This newer incident likely won't be as controversial since the riders had actual weapons, not toys; and no claim that the Waymo "imprisoned" the riders, as many people seem to have previously hallucinated.
The cops said they found an "AR-styled assault rifle also known as a ghost gun", what does that mean? Was it an unserielled gun or not? And I assume it isn't an actual "assault rifle" with a firing selector.
US cops are so untrustworthy to start with, saying nonsense like that shows them as completely incompetent.
Someone very likely 3d printed an AR lower (unserialized, therefore a "ghost gun"), unlikely it had an autosear. The news and police typically call disfavored semi-auto weapons "assault rifles" and things that are fully automatic "machine guns".
All of these are true: the cops are untrustworthy; a bust like this gets overhyped and both the government issued information and the reporting are inaccurate; pedantry about select fire modes is pointless; Americans have a right to buy military style weapons, and that's in the context of the drafting of the 2A, unless you are not white enough; modern military style weapons are pointless in the hands of all about a very few civilian marksmen - they are fetish items.
All the press announcement needed to say to get the correct point across was that somebody was brandishing a weapon in a Waymo, they got caught doing it, and the police responded and arrested them.
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[ 0.23 ms ] story [ 37.7 ms ] threadWaymo reports teen riders for bad behavior and delivers them to the police
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824010
crickets
hmm rough crowd..
US cops are so untrustworthy to start with, saying nonsense like that shows them as completely incompetent.
All the press announcement needed to say to get the correct point across was that somebody was brandishing a weapon in a Waymo, they got caught doing it, and the police responded and arrested them.