A draft Justice Department report on the police response to demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer finds -- and we hope you're sitting down here -- that the heavily armed police were heavy-handed in their tactics, poorly coordinated, and tended to make tensions between police and protesters worse. Who'd have guessed?
As I was reading this, KUOW was teasing a story on policing in Great Britain, where exactly three people have died at the hands of police in the last three years.
Those are jobs they can get, unfortunately, and ones which allow them to stave off the uncertainties of civilian life by continuing to be constantly armed. They stay in the combat mentality, separate from and suspicious of the community, which is not what we need in cops.
I understand it completely. These guys (the Ferguson PD) have absolutely no business wielding military-grade weapons, and their leadership would have been summarily relieved if they tried this shit in the Army, at least. The leadership is SUPPOSED to be the "adult supervision" of all those kids with military-grade weapons.
They were looking to get a full blown riot started so they could play with more of their toys (with live rounds) and take care (in the "take care of them, Lord Vader" sense) of some "animals" in the neighborhood.
Lazy poors. They *could* subvert the laws of physics; they just don't want to.
You really can’t call it “full Apocalypse Now” because theDOD shorted the Ferguson PD on their Napalm order.
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As I was reading this, KUOW was teasing a story on policing in Great Britain, where exactly three people have died at the hands of police in the last three years.
http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/policing-without-guns/
Sorry, fellas. Can't cosplay as the 101st Airborne anymore.
Man, you can't tell me those weapons were peace-tied!
Those are jobs they can get, unfortunately, and ones which allow them to stave off the uncertainties of civilian life by continuing to be constantly armed. They stay in the combat mentality, separate from and suspicious of the community, which is not what we need in cops.
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Wingnut butthurt is the BEST!
Also, we didn't get any Wagner.
The ex-troops will understand it. That's how they talk in the military.
Could have been anybody.
The only response I have to this is "duh!"
I understand it completely. These guys (the Ferguson PD) have absolutely no business wielding military-grade weapons, and their leadership would have been summarily relieved if they tried this shit in the Army, at least. The leadership is SUPPOSED to be the "adult supervision" of all those kids with military-grade weapons.
They were looking to get a full blown riot started so they could play with more of their toys (with live rounds) and take care (in the "take care of them, Lord Vader" sense) of some "animals" in the neighborhood.
"Driving while blah" is not to be trifled with.