— The man who grabbed a suspicious backpack during a bomb squad investigation and emptied it out before police tackled him is breaking his silence.
"Would I do it again? Yeah, without a doubt," Matthew Hughes told WISN-TV.
The incident shut down a part of downtown Milwaukee last month for hours. Someone called in the suspicious backpack that sat on top of an electrical box. Police cleared the area and the bomb squad carefully moved it out into the intersection.
Video shows a man on a bike, now identified as Matthew Hughes, as he grabs the bag, shakes out the contents, then gets tackled.
He says he woke up that morning, and saw TV coverage of the suspicious bag and decided if it’s bomb, he wanted to be a hero.
"As soon as I saw that, I’m like, I’m going to go save the day, take one for the team and jump on it or discard it in the river because it’s been going on for two to three hours," he said.
The contents of the bag turned out to be harmless. Hughes says he loves Milwaukee and he doesn’t want innocent people to get hurt, but because of his actions he could face criminal charges.
I’d have a lot more sympathy for his position if the bomb squad hadn’t just wired it up to be detonated safely. Like wait 15 more min and they’ll be done.
He needs to be charged because his behavior was extremely dangerous and could have gotten people killed were it an actual bomb. People need to learn that fucking with anything the bomb squad is doing is a huge no-no.
Also, a number of commenters are unironically trying to argue like Sideshow Bob. "Attempted murder? Now, honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for Attempted Chemistry?"
lol, i love it when sites tell on themselves, can't access it since i'm in the EU and GDPR is a thing here, so what bad thing do they do that they rather cut off access then face the wrath of the EU
They can’t or they don’t want to comply with the cookie banner and stuff like that so they just disable access to non-US. i’ve seen this a lot on small or local websites and I kind of get that they don’t want to do that work to make the site compliant.
lol so I just looked into this, the site uses a CMS called TownHall which is part of the "Total CMS" offered by the company BLOX Digital. Blox's answer to GDPR was to set all of their sites to block EU access by default. Which is just a hilariously ridiculous way to handle this for a CMS company of all things
' MILWAUKEE (WISN) — The man who grabbed a suspicious backpack during a bomb squad investigation and emptied it out before police tackled him is breaking his silence.
"Would I do it again? Yeah, without a doubt," Matthew Hughes told WISN-TV.
The incident shut down a part of downtown Milwaukee last month for hours. Someone called in the suspicious backpack that sat on top of an electrical box. Police cleared the area and the bomb squad carefully moved it out into the intersection.
Video shows a man on a bike, now identified as Matthew Hughes, as he grabs the bag, shakes out the contents, then gets tackled.
He says he woke up that morning, and saw TV coverage of the suspicious bag and decided if it’s bomb, he wanted to be a hero.
"As soon as I saw that, I’m like, I’m going to go save the day, take one for the team and jump on it or discard it in the river because it’s been going on for two to three hours," he said.
The contents of the bag turned out to be harmless. Hughes says he loves Milwaukee and he doesn’t want innocent people to get hurt, but because of his actions he could face criminal charges. '
Crossing police tape.
Trust that there are laws to stick to him… maybe not anything which would cause a long sentence or DA would prosecute. But he pissed off the cops so their feelings are hurt. 😢
*sigh* you people need to argue everything, eh? Okay.
If I have a VPN to access the US from where I am, that is a lot of latency, yes.
Is it a lot of latency for one website? Surely not. But I'm not going to connect my VPN to a different country, then switch it back to my low latency VPN end-point, for seeing just one website. Or if I did, that's, like, 30 seconds of extra work. Ain't gonna do that.
That isn't really bravery though, more like suicidal narcissism. He literally said he only did it to be a hero, but there were actual heros already there doing the job properly.
I mean, I'd guess that they only didn't drag him away immediately because there was obviously some suspicion about there being a bomb in the bag. Better to let the lunatic blow himself up and not everyone else too so they left him at it. The when it was obvious there was nothing in the bag they went straight for him.
Not sure what the whole point was either or why they did it so aggressively, but to be fair, if there just so happened to actually be a bomb in the bag, the guy had just put himself and possibly other people in danger.
There is potentially a BOMB sitting there. The cops believe it enough to Block off the area and have BOMB DISPOSAL ONSITE. You can clearly see that in the video.
IDK if yall have been in the vicinity of an actual explosion before, but surprisingly small things can make surprisingly large explosions. Surprisingly mundane things we use every day can also explode, with decently terrifying force.
What if he caused a NON CONTROLLED disposal. Do you know what happens when the disposal isnt controlled?
The bomb explodes as it intends to.
Also we live in a world where bombers will set off their own devices right next to them, either intentionally, or manually as the automatic detonators failed to work...
So putting him on the ground to keep say, an IED, from exploding is the correct call and people upvoting ANYTHING else are being silly.
Police dont always work with what they JUST know. They also work on what COULD happen. This is one of those times pinning a dude, fucking around with what could be a bomb, who needed to be stopped before he set it off. God forbid it was something big, but still able to be hidden in a backpack, like an artillery shell.
But lets worry about the guy being pinned on the ground, not the fact that the dude could have blown up that intersection.
Yep. Cops are fucked and need major reform but not *every single thing they do every single day* is some fucked up abuse of power like some seem to think.
This is the appropriate response to some idiot who interrupts an extremely dangerous situation and you don't know who they are / what their intentions are / if they have a damned bomb in their hand.
I don't know man. I did point out the level of aggression in it. But I'm guessing the guy was warned several times to step away. I mean there is clearly a procedure that needs to happen here regarding the bag and the guy decided to take it upon himself to (most likely) ignore several people yelling at him and warning him of possible danger.
If there was a bomb, and this video instead showed the dude being blown to pieces, people here would be wondering why nobody wrestled him away.
Edit: I never mentioned about this tackle saving someone's life as someone said below. My point is that they were in all honesty, fucking pissed at this guy's absolute idiocy and disregard for those around him. I'm not excusing it, I'm explaining what probably happened. People just love to twist comments on here in order to get outraged over nothing. An explanation does not equal an excuse.
Fr. There was nothing being accomplished wirh that tackle except I guess revenge for refusing to follow a verbal order. No one was getting saved by that tackle.
If they were gonna tackle him, (whether he was bomber or not) should’ve been done beforehand, if the bomb was gonna go off it would have went off before they got to him
thats now how police brutality works. If they were threatened they wouldnt just charge in like that.
As the previous commenter you replied to mentioned: they didnt tackle him until they were sure there was no bomb, then it was just an unarmed citizen vs armed violent thugs
During the IRA bombing campaigns of the 80s a friends husband found a bomb in the pub he was working in. They called in the police but my mates husband is a little dim and went back in, got the bomb and pulled out the wires defusing it.
The police couldn't believe anybody could be so stupid so arrested him and got a warrant to search his house.
I imagine the tackle was due to them thinking that the guy had planted it there. Seemed a little extreme though in arresting him.
If that's the case then the cordon wasn't back far enough, would have only killed him and damaged the buildings. On that not how the fuck did he get through the cordon anyway.
If the bomb disposal guy had detonated the bomb, then it would be the same outcome. Bomb goes off.
If the bomb did explode, and killed everyone there, then the police and bomb disposal people didn't do their job properly. e.g. clear the area of people
Going by that logic, those guys should have tackled each other!
Exactly, there's a lot of mistakes being made if a guy on his bicycle can just ride right next to the guy in the bomb suit. Some people really fucked up on that day.
Bomb guys don’t wear bomb suits because they are 100% sure they will detonate with a protective cover. They wear the bomb suit because even just the slightest nudge could have set off a bomb.
Because for all they know, he could be the suspected bomber trying to manually set off the device. Or they could be worried that his haphazard handling of the bag could detonate a bomb and kill a couple cops or civilians.
He did something extraordinarily stupid by interfering and was lucky it wasn't a bomb. If it had been, he would have killed himself and possibly hurt others.
How do those boots taste? They could have calmly said, you're under arrest. What need was there for a possible life threatening injury, for him or for the cops, after the event?
At that point, it had been established that there was no bomb, so all it is is a dumb guy who went through a cordon illegally. Jail him, sure.
But there's no need to curb stomp him first.
Cop was way too late to be a hero, so he's just another dumbass putting people in danger.
That's quite cringey assuming I'm some sort of police stan because I'm not surprised he was tackled for doing that. Someone crazy enough to do what he did could have been about to do god knows what, had a weapon on him etc. They didn't shoot him, they tackled him and got him out of there quickly.
Idk, maybe to restrain a guy who apparently just slammed a bag with a bomb in it? Why do you guys always feel bad for the idiots that act like this when they get what they ask for?🤣
I did this in Atlantic City once. I am a bunch of people just saw a random suitcase next to a trash can while we were getting ready to leave. After a bunch of nervous laughs, I open it, and nothing but one of those mayonnaise packets.
So many idiots in this comment section, turns out you don't just get to decide if a bomb threat is real or not as a random bystander, who would've thought.
Right? These people are looney tunes. I wonder how many of them would lose their fucking minds if they realized that this is an example of someone taking away their ability to choose their own fate. Self-governance if you will.
Lol I mean generally isn’t the point of the Darwin Awards that the people who get nominated/win the awards are dead bc of their award-worthy behavior? They take themselves out via self-natural selection.
Is it really a darwin award when the guy knew he might die? I feel like darwin awards apply to people risking death unknowingly out of stupidity rather than knowingly.
Yes because it’s completely unnecessary, if bomb squad is there they will eventually figure out there is nothing there without him doing anything, if there is actually a bomb in there he’ll die trying to prove there is nothing in the bag. Pointless involvement
But he wasn’t trying to prove there wasnt a bomb, he literally just wanted to die a hero if there actually WAS a bomb, not any less stupid by any means, but context is important.
It’s wild to think that he was trying to do something altruistic but if he actually blew up and was killed, I feel like most people wouldn’t appreciate his effort and would just call him an idiot.
If I could simulate that exact scenario for him vividly, I wonder if he would change his mind and let the bomb squad deal with the backpack.
Also, he said himself he wasn’t trying to help other people. He wanted to be a hero. That’s self-aggrandizement, not altruism.
He might not know it, but you can be help people immensely and not be recognized. But in this circumstance, he wanted everyone to applaud him more than he wanted to actually help anyone.
Worse, if he blew up and killed himself and other people or damaged some buildings so severely they would collapse.
People on the internet are so deranged sometimes lol. Hating the EODs and police for investigating a public safety threat, an objectively good thing and use of police time, because they are obviously omnipotent and just wanted to waste everyone’s time
That's a crime btw, trespassing, and potentially causing oneself/more in extreme danger if the bag was an actual bomb. He deserves to be tackled down. That's not hero behaviour, that's straight up ignorance.
Imagine if every single bomb situation you have random pedestrian jumping into what potentially be a bomb device, that'd be a problem isn't it? People could've died.
Any argument that says "but he's fine, it wasn't a bomb", is absolutely narrow minded.
Never mind the trespassing and causing himself harm, there were other people in the vicinity. Sure, they had been moved back. Was it far enough? I don’t know.
And I don’t usually go for property as a thing to care about, but if you’re the business owner that gets their windows blown up and their front facade turned into a biohazard out mess of shrapnel and idiot, are you gonna be happy to pay the deductible on that insurance claim? Or can you eat the cost of closing for the time it will take to clean up and repair? What about the staff at those businesses? Can they just stay home and not receive any income for the duration?
People just aren’t in the habit of thinking of other people it seems.
Had a ton of people in the comments section think the police were stupid or bad or whatever for tackling the guy after because obviously there wasn’t a bomb in there.
Clearly the police knew this, and just wanted to spend a ton of time, some money, and effort messing around and blocking off a large area for several hours and impeding traffic for funsies.
Or perhaps, a person in one of the nearby office buildings reported a suspicious bag even saying he thinks there could be something dangerous in it and the police came to do their job.
And some dingus, the man in the video, literally quoted in an interview (after) saying he wanted to be a hero ran in to try and “defuse” (explode) the possible bomb because he believed he was the only person capable.
But of course according to Redditors, the police being omnipotent as they are, knew all of this and decided to tackle him anyways because they got embarrassed.
Not because there may have been an explosive device in there, or because he could be the potential bomber, or whatever.
I guess the police should’ve just ignored the call made by a civilian and shrugged saying “if it’s a bomb, it’s a bomb. Not my problem if it kills a bunch of people.”
The lack of critical thought and reasoning, and the hatred of police so blinding that people say some of the things with full conviction in this comment section and all the prior ones, never ceases to amaze me
The completely unnecessary violence is the main problem here. Absolutely no need at all to do that. You can easily kill someone by doing that on a hard surface. He’s posing no threat to anyone at that point and there’s no argument for such violence.
He didn’t dispose of or disarm any explosives in a safe way at all. He just ran up, and ripped everything out. If there was an explosive, it wouldn’t have been just him that ate it.
Fuck that guy especially. He doesn’t get to choose how other people risk their lives.
no, the 911 call was about a suspicious backpack. to which, this is the correct response. no one said the word "bomb". morons blocked off a downtown area for 3+ hours, inventing non-existent threats.
I assume the safety training in this situation is to ensure you and any bystanders keep a safe distance until the idiot has stopped tampering with the potential explosive and then arrest them as soon as possible for needlessly putting others lives at risk.
I love that the "brave men and women of law enforcement" rushed in at light speed to tackle and arrest him...... juuuuuuust after they were 100% sure he proved that there wasnt the bomb in the backpack.
I read his public statement. I don’t get it. What made him think he’d be a hero? He had no idea what was in there. He had no idea what the potential blast radius could be, if it was chemical or if it was just shrapnel, or if there was anything that he DID that could’ve set one off. Bombs are fragile and defusing takes time for a reason. Moving can set one off. While defusing, the wrong action can set it off. Correct action but too fast or too slow can set it off. And if it has motion sensors connected, nearby movement can set it off. This takes time for a reason. He needs help.
I wonder how much it cost to deploy the bomb squad. That dude just showed the cops they weren't needed and they decided to punish him for it. Go "operate" elsewhere fellas.
When it is just the last part at least then I can remove the tracking part, but with share.google or others it's impossible to get the original link, without tracking.
"As soon as I saw that, I’m like, I’m going to go save the day, take one for the team and jump on it or discard it in the river because it’s been going on for two to three hours," he said.
Homeboy's got issues. Three hours of inconvenience? Yup, better go kill myself instead of letting the professionals handle it. That's worth it.
Yes, because had it had been a bomb and he blew himself up there would have been massive amounts of cleanup and repairs needed and it would have cost thousands. The bloke was a twat and deserves everything he gets.
The person phoning it in had no idea what it was so did the right thing by phoning it in. More people need to understand this because the one day everyone ignores it, people die !.
So despite being proven completely and irredeemably wrong, the comment section still treats the harmless backpack as if it's an armed nuclear bomb. Someone called 911 over a case of lost and found. Extra points for this being in downtown Milwaukee.
...when you can't get into your morning coffee place, because the police have it blocked off.
https://www.wkow.com/news/man-who-intervened-in-milwaukee-bomb-squad-investigation-tells-story/article_af356b00-07dd-5635-b950-ddd80b47afef.html
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MILWAUKEE (WISN)
— The man who grabbed a suspicious backpack during a bomb squad investigation and emptied it out before police tackled him is breaking his silence.
"Would I do it again? Yeah, without a doubt," Matthew Hughes told WISN-TV.
The incident shut down a part of downtown Milwaukee last month for hours. Someone called in the suspicious backpack that sat on top of an electrical box. Police cleared the area and the bomb squad carefully moved it out into the intersection.
Video shows a man on a bike, now identified as Matthew Hughes, as he grabs the bag, shakes out the contents, then gets tackled.
He says he woke up that morning, and saw TV coverage of the suspicious bag and decided if it’s bomb, he wanted to be a hero.
"As soon as I saw that, I’m like, I’m going to go save the day, take one for the team and jump on it or discard it in the river because it’s been going on for two to three hours," he said.
The contents of the bag turned out to be harmless. Hughes says he loves Milwaukee and he doesn’t want innocent people to get hurt, but because of his actions he could face criminal charges.
Criminal charges?? Nothing happened
Do you also have that view over "attempted" crimes?
If that was a real bomb, he could have killed himself and any others near it. He was interfering with a police operation.
I’d have a lot more sympathy for his position if the bomb squad hadn’t just wired it up to be detonated safely. Like wait 15 more min and they’ll be done.
What if the world was made of pudding?
It is
And i my grandma had two wheels she'd be a bicycle.
A motorless motorcycle that's also a grandma?
Love this reference. My wife and I constantly allude to that clip.
What if he tried to pick up the bag, only to find out it was cake?
Yo, where my dookie goes?
I do wonder about this very often…
Ok officer… 👮
Do they give out a Nobel prize for "attempted" chemistry?
Seems like he took care of it. How exactly did he interfere?
lol
Well there was very clearly nobody else near it lol
Do you understand how explosives work? Do you think they normally have a range of a dozen metres?
If something had happened it would have 100% been his fault. He had no fucking business being there or doing any of that.
What if there was a real bomb in there?
What he did was incredibly stupid, not only for himself but any potential bystanders
What bystanders? The cops closed off the area
Well, that dude managed to get in without much trouble....
He needs to be charged because his behavior was extremely dangerous and could have gotten people killed were it an actual bomb. People need to learn that fucking with anything the bomb squad is doing is a huge no-no.
Also, a number of commenters are unironically trying to argue like Sideshow Bob. "Attempted murder? Now, honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for Attempted Chemistry?"
“I aimed a gun at this guys head but I didn’t pull the trigger. Why am I getting arrested? Nothing happened.”
More like his own head
Which guy's head? The area was cleared off. At worst he put the building's facade in danger.
Littering 😬
He hurt their feelings! Isn’t that criminal enough? -Justice system
what a moron
lol, i love it when sites tell on themselves, can't access it since i'm in the EU and GDPR is a thing here, so what bad thing do they do that they rather cut off access then face the wrath of the EU
They can’t or they don’t want to comply with the cookie banner and stuff like that so they just disable access to non-US. i’ve seen this a lot on small or local websites and I kind of get that they don’t want to do that work to make the site compliant.
lol so I just looked into this, the site uses a CMS called TownHall which is part of the "Total CMS" offered by the company BLOX Digital. Blox's answer to GDPR was to set all of their sites to block EU access by default. Which is just a hilariously ridiculous way to handle this for a CMS company of all things
Don't want do "do the work"? You mean, 'dont want to miss out on selling your info to data brokers'.
Lets call it what it is. Compliance with the GDPR isnt difficult by any means. The owners of these websites are just low-integrity scumbags.
"do the work" is mostly regarding splitting "selling the data" vs "not selling the data". So if they're allowed to be scummy in the US why bother
VPN is your friend.
Paywall remover is your friend here. Much easier than switching VPN to a strange country and suffering extra latency.
https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.wkow.com/news/man-who-intervened-in-milwaukee-bomb-squad-investigation-tells-story/article_af356b00-07dd-5635-b950-ddd80b47afef.html
' MILWAUKEE (WISN) — The man who grabbed a suspicious backpack during a bomb squad investigation and emptied it out before police tackled him is breaking his silence.
"Would I do it again? Yeah, without a doubt," Matthew Hughes told WISN-TV.
The incident shut down a part of downtown Milwaukee last month for hours. Someone called in the suspicious backpack that sat on top of an electrical box. Police cleared the area and the bomb squad carefully moved it out into the intersection.
Video shows a man on a bike, now identified as Matthew Hughes, as he grabs the bag, shakes out the contents, then gets tackled.
He says he woke up that morning, and saw TV coverage of the suspicious bag and decided if it’s bomb, he wanted to be a hero.
"As soon as I saw that, I’m like, I’m going to go save the day, take one for the team and jump on it or discard it in the river because it’s been going on for two to three hours," he said.
The contents of the bag turned out to be harmless. Hughes says he loves Milwaukee and he doesn’t want innocent people to get hurt, but because of his actions he could face criminal charges. '
ctrlc ctrlv
thanks a lot, U.S. citizen
Geen probleem.
Ah, en nederlander? Hartelijk bedankt meneer (of mevrouw).
ever heard about web.archive.org?
https://web.archive.org/web/20251003072045/https://www.wkow.com/news/man-who-intervened-in-milwaukee-bomb-squad-investigation-tells-story/article_af356b00-07dd-5635-b950-ddd80b47afef.html
No US citizenship needed.
Why would he face criminal charges? It looks to me like there was no bomb.
Crossing police tape. Trust that there are laws to stick to him… maybe not anything which would cause a long sentence or DA would prosecute. But he pissed off the cops so their feelings are hurt. 😢
You learn something new every day.
A big concern when loading a single static web page. /s
*sigh* you people need to argue everything, eh? Okay.
If I have a VPN to access the US from where I am, that is a lot of latency, yes.
Is it a lot of latency for one website? Surely not. But I'm not going to connect my VPN to a different country, then switch it back to my low latency VPN end-point, for seeing just one website. Or if I did, that's, like, 30 seconds of extra work. Ain't gonna do that.
instead you'll just take that 30 seconds to bitch on the internet
Yes. I have principles.
web.archive.org is your friend. or archive.is. no vpn needed.
He's a bit of a dumbass
Brave with a tinge of dumbass
That isn't really bravery though, more like suicidal narcissism. He literally said he only did it to be a hero, but there were actual heros already there doing the job properly.
what a dumbass.
regular free proxy works
We are going to die.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
TACKLE THAT MF NOW THAT HE TURNED HIS BACK!!!
Give these three people a medal for serving their country!
THE HIT STICK WAS FOR OFFICER SAFETY AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MY FRAGILE EGO
Heros
The guys who tackle him are absolute pricks. What was the point of that?!?
I mean, I'd guess that they only didn't drag him away immediately because there was obviously some suspicion about there being a bomb in the bag. Better to let the lunatic blow himself up and not everyone else too so they left him at it. The when it was obvious there was nothing in the bag they went straight for him.
Not sure what the whole point was either or why they did it so aggressively, but to be fair, if there just so happened to actually be a bomb in the bag, the guy had just put himself and possibly other people in danger.
He also could have tampered with evidence
Yup. Does that justify assault?
Tampering with what police suspect might be a BOMB? Yes.
You're part of the problem.
There's no justification for that behavior, and you making excuses for and people upvoting is fucking sad.
Punishment for tampering with evidence is a crime and he should be punished for it. That punishment isn't assault. Be better.
What you saw was an explicit civil rights violation and you're on the sidelines cheering?
There is potentially a BOMB sitting there. The cops believe it enough to Block off the area and have BOMB DISPOSAL ONSITE. You can clearly see that in the video.
IDK if yall have been in the vicinity of an actual explosion before, but surprisingly small things can make surprisingly large explosions. Surprisingly mundane things we use every day can also explode, with decently terrifying force.
What if he caused a NON CONTROLLED disposal. Do you know what happens when the disposal isnt controlled?
The bomb explodes as it intends to.
Also we live in a world where bombers will set off their own devices right next to them, either intentionally, or manually as the automatic detonators failed to work...
So putting him on the ground to keep say, an IED, from exploding is the correct call and people upvoting ANYTHING else are being silly.
Police dont always work with what they JUST know. They also work on what COULD happen. This is one of those times pinning a dude, fucking around with what could be a bomb, who needed to be stopped before he set it off. God forbid it was something big, but still able to be hidden in a backpack, like an artillery shell.
But lets worry about the guy being pinned on the ground, not the fact that the dude could have blown up that intersection.
Yep. Cops are fucked and need major reform but not *every single thing they do every single day* is some fucked up abuse of power like some seem to think.
This is the appropriate response to some idiot who interrupts an extremely dangerous situation and you don't know who they are / what their intentions are / if they have a damned bomb in their hand.
Sure, but why tackle him? He wasn't exactly a threat to anyone. Just arrest him, no need for the tackling.
I don't know man. I did point out the level of aggression in it. But I'm guessing the guy was warned several times to step away. I mean there is clearly a procedure that needs to happen here regarding the bag and the guy decided to take it upon himself to (most likely) ignore several people yelling at him and warning him of possible danger.
If there was a bomb, and this video instead showed the dude being blown to pieces, people here would be wondering why nobody wrestled him away.
Edit: I never mentioned about this tackle saving someone's life as someone said below. My point is that they were in all honesty, fucking pissed at this guy's absolute idiocy and disregard for those around him. I'm not excusing it, I'm explaining what probably happened. People just love to twist comments on here in order to get outraged over nothing. An explanation does not equal an excuse.
Except nobody wrestled him away.
Fr. There was nothing being accomplished wirh that tackle except I guess revenge for refusing to follow a verbal order. No one was getting saved by that tackle.
What if he was suicidal and had detonator in his pocket still?
Still? He wasn’t the bomber in the first place
If they were gonna tackle him, (whether he was bomber or not) should’ve been done beforehand, if the bomb was gonna go off it would have went off before they got to him
How does any of that justify assault?
thats now how police brutality works. If they were threatened they wouldnt just charge in like that.
As the previous commenter you replied to mentioned: they didnt tackle him until they were sure there was no bomb, then it was just an unarmed citizen vs armed violent thugs
Because they can and no one will stop them.
But that danger was over. The violence was way over the top.
During the IRA bombing campaigns of the 80s a friends husband found a bomb in the pub he was working in. They called in the police but my mates husband is a little dim and went back in, got the bomb and pulled out the wires defusing it.
The police couldn't believe anybody could be so stupid so arrested him and got a warrant to search his house.
I imagine the tackle was due to them thinking that the guy had planted it there. Seemed a little extreme though in arresting him.
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I think it was more the fact that he could of killed everyone there if it was an actually bomb lol
If that's the case then the cordon wasn't back far enough, would have only killed him and damaged the buildings. On that not how the fuck did he get through the cordon anyway.
Yeah the security definitely could of been better lol
That doesn't make sense.
If the bomb disposal guy had detonated the bomb, then it would be the same outcome. Bomb goes off.
If the bomb did explode, and killed everyone there, then the police and bomb disposal people didn't do their job properly. e.g. clear the area of people
Going by that logic, those guys should have tackled each other!
There's so many procedures that need to be taken place
Exactly, there's a lot of mistakes being made if a guy on his bicycle can just ride right next to the guy in the bomb suit. Some people really fucked up on that day.
Bomb disposal would have detonated it with a protective cover. Plenty of excess damage to surrounding area even if area had been evacuated properly.
Bomb guys don’t wear bomb suits because they are 100% sure they will detonate with a protective cover. They wear the bomb suit because even just the slightest nudge could have set off a bomb.
could have
Coud arf
then why did they let him detonate the bomb?
seriously? if he wanted to, they gave him all day to blow it up
that was a hurt-ego tackle lol
Because for all they know, he could be the suspected bomber trying to manually set off the device. Or they could be worried that his haphazard handling of the bag could detonate a bomb and kill a couple cops or civilians.
He did something extraordinarily stupid by interfering and was lucky it wasn't a bomb. If it had been, he would have killed himself and possibly hurt others.
No one should have been that close
So why tackle him aggressively after the fact?
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He humiliated them on live TV. They definitely can't have that, throw the book at him.
Exactly. He made them look like clowns.
How? How were they clowns? By using caution dealing with an unknown suspicious package?
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How do those boots taste? They could have calmly said, you're under arrest. What need was there for a possible life threatening injury, for him or for the cops, after the event?
At that point, it had been established that there was no bomb, so all it is is a dumb guy who went through a cordon illegally. Jail him, sure.
But there's no need to curb stomp him first.
Cop was way too late to be a hero, so he's just another dumbass putting people in danger.
That's quite cringey assuming I'm some sort of police stan because I'm not surprised he was tackled for doing that. Someone crazy enough to do what he did could have been about to do god knows what, had a weapon on him etc. They didn't shoot him, they tackled him and got him out of there quickly.
Clearly did their training at Uvalde.
"He's no danger tMand has his back turned! GO GO GO!"
Idk, maybe to restrain a guy who apparently just slammed a bag with a bomb in it? Why do you guys always feel bad for the idiots that act like this when they get what they ask for?🤣
I did this in Atlantic City once. I am a bunch of people just saw a random suitcase next to a trash can while we were getting ready to leave. After a bunch of nervous laughs, I open it, and nothing but one of those mayonnaise packets.
Based way to deal with it
So many idiots in this comment section, turns out you don't just get to decide if a bomb threat is real or not as a random bystander, who would've thought.
Right? These people are looney tunes. I wonder how many of them would lose their fucking minds if they realized that this is an example of someone taking away their ability to choose their own fate. Self-governance if you will.
Wow what a massive fucking dumbass
or just the bag owner
Nah he said in an interview that he just wanted to be a hero. Literally saw it on the news and decided he was the best equipped to deal with it.
Darwin award winner right there.
Darwin Award winners must lose their ability to reproduce.
Lol I mean generally isn’t the point of the Darwin Awards that the people who get nominated/win the awards are dead bc of their award-worthy behavior? They take themselves out via self-natural selection.
I would think being blown to bits would qualify
It would if that had happened.
Is it really a darwin award when the guy knew he might die? I feel like darwin awards apply to people risking death unknowingly out of stupidity rather than knowingly.
Yes because it’s completely unnecessary, if bomb squad is there they will eventually figure out there is nothing there without him doing anything, if there is actually a bomb in there he’ll die trying to prove there is nothing in the bag. Pointless involvement
But he wasn’t trying to prove there wasnt a bomb, he literally just wanted to die a hero if there actually WAS a bomb, not any less stupid by any means, but context is important.
No, this very much would have been a Darwin award. What he did was incredibly stupid, unhelpful and dangerous.
or 'an hero'
Holy shit. What he did was stupid, but I was not prepared for the comedic timing with that tackle. I didn’t think I’d laugh that hard.
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It’s wild to think that he was trying to do something altruistic but if he actually blew up and was killed, I feel like most people wouldn’t appreciate his effort and would just call him an idiot.
If I could simulate that exact scenario for him vividly, I wonder if he would change his mind and let the bomb squad deal with the backpack.
Became that would be idiotic, yeah.
Also, he said himself he wasn’t trying to help other people. He wanted to be a hero. That’s self-aggrandizement, not altruism.
He might not know it, but you can be help people immensely and not be recognized. But in this circumstance, he wanted everyone to applaud him more than he wanted to actually help anyone.
You can tell by how he didn’t help anyone.
Worse, if he blew up and killed himself and other people or damaged some buildings so severely they would collapse.
People on the internet are so deranged sometimes lol. Hating the EODs and police for investigating a public safety threat, an objectively good thing and use of police time, because they are obviously omnipotent and just wanted to waste everyone’s time
That's a crime btw, trespassing, and potentially causing oneself/more in extreme danger if the bag was an actual bomb. He deserves to be tackled down. That's not hero behaviour, that's straight up ignorance.
Imagine if every single bomb situation you have random pedestrian jumping into what potentially be a bomb device, that'd be a problem isn't it? People could've died.
Any argument that says "but he's fine, it wasn't a bomb", is absolutely narrow minded.
Never mind the trespassing and causing himself harm, there were other people in the vicinity. Sure, they had been moved back. Was it far enough? I don’t know.
And I don’t usually go for property as a thing to care about, but if you’re the business owner that gets their windows blown up and their front facade turned into a biohazard out mess of shrapnel and idiot, are you gonna be happy to pay the deductible on that insurance claim? Or can you eat the cost of closing for the time it will take to clean up and repair? What about the staff at those businesses? Can they just stay home and not receive any income for the duration?
People just aren’t in the habit of thinking of other people it seems.
Saw this before
Had a ton of people in the comments section think the police were stupid or bad or whatever for tackling the guy after because obviously there wasn’t a bomb in there.
Clearly the police knew this, and just wanted to spend a ton of time, some money, and effort messing around and blocking off a large area for several hours and impeding traffic for funsies.
Or perhaps, a person in one of the nearby office buildings reported a suspicious bag even saying he thinks there could be something dangerous in it and the police came to do their job.
And some dingus, the man in the video, literally quoted in an interview (after) saying he wanted to be a hero ran in to try and “defuse” (explode) the possible bomb because he believed he was the only person capable.
But of course according to Redditors, the police being omnipotent as they are, knew all of this and decided to tackle him anyways because they got embarrassed.
Not because there may have been an explosive device in there, or because he could be the potential bomber, or whatever.
I guess the police should’ve just ignored the call made by a civilian and shrugged saying “if it’s a bomb, it’s a bomb. Not my problem if it kills a bunch of people.”
The lack of critical thought and reasoning, and the hatred of police so blinding that people say some of the things with full conviction in this comment section and all the prior ones, never ceases to amaze me
The completely unnecessary violence is the main problem here. Absolutely no need at all to do that. You can easily kill someone by doing that on a hard surface. He’s posing no threat to anyone at that point and there’s no argument for such violence.
What’s unnecessary about tackling an idiot who endangered the public and broke laws and was then trying to walk away from it?
If he was blown up because there was a bomb, I can guarantee you’d be saying “I wish the police tackled him beforehand.”
For all the police know at the time, he COULD BE the bomber and could’ve grabbed it or something or been trying to set it off on purpose.
Would you want the police to let the possible bomber just freely walk away back into a public space? Because they didn’t know if he was the bomber.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JVJzwgqZ9U
I love how they takle him, if it was a bomb, they’d all be dead.
Smart move!
The kid was wrong, he broke the law, but seriously fuck that pig who tackled him after things were safe.
So of course, obviously, he puts himself and others at risk unnecessarily.
Protocol exists for a reason.
The comments in here framing how he actually did something great because nothing bad happened are completely missing the point.
Uncalled for
He shouldve put it on and biked away.
Nice how these absolute bums waited until he completley emptied the bag. First you gotts do their job and that’s how you get thanked for it.
Do their job? He didn’t do their job.
He didn’t dispose of or disarm any explosives in a safe way at all. He just ran up, and ripped everything out. If there was an explosive, it wouldn’t have been just him that ate it.
Fuck that guy especially. He doesn’t get to choose how other people risk their lives.
no, the 911 call was about a suspicious backpack. to which, this is the correct response. no one said the word "bomb". morons blocked off a downtown area for 3+ hours, inventing non-existent threats.
Bomb squads don’t fling possible IEDs haphazardly all over the place so he isn’t doing their job
If there was a bomb in it, he would have detonated it in the way the bomber wanted it to be. EOD’s job is to not do that
I assume the safety training in this situation is to ensure you and any bystanders keep a safe distance until the idiot has stopped tampering with the potential explosive and then arrest them as soon as possible for needlessly putting others lives at risk.
I'm so glad you aren't handling anything involving the safety of anyone other than yourself because you would be horrible at it
If he got blown to bits his people would get a shark-like attorney and sue the city, the police dept and the backpack manufacturer for million$.
Why the backpack manufacturer?
Lol that would never work
lmfao, I hope they let him off with a misdemeanor
No. Very likely a felony.
It was an established crime scene and while nothing happened, there was still a chance the dude could have blown up an intersection.
It'll be obstruction at the most. No way this'll get taken up by the prosecutor & escalated to anything else after that hit on video.
The jail's are overcrowded as-is & wether he's guilty or not he's well within his right to sue the PD.
They'll plea him out & he'll walk.
Amateur bomb disposal. That's a new one.
"Son of a B.....! Now we must go to the office!"
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Aah now you are a cop again
Please go off, please go off, god damn it
idiocracy
Wow
I like that they waited for him to finish, then they tackled him
Lol I love how they waited to be sure it wasnt going to explode. And then tackled him like they were stopping it from exploding
The department will call the cops that blindsided him the "real heros"
I love that the "brave men and women of law enforcement" rushed in at light speed to tackle and arrest him...... juuuuuuust after they were 100% sure he proved that there wasnt the bomb in the backpack.
I read his public statement. I don’t get it. What made him think he’d be a hero? He had no idea what was in there. He had no idea what the potential blast radius could be, if it was chemical or if it was just shrapnel, or if there was anything that he DID that could’ve set one off. Bombs are fragile and defusing takes time for a reason. Moving can set one off. While defusing, the wrong action can set it off. Correct action but too fast or too slow can set it off. And if it has motion sensors connected, nearby movement can set it off. This takes time for a reason. He needs help.
That tackle was probably personal at that point! 🤣🤣
Why did they have to tackle him so violently? Did they want to maximize damage or what's their problem?
Cops are assholes
There was no reason to tackle him bro
I wonder how much it cost to deploy the bomb squad. That dude just showed the cops they weren't needed and they decided to punish him for it. Go "operate" elsewhere fellas.
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Dude wtf, why do people use these tracking links all the time? Are you getting paid by Google?
Agreed just share the article.
https://www.wkow.com/news/man-who-intervened-in-milwaukee-bomb-squad-investigation-tells-story/article_af356b00-07dd-5635-b950-ddd80b47afef.html
Google Chrome share button does this automatically. Most people don't know how else to copy a link.
People don't know that last bit is tracking unfortunately
When it is just the last part at least then I can remove the tracking part, but with share.google or others it's impossible to get the original link, without tracking.
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Homeboy's got issues. Three hours of inconvenience? Yup, better go kill myself instead of letting the professionals handle it. That's worth it.
"Could face criminal charges" is crazy.
What about the person who called in a "suspicious backpack" for no reason. Nothing wrong with that.
But some bystander, fully aware of the possible risk is willing to prove that it's just a backpack. And he's gonna get in trouble for that.
Yes, because had it had been a bomb and he blew himself up there would have been massive amounts of cleanup and repairs needed and it would have cost thousands. The bloke was a twat and deserves everything he gets.
The person phoning it in had no idea what it was so did the right thing by phoning it in. More people need to understand this because the one day everyone ignores it, people die !.
That was some Uvalde level polilce work at the end.
It was his bag
So despite being proven completely and irredeemably wrong, the comment section still treats the harmless backpack as if it's an armed nuclear bomb. Someone called 911 over a case of lost and found. Extra points for this being in downtown Milwaukee.