugh. It's an overseas scam. It's been going around the US for years. I'm surprised the police reacted to it because EVERYBODY has been getting these calls/texts. The criminals comb Facebook etc for personal info, then hack people's phones and the rest is history. First it was calls to grandma and grandpa supposedly from their grandchild saying they need money sent to some bank account... blah blah blah. A lot of grandparents are getting hard of hearing and many don't hear their grandchildren on the phone much so they become nervous and fall for it. Now it's texts sent directly to parents because parents tend to know their own child's voice. Seriously, people shouldn't discuss their personal lives on social media or if they do, fix the security settings so people can't see who you are "friends" with or who you're related to.

Because him and his girlfriend are scammers James and his girlfriend went to a McDonald’s was politely asked by the worker to park the car to revive the food look up James potts McDonalds drive thru

They both argued with her the video is on you tube

The RCMP didn't say that James made that false claim.

@@alfiewillis4893Edmonton has its own police force. Not RCMP.

Because a kidnapper immediately thinks of $1500 ransom instead of $1500000? Police should have known that this call was fake.

We are not a litigious country or people. You’d have to be a billionaire to afford a lawyer to get anything brought before a court to sue an arm of the government.

Yes they're is

@@colinchornenki6262they will get the cost of their door repair. They won’t get any real therapy paid for. Just the rinky dink victim services phone “therapy” with some kid that took a course in human behaviour in college. Do you think victim services will speak to you daily or even weekly through your trauma? Nope! You will get to talk to them once a quarter- because they care.

The problem is, here in Canada, even if you win your lawsuit against the Government, it has taken so long, some up to 10 years, that nobody wants to take your case except Huge law firms and by the time it's all said and done, the big law firm has put in so many billable hours that you get about 20 per cent of your settlement. I am Canadian so I have researched this hard, more so for my own Province of Nova Scotia. The only time that the money is settled quickly is if there has been permanent physical damage to the victim, can't walk, blind, broken arms, can't work AND the news channels do the leg work, putting it on TV every time there's an update in the case and that is about the only way you sort of win. Once the Government sees that you are suing, they just keep postponing the court dates on court day, so you lawyer shows up has taken hours to prepare and then it's postponed, and YOU have to pay the lawyer fees. If you take the cops to court and you lose, YOU have to pay the court cost of the Government lawyers and that can be countless thousands because the pad the books to get more money out of you now that you lost.

Our Government in power only pays terrorists.

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I don’t mean to judge a book by its cover but a family that size and apparent demographic- they couldn’t afford the lawyer that could actually get them justice. This is Canada so any justice they could have gotten through a good lawyer would have just been given to the lawyer when the family paid his bill.

@@allytrudie864 មែនហើយអ្នកខ្ញុំសង្ឃឹមថាពួកគេនឹងមានសមត្ថភាពអាចរកមេធាវីបានក្នុងការជួយការពារក្ដីរបស់ពួកគេ។

Huh? This is EXACTLY how a Police State works…

I saw the west Vancouver police giving a homeless women the third degree for jaywalking against the light in between the park royal buildings. I was jaywalking right beside her but they didn’t even look at me. While I waited for the bus I could see they had her sitting talking to her for over 15 mins while I waited for the bus. She was clearly just being abused because for the way she looked. She didn’t even do anything wrong. If we want to jaywalk and hurt ourselves then that’s when we will learn the lesson. Weird how none of us ever learn this lesson? 😂

EPS has to justify their toys/powers/funding. Dealing with known criminals would put the police at risk. Better they just give those real criminals a heads up on how EPS works and response insanely to an unconfirmed crime.

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I really dont care if he is a total freak. The grandmother and the kids could have been killed because the cops have been itching to play some fantasy they have of storming and killing the bad guys.

How does that even matter to the fact that police can bust down your door with a tank on nothing more than a text or phone call?

Nobody ever faces any justice in this country anymore!

Odds are they did that to themselves to try to sue the police

Based on what this guy is like, and it not being his first rodeo to fabricate a problem and threaten to "sue". He was most likely the one who swatted himself to sue the police department. He tried to threaten to sue McDonald's after trying to pull a scam on them by asking for a refund in cash instead of back on the card they used to pay with. Which was against the store's policy. This is due because if they get a cash refund, they can call up their bank for another refund and the bank would never know that they had already received a refund. I am assuming he thought it was going to be a win all around. Cause if he couldn't pull off the scam, then he would try the legal system and try to find some kind of loophole to extort money. They were trying to scare the cashier into going along with their scam and absolutely did not get the results they wanted. Then it became viral, and the lady who was with him harassing the McDonald's worker got brutally fired from her waitressing job. You'd think someone who also works in the food industry knows how it works regarding refunds and what these workers go through. But nah. She became the person she probably complains about often while she was still a waitress lol. So I don't doubt one bit, this is what he wanted to happen so he can do just that and get a good payout.