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War Gear Flows to Police Departments
The New York Times ^ | June 8, 2014 | MATT APUZZO

Posted on 06/09/2014 10:53:58 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

Inside the municipal garage of this small lakefront city, parked next to the hefty orange snowplow, sits an even larger truck, this one painted in desert khaki. Weighing 30 tons and built to withstand land mines, the armored combat vehicle is one of hundreds showing up across the country, in police departments big and small.

The 9-foot-tall armored truck was intended for an overseas battlefield. But as President Obama ushers in the end of what he called America’s “long season of war,” the former tools of combat — M-16 rifles, grenade launchers, silencers and more — are ending up in local police departments, often with little public notice.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: bang; banglist; cops; donutwatch; jbt; leos; militarization; militarized
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To: Timber Rattler
Some freepers have no problem with it.

They're just murdering, beating, robbing, and enslaving pot heads! Pot heads don't deserve constitutional rights.

Wait till they call you a pot head!

3 words and all your rights dissappear!

I smell merryjewanna! You are now a slave of the state!~

61 posted on 06/14/2014 11:42:55 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: Timber Rattler

Yes, after all, the local criminals always mine the roads. /sarc


62 posted on 06/14/2014 7:34:27 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Of COURSE bacon is good for you!!!)
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To: bamahead

Thanks for the ping.


63 posted on 06/16/2014 9:17:22 AM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: redgolum

Conversely, posting that could save the life of an innocent Freeoer and his family.


64 posted on 06/16/2014 9:23:39 AM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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