Lengthy article on the incident last year where 7 officers were shot, two fatally, in Florence, SC.
https://www.postandcourier.com/news/...de1999a5d.html
You’d be hard pressed to find better reasoning for LE to have armored vehicles than this incident.On Oct. 3, two days after the park meeting, Farrah secures a search warrant, then gathers a team to head for the Hopkins’ house. But first, she runs a routine computerized program that assesses potential dangers to deputies based on such factors as the incident location and the history of the people involved.
It identifies no need for particular caution.
As the team heads out, none of them thinks much about Seth’s father, Frederick Hopkins, a 74-year-old Vietnam combat veteran and sharpshooter with well over 100 firearms in his home collection.