[Rockingham]

That is one fast shuffle, construing a fatal police incident with a Black teen and the ensuing protests, looting, and riots as an argument against the police being provided with military gear. Are you also arguing that if America’s cops gave up their SWAT teams, bullet proof vests, and armored vehicles, then Black teens would reduce their high rate of violent criminality? Would their role in the drug trade also fade away? And would the kids take up their education with renewed vigor?

[Noamie]

Are you also arguing that if America’s cops gave up their SWAT teams, bullet proof vests, and armored vehicles, then Black teens would reduce their high rate of violent criminality?

Do the cops have to wear multicam load-bearing molle combat vests when a Black bullet-proof vest with POLICE on the front would do? "Optics" is important for the Police to consider when interacting with their fellow citizens in a tense situation.