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Chilling new face of police in Britain: New counter terrorism 'robocops'
Daily Mail ^ | 11/17/15 | Chris Greenwood

Posted on 11/17/2015 7:33:10 PM PST by Enlightened1

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To: spokeshave

It’s easier to get in and out of vehicles and to move quickly with them not at the waist. Quicker and easier access. If you do get hit in a mag it will slow or deflect the bullet and if it does cook a cartridge off it will be minor, low grade explosion.


21 posted on 11/17/2015 9:09:03 PM PST by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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When you can’t tell the police apart from soldiers.... that’s called.....


22 posted on 11/17/2015 9:09:38 PM PST by GeronL
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This is why Obama wants to bring more Islamic terrorism to America. The government will get bigger and more powerful.


23 posted on 11/17/2015 9:11:50 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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MTA COPS in Penn Station at the LIRR have been outfitted this way for some time. NYPD Hercules teams could be on a Spec Op in The Stan based on their equipage. UK is just catching up.


24 posted on 11/17/2015 9:19:01 PM PST by xkaydet65
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To: spokeshave

Not very likely.


25 posted on 11/17/2015 9:56:41 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Enlightened1

The cartoon minions look less menacing than the actual police.


26 posted on 11/18/2015 2:13:10 AM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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