There are several links if you google the topic, but here is one: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-military-gear-local-police-forces/606065001/
There were very few things that 0bama did that I approved of, but this was one of them. The police do NOT need this type of equipment. The claim, or rather ruse, is that it's needed to combat the riots and protests like Charlottesville, but anyone who is remotely awake knows damned well that this is an excuse and a lie. This is nothing but the "government" agents of force upping the arms race to maintain superiority over an increasingly restless population. Couple this with the increase in "civil" forfeiture, crack down on "drugs" and this "law and order" president and his lapdog Sessions are causing me to question their true motives.
There is a reason that you don't mix the military and the police because when you do, it's the People who quickly become the enemy.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration Monday lifted a controversial ban on the transfer of some surplus military equipment to police departments whose battlefield-style response to rioting in a St. Louis suburb three years ago prompted a halt to the program.
The new plan takes effect immediately and fully rolls back an Obama administration executive order that blocked armored vehicles, large-caliber weapons, ammunition and other heavy equipment from being re-purposed from foreign battlefields to America's streets.
There were very few things that 0bama did that I approved of, but this was one of them. The police do NOT need this type of equipment. The claim, or rather ruse, is that it's needed to combat the riots and protests like Charlottesville, but anyone who is remotely awake knows damned well that this is an excuse and a lie. This is nothing but the "government" agents of force upping the arms race to maintain superiority over an increasingly restless population. Couple this with the increase in "civil" forfeiture, crack down on "drugs" and this "law and order" president and his lapdog Sessions are causing me to question their true motives.
There is a reason that you don't mix the military and the police because when you do, it's the People who quickly become the enemy.