{"id":1658847,"date":"2022-09-26T16:36:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T20:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1658847"},"modified":"2022-09-26T16:37:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T20:37:13","slug":"fbi-responds-to-reports-that-swat-team-was-used-to-arrest-pro-life-activist-in-front-of-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-responds-to-reports-that-swat-team-was-used-to-arrest-pro-life-activist-in-front-of-children\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Responds to Reports That \u2018SWAT Team\u2019 Was Used to Arrest Pro-Life Activist in Front of Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffbi-responds-to-reports-that-swat-team-was-used-to-arrest-pro-life-activist-in-front-of-children%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1658847&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-fbi\">FBI<\/a> on Monday responded to media reports and claims that it sent a SWAT team to raid the Pennsylvania home of pro-life activist Mark Houck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are inaccurate claims being made regarding the arrest of Mark Houck. No SWAT Team or SWAT operators were involved,\u201d the FBI Philadelphia office told The Epoch Times. \u201cFBI agents knocked on Mr. Houck\u2019s front door, identified themselves as FBI agents, and asked him to exit the residence. He did so and was taken into custody without incident pursuant to an indictment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When reached for comment, the bureau did not directly address claims made by Houck\u2019s wife,\u00a0Ryan-Marie Houck, that agents had their guns drawn and pointed them at her and Mark Houck, however.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile it\u2019s the FBI\u2019s standard practice not to discuss such operational specifics, we can say that the number of personnel and vehicles widely reported as being on scene Friday is an overstatement, and the tactics used by FBI personnel were professional, in line with standard practices, and intended to ensure the safety of everyone present in and outside the residence,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI also did not address an allegation that their children could see the arrest and \u201cwere all just screaming\u201d while the arrest was being carried out. The bureau\u2019s comment to The Epoch Times on Monday also appears to be a boilerplate FBI statement that was sent to other news outlets about Houck\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The agents \u201chad big, huge rifles pointed at Mark and pointed at me and kind of pointed throughout the house,\u201d Ryan-Marie Houck <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/fbi-raids-home-of-catholic-pro-life-speaker-author-with-guns-drawn-as-his-terrified-kids-watch\/\">told<\/a> LifeSite News. \u201cOur staircase is open, so [the kids] were all at the top of the stairs which faces the front door, and I was on the stairs as well, coming down,\u201d she said. \u201cThe kids were all just screaming. It was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI on Monday responded to media reports and claims that it sent a SWAT team to raid the Pennsylvania home of pro-life activist Mark Houck. \u201cThere are inaccurate claims being made regarding the arrest of Mark Houck. No SWAT Team or SWAT operators were involved,\u201d the FBI Philadelphia office told The Epoch Times. \u201cFBI [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1658847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}