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In reply to the discussion: Indiana BLACK grandmother suffers violent SWAT raid after a neighbor uses her wireless internet [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)And that is what you accused him of saying. It's not "silly parsing"--it's trying to nitpick, meaninglessly, instead of addressing the big points, such as police overreach, bad investigatory practices, and lack of common sense. It's was never about someone calling a house a person.
Being situated at a "physical location" (a house) is not the same as calling a house a person.
A secured internet connection would put a broadcaster at a specific physical location. An unsecured connection can put a person some distance away.
The point here is that it isn't unreasonable for the police to narrow down the perpetrator using IP address as a first step. We are not talking about "court cases" here, we're talking about investigatory police work. They should have investigated a bit further, though, and the Smart Phone information would have clarified their "perp" without busting up Grandmother Milan's home.