Yes. These are the trappings of the cheap tyrants, the tinpot dictators.
Our ancestors didn't fight the Revolution to end up being submissives in some sick dominance game that a bunch of boys with too much TV time want to engage in.
And that takes us to the other point. In the United States, the People are Sovereign. It's the central point of the legal system. Not a King, or his Aristocracy, supported by their enforcers.
We don't have to live with this. We can and should vote it out of existence.
If things get so bad that a military force is needed, then there are State militias which are authorized or use of the National Guard. If things are that bad now that the police departments claim they need to do this, then it's already past the point where they should be involved - it should be handed off to the military.
Personally I think that's true on the border. But not in the interior. Yet.
Obama is always a lying weasel. He does things that appear to be in country’s interest because he is drawing heat for it. Then turns around by stealth and finds another crooked way to accomplish the same.
This is the old pea under the shells game. Surely, most people see it by now. Oh, I forgot the compliant MSM Press keeps telling the Big Lie and public schools filter all of this out of the class work.