It will last fifteen minutes on Telegraph Avenue.
Posted on 06/29/2012 3:14:08 PM PDT by oliverdarcy
The University of California - Berkeley Police Department (UCPD) has acquired a $200,000 grant from the Department of Homeland Security to purchase an "Armored Response Counter Attack Truck," a police department spokesman told Campus Reform on Friday.
The eight-ton vehicle, commonly referred to as a "Bearcat," is used by U.S. troops on the battlefield and is often equipