Your friendly neighborhood policeman is becoming your not-so-friendly neighborhood Army Ranger. The riots in Ferguson, Mo., a small suburb of St. Louis, have demonstrated to a surprised public that the typical cop has weapons that only a few armies in the world can boast.
A review of photographs and videos shows that police in Ferguson confronted rioters decked out in Kevlar vests, night-vision goggles and helmets, and armed with AR-15 and M4 semi-automatic rifles, grenade launchers and fighting knives. The cops looked ready to take Omaha Beach. Most of the heavy weaponry, in fact, came from the Pentagon.
Included in the haul recently delivered to Ferguson and St. Louis County police includes, according to Defense Department documents reviewed by ABC News, “six .45-caliber pistols, 12 rifles, two sight reflexes, one explosive-ordnance disposal robot, one helicopter, seven utility trucks, three trailers, one motorized cart, one pair of elbow pads, one pair of kneepads, one industrial-strength face shield, and two night-vision viewers and computers.”
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But we cannot cut the military budget right?
ReplyDeleteAnd if this was the big deal that you claim it to be, the problems in Ferguson would have been effectively dealt with on the first night. And how dare ANYONE question a cop's right to Kevlar?? Frankly, that is beneath contempt. And no, I'm not a cop.
ReplyDeleteAnd how dare ANYONE question a cop's right to Kevlar?? Frankly, that is beneath contempt. And no, I'm not a cop.
ReplyDeleteAugust 19, 2014 at 5:56 PM
You live by the sword, you die by the sword.
"You live by the sword, you die by the sword."
ReplyDeleteThat's original. As I stated - 'beneath contempt'.
By whatever means. he had to defend himself & perp was killed. TFB!
ReplyDeleteAgree with 5:56
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