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Around 3:45 pm Friday afternoon, the Antioch Police Department responded to Bole Ct. in Antioch where police had a home surrounded with a subject barricaded inside.
It’s unclear at this time why police surrounded the home with guns drawn, but according to radio traffic the subject inside was armed and challenged police to shoot him. Police requested he come out, however, he declined.
The incident caused police to block off Caldera Way and there were a total of nine police cars on scene including a helicopter for air support.
Officers remained on scene for nearly an hour before calling the incident due to another priority call that came in across town and other pending calls.
Here are photos from the incident:
17 comments
As always great photos. Thank you for what you do Antioch PD each day in trying to keep the community safe. My only hope is the City Council can see what you guys do and stop screwing the people out of what was promised.
Antioch cops are a bunch of clowns,let me get this story straight, the cops shut down the block, pull out their AR15’s and surround the home …… And then leave this moron inside due to other calls ? Seriously ? What a bunch of B.S . Antioch P.D you suck, and to the guy who pulled the gun out and then locked himself in his home, you are a coward …..
@Chris,
Keep in mind someone made a judgement call. Person in the home had technically not hurt anyone and maybe only would hurt himself (big maybe)… meanwhile across town you had subjects walk into a Jewelry store and shots were fired with 2-people shot (one whom died). Another subject fled.
Where would you put the resources? I think the right call was made.
I think the point is, that if they left that situation after it unfolded the way it did, unresolved, perhaps the overwhelming response with weapons, was overkill. Follow up reporting on the unresolved situation, would be nice, so we could understand what really happened.
Overkill is the first response of nearly every medium to large urban police force these days to nearly every action they take. Just look at what has transpired in the last 30 years with police response and militarization. Fact is, since we have no counter facts on what happened to the “perp” errr citizen, is that NOTHING happened. Proof that once again the police over react to a situation. Often they make things worse with these types of response.
Wow Chris I think maybe you should apply for one of those fake and APD jobs maybe they need a smart person like you. Idiot
Sure Burk, have to prioritize for calls that have a real need. But… if they surrounded the home with nearly a Marine squad sized force with assault weapons drawn, this was only one step from being a full blown SWAT style assault, right? Then… they up and leave (as I previously stated, with just cause to face a real threat), and what happens?
NOTHING.
The crazy loud mouth “allegedly” with a gun who “barricaded” himself inside (shut his door and told police to go get a warrant, a right we protect in this country, if they want to join him inside his home) and then he did nothing.
He didn’t rampage around Antioch murdering people, he didn’t kill everyone in his home, he didn’t climb a watchtower and snipe shots at innocent bystanders.
NOTHING.
This is just another of a myriad of over-reactionary militaristic responses to people who otherwise would largely be ignored. Sure, the “what if…” people will now respond with all of their crazy “what if he did…” scenarios, but there is one incontrovertible truth to all of this, and that is that once the military, errrrrr, “police” left the scene, the situation deescalated on its own with no harm and no foul. The dude calmed down and went about his business. No law had been broken.
While I’m at it, why is it then when I shut my door or refuse to answer my door if the police are knocking without a warrant, it’s called “barricading” by the media? Why is my stating to people through my door that I have a gun anything other than a warning to those who may enter? Why isn’t it called “a citizen exercising his rights refused entry into his home to police today who were attempting to gain entry without just cause nor a warrant”? We have a right to be secure in our homes and to keep and bear arms, and all too often this right is demonstrated as hyperbole by the media and the people rightfully exercising those rights as the criminals. Can’t count how many times I’ve seen pictures by the media of a persons “arsenal” of legally owned weapons paraded in front of cameras like they are some sort of real threat, most times 10-22s and other such rifles legally purchased and owned like it’s the back up armory for Pattons 3rd Army, all the while the sheeple in this country think they’re seeing something really bad. Guns! Oh My God!!! Help! Sheesh.
You’d all do yourself a good justice and pick up the book by Radley Balko titled “Rise of the Warrior Cop”, it would open your eyes to how scenarios like this are more often the first response by police, and that they largely violate so many basic rights we protect here in America it would change your perspective.
While you’re at it, read the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, then read them again, and once more for good measure.
