RE: Ferguson: too much or not enough?
August 16, 2014 at 2:14 pm
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2014 at 2:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 16, 2014 at 12:02 pm)Minimalist Wrote: This is a mainly white police force guarding a mainly black population. They seem to think of themselves as an army of occupation.Well, they certainly have the gear, eh? You know what's amusing to me, when I was a NATO peacekeeper, in an infantry unit, we used a lesser escalation of force and less aggressive equipment and tactics, you know, while we were maintaining the peace in a former warzone in which attempted genocide had gone down recently. We left all of our favorite toys back in Germany - and treated the locals with kid gloves. Apparently, law enforcement, on american soil, sans war and genocide....leveraged against civilians and not insurgents- is under no such restriction.
(I actually got fined for accidentally discharging my weapon into the air after an IED went off near me)
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