He was NOT "terrorizing police." They're an effing SWAT team. Are they now going to throw "terrorizing police" at anyone that resists arrest while holed up at home?
Yep. Abuse of the 'T' word is the new norm.
Read the news with any semblance of regularity and you're certain to encounter any number of cases in which a single person who has threatened ONE other person has been charged with "terroristic threatening" -- even if the person making the threat didn't threaten to use anything more "menacing" than his fists. This is what I refer to as prosecutorial over-reach. The actual crime is "threatening," but "terroristic threatening" just sounds so much more serious and dangerous and bad and evil and naughty that the aw-thaw-ri-tays can't stop themselves from using it. And in most of the cases the judges don't have the cajones to tell the prosecutor that the charge doesn't make sense, either charge properly or go home.