I was confused they were chasing the Boston Bomber around with these. It was clear he didn’t have one of his own, or any other heavy military equipment such as a howitzer.
I cannot imagine a single event in any city that would justify having this, other than massive uprisings.
If a massive uprising is justification for the militarization of the nations civilian police forces, then maybe what we ougth to be focusing on is the reason behind the uprising, or, better yet, figure out why Joe Q. Citizen is upset, and not inflame the situation by confronting it with militarized law enforcement in MRAP’s, automatic rifles, grenade launchers, road blocks, etc etc etc...
They certainly didn’t do very much to quell the LA riots after the verdict was announced...Huh, you think that they’d have had some sort of cooling off period before such a public announcement...The public in that city was keyed up and ready to hit the streets regardless of the verdict...And the media was right there ready to record it all for posterity...
Strange how that all worked out for the people in those industries, and the people most efffected were the normal business owners and citizens going about their business for that day...