Serious Weapons Around Thayer (S.W.A.T.)
Thanks to an alert ThayerAvenue.com reader for this info – and the photo.
Tuesday morning saw some interesting police activity on Thayer Avenue. While the photo above gives some immediate context (with that god-awful house at the corner of Houston and Thayer on the left), the thumbnail below will take you to a much larger image. This is the end of the activity, unfortunately, as everyone was getting back in the vans, but reports indicate there were at least a dozen or so officers, clad in black bulletproof gear with large automatic weapons.
They walked a bit down Thayer from where these vans were parked, “inspected” a house, and then left. Appeared they simply stayed on the periphery and had some discussions about what to do, or perhaps debated the merits of early-20th-century residential architecture. Who knows. But it didn’t appear to be anything requiring firearms discharge.
If anyone has any more information on what the hell is going on in our ‘hood, would love to hear it.
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Maybe scouting for another Discovery filming location? See TakomaDC fiasco in news of late
I bet they were sent by Housing Code enforcement to make sure that the gray house at the speed bump has been properly converted to a single-family residence.
BTW, thanks go to the petty bourgeois neighbor who reported my landlord’s zoning violation and had me exiled from Thayer. I am living in a much better place now.
I wonder…did the police respond to a false alarm, or go to the wrong address, or were they on the trail of zombies?
My money’s on zombies.
Eric, why don’t you file a request for a police report about that incident? As a nearby resident, you certainly have good reason to see it. A few days ago, I heard that there was some activity on a street near Thayer, a “domestic” incident. Domestic incidents can be deadly.
If I were a police officer approaching a house with a strong indication of armed suspects, I might want SWAT. There are too many automatic weapons floating around these days.
Your post and the comments imply that this was an overly intense response. But it sounds like nobody got hurt.