A man is in custody after a SWAT stand-off in southeast Houston that lasted several hours Saturday.

It happened in the 7700 block of Leonara near Telephone Road and Bellfort.

The suspect’s mother said a police officer shot at her son even though according to her, he was not a threat to them.

“I told them, ‘I can handle. Allow me to talk. Let me see him.’ They say , ‘No,'” Blanca Medina said.

Police said the man pointed a shotgun at one of their officers while they were trying to talk to him.

“At one point during the exchange with the suspect, (the suspect) manages to raise the shotgun and he pointed it directly in the direction of the patrol sergeant,” said HPD spokesman Victor Senties.

Police said the suspect did that twice and both times the officer fired at the man.

The officer’s bullets apparently struck the burglar bars the man was standing behind in the home and miraculously missed him. Neither the officer nor the suspect was injured in the gunfire.

The man proceeded to lock himself in his town house and at some point his girlfriend was able to get out of the home. Police then brought in heavy SWAT equipment and after several hours, tear gas canisters were fired into the town home.

Shortly afterward police announced the situation was under control and the suspect was in custody.

The trouble apparently started over something the suspect posted on Facebook yesterday. His live-in girlfriend apparently became upset after seeing the post and the couple began a marathon argument.

By Saturday morning, the man reportedly became suicidal and picked up a knife.

Senties said the man’s girlfriend called paramedics and when police showed up, the four and a half hour stand-off began. The suspect is now in custody possibly facing charges of aggravated assault of a public servant.

Senties said officers are glad no one was seriously injured.

Nothing says elementary school career day more than men dressed in paramilitary swat gear with fully automatic M4s draped across their chests.  That was the scene this past Friday at the Webb Elementary School“Career Day” in Arlington, Texas where members of the local SWAT team attended and spoke to the children about their job as a hired gun for the corrupt political class.

The Arlington PD proudly posted pictures of their SWAT officers talking in front of a large group of impressionable school children to their Facebook page on Friday.  Ironically, this very swat team made international headlines in 2013 when they wrongfully raided a local organic farm to serve a search warrant for marijuana.  As it turned out they didn’t find any drugs, but they seized 17 blackberry bushes, 15 okra plants, 14 tomatillo plants … native grasses and sunflowers.  I’m guessing they didn’t mention that part of their job to the attentive audience.

According to an extensive study by the ACLU on the militarization of police, 62% of all SWAT activity includes serving warrants for small amounts of drugs.  In other words, most of the SWAT team’s time is spent terrorizing peaceful pot smokers, or non-violent drug dealers and initiating violence where it is morally unjustified.  I understand that politicians have deemed a plant to be illegal, and granted an imaginary authority to a group of violent men dressed as soldiers to raid private property, and throw peaceful people in a cages.  However, I find this behavior to be completely outside the realm of natural law and should be demonized by anyone and everyone who understand these atrocities being carried out by the state.  Even more reprehensible is that these violent men are being paraded in front of children in a tax payer funded school, in full riot gear, as if they have a noble role in society.

However, not so surprisingly, hoards of of boot-licking citizens flocked to the comment section below the photos to thank the department for “all they do”…

Unfortunately, I have news for Paul, Karen, Hector and all the others who blew smoke up the ass of their oppressors.  Those guns, and scary looking costumes are statistically not used for your safety.  They are used to wage war against your neighbor, your grand-kids, your local farmer, or anyone who challenges the status quo.  According to newly available statistics, American citizens are 58 times more likely to be killed by the police than a terrorist.  So, to glorify these killing machines is to be ignorant of reality.

Watch a SWAT raid in Ft. Worth which left one man dead

Original article by Brett Sanders