Of course, I do support the police in their endeavors when they are just in cause, but I think they only use two tools in the toolbox, heavy force, and extremely heavy force. They seem to always bypass the other measures available in many instances in their tool box.
@Righteous in the Wood, You are correct, and the book you mention “Rise of the Warrior Cop” is an EXCELLENT book, and Burkholder should read it (it’ll open his eyes to his world outside of eastern Contra Costa County, and what direction police departments are headed in with regards to enforcing laws, and carrying out their day to day activities — at the direction of the “Tough on Crime” elected politicians. who view the Constitution as just a “guideline” — not the law of the land). @Burkholder, by the way, “Rise of the Warrior Cop” is NOT an anti-police book, and the author is NOT some anti-establishment, anti-government “crackpot” or dare I say the word …. a LIBERAL.
@Righteous in the ‘Wood, Don’t fault the cops for the actions they take on incidents like the one on Bole Court, had they not taken the steps they took in dealing with that call, they would have been “raked through the hot coals” by everyone in the media who LOVE to HYPE up a story — just as you wrote !! In a nutshell, they were able to determine that the guy in the house was NOT a threat to anyone but himself — that is why they left the location. Don’t think you get the whole story from reading some “blurb” on eastcountytoday.net or the newspaper, and just assume the cops were using “heavy handed tactics” that are described in the book “Rise of the Warrior Cop” — they didn’t use the tactics described in the book in this case, just having assault rifles doesn’t necessarily qualify as being “heavy handed tactics”.
@Righteous in the ‘Wood, But don’t fault the officers for doing what they are supposed to do in situations like this. They acted and responded correctly, discovered there was no crime to have occurred or occurring and left to handle a robbery with two shootings.
I agree wholeheartedly with what Radley Balko points out in his book, but in this incident on Bole Court, the police were not “heavy handed”, in fact based on the pictures Ole Burk posted, the police looked to be kind of complacent standing so close to a house, not behind cover, especially with a suspected armed individual inside.
The media/press love to used the terms “Barricaded Subject”, “Armed to the teeth”, etc to make money, and to say they have “Exclusive Breaking News about a ….. (whatever)”.
I think it’s because there’s not enough APD officers. They needed to get to the Jewelry Store Robbery.
Not a good sign when it is back to back priority calls. I don’t blame hard working law abiding citizens who decided to leave this god forsaken city for a higher quality of life.
Flat out ridiculous crime and flat out ridiculous administration by the Mayor and Council.
Wake up residents and demand change. Safety shouldn’t be a carrot to be dangled in our face in order to pass higher taxes and the like.
talk is cheap. what are each of you doing to make Antioch a safer environment for all?
Unless you were there, spoke with the person in charge of the this call or have further official insight from the police you are only guessing at why they left. Protocol does not allow them to leave a situation like that unresolved. If it was ongoing they would have called out the SWAT team. Any clown knows that.
Please try to be more informed before you send people down a rabbit trail. Not every call disposition is detailed in the clear over the radio. That information will only be available from APD. But if you continue to turn out senseless journalism like this you won’t find anyone willing to speak with you.
+1
I have to agree with RITW. The militaristic type responses tell us the police are moving towards a military state that our founders never wanted. To deploy a swat style response on a hunch is problematic of the police. I love them but some police are just too aggressive for no reason. If a person in the their home does not want the outside to infringe their privacy and rights, a swat response is dangerous to society. Go get the robbers, rapists, and murderers if you want to flash your assault weapons.
To all who responded to my response, there is little to disagree with in your responses. I overtly approve of the police actions taken in most instances, and they have my full and undivided support in their endeavors to make our communities safe and crime free. I do however wish to emphasize that this support only comes when I agree with their response to a given situation. Those who pointed out that there is more to what we see in Burks pics are correct, I nor most of us were not there, so judgement is easy to pass on based solely on how the pictures pictures are presented. One may see a good response based on their views, others (myself included in this grouping) will see once again the police pulling out a hammer from the toolbox where maybe a tape measure should first have been applied. Opinions vary, that much we certainly can all agree on. I only wish to present to those here that there are many instances where this type of activity is all too often the only tool in the Police toolbox. It is a response we need to start to understand and to work to reduce its use of.
Thanks to all for a good discussion.
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