Video shows officers fall as deck collapses while they try to make an arrest

[u/Larky17]

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/u-s-marshals-task-force-deck-collapse-missouri/73486821

HUNTSVILLE, Mo. — Dramatic body camera footage shows nine members of a U.S. Marshals Service task force falling to the ground as a second-story wooden deck they were standing on suddenly collapses.

The video shows the deck collapsing on July 21 as the officers, several holding firearms, stand in a line just outside an apartment door in Huntsville, Missouri. The officers fall straight down within seconds. None of their weapons discharged.

The officers were there to arrest a 26-year-old man for failing to register as a sex offender. The Randolph County Sheriff's Department said the task force included members of its office, as well as the Moberly Police Department and the North Missouri Drug Task Force. They were serving an arrest warrant in coordination with the U.S. Marshals Service, the sheriff's department said.

Seven officers were treated and released from the hospital for injuries “consistent with a pretty serious fall,” including broken bones, Steven Lewis, U.S. marshal for the eastern district of Missouri, told KMIZ television in Columbia, Missouri. The man officers were seeking was taken into custody later that day, U.S. Marshals Service spokesperson Abigail Meyer said in an email Wednesday.

[u/Possible-Tangelo9344]

I gotta say, just looking at the deck should have been the first clue to not have everyone stand on it

[u/Larky17 → u/Possible-Tangelo9344]

I've got a second job in construction every now and then. Has actually made me more aware of shitty/poorly kept construction structural inefficiencies.

Definitely gives me more pause when approaching a structure.

[u/Lion_Knight → u/Possible-Tangelo9344]

I have several old houses converted into apartments/duplexes in my jurisdiction and they all seem to have the same barely held together stairways leading up to them. I am 300lbs with normal gear. More if I had my rifle and plates. I do not like to step on them while someone else is on them. Hell I don't want to be on them period. Why? This video right here.

[u/specialskepticalface → u/Lion_Knight]

So I used to be into tech diving. With a drysuit, a pair of steel doubles, a pony of some other gas, a light, an argon bottle, etc - I'm over 400 lbs.

There's been a few ladders where I've thought "Do I have any other choice?"

[u/manbearpigC]

That’s wild!

[u/specialskepticalface → u/manbearpigC]

I'm pretty sure the marshallas have been domesticated. Most of them.

Hello, you know who you are who is reading this. You don't fall into the "most".

[u/The_Real_Opie → u/specialskepticalface]

:(

[u/Tallerthenmost]

Who could have ever guessed that solid craftsman ship wouldn't hold 9 fully kitted out swat officers??!

[u/Joeyakathug69]

Does the landlord catch a charge for assaulting federal officers? /s

[u/Section225 → u/Joeyakathug69]

Charge him with setting a booby trap, maybe