Yeah I am downsizing at the moment, and paperbacks don’t last forever. If John Varley had his books on Kindle (they aren’t where I live) then I would just buy them again.
I think section 3 is the relevant one.
(3) Intentionally initiate or circulate a report of a past, present, or impending bombing, fire or other emergency, knowing that the report is false or baseless and knowing:
(A) It will cause action of any sort by an official or volunteer agency organized to deal with those emergencies; (B) It will place a person in fear of imminent serious bodily injury; or (C) It will prevent or interrupt the occupation of any building, place of assembly, form of conveyance, or any other place to which the public has access.
The logic being that parking outside a church, etc in a similar van to the one that blew up playing similar audio was done deliberately to give the impression that there was another bomb and that that constitutes “initiating” a bomb report.
Tampering with the sound system would then be tampering with “evidence” since the sound system was used to play the audio.
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Yep, nothing to see here.
And if he had been a man of color how might of things been different I wonder…
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Especially this part…
“They saw no evidence of a crime and had no authority to enter his home or fenced property,” Aaron said of officers’ unsuccessful attempt to make contact with Warner or look inside the RV.
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It’s as if the war on terror was only a war on certain groups of people.
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"Officers saw his RV behind the house, but the vehicle was fenced off and police were unable to see inside of it, the report said. While there, police noted that there were “several security cameras and wires attached to a alarm sign on the front door.”
Damn. Yeah, he was “not on their radar.” They might want to get that radar looked at. I think it is faulty;.
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Having installed a couple few security and/or surveillance systems over the years, I cannot imagine a sane reason to wire anything to either a sign or a door (other than sensors on every door and window). So that is either an oddly mangled description, or a very large red flag that needed no external circuitry to flash alarmingly.
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And that was my reading, exactly.
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However, we still require some level of proof of criminal activity before we want the police busting down doors and arresting people, or isn’t that a big issue here after all? “I had a bad feeling about it” doesn’t suffice when an LEO is shooting someone for walking while black, and it shouldn’t suffice in other situations either. We really don’t want preemptive policing, do we.
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scooped upthread by several posters, oops–sorry!
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The lack of consistency is infuriating, but in spirit, you are correct. In this case, though, they could’ve pursued a warrant to search the property and opted not to. I’m not saying they needed to pull a midnight armed SWAT attack like they did on Breonna Taylor, or bust in on a naked woman on the word of a criminal informant like they did in Chicago, but these LEOs had credible reports of someone building bombs and making threats. It’s almost as if because it was reported by a female and the suspect was a white man, they just didn’t care. 
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Excepting that it wasn’t “I had a feeling”; it was someone that knew him well saying that he was making bombs - which she witnessed.
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Yeah, it’s a lot like that, isn’t it? 
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But is she sure she saw what she thought she saw? Maybe her primitive lady brain got confused by a homemade clock.
/s
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But these bombs were made in the home - so they’re completely under the job description of homemaker.
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? They had a witness saying he was making bombs.
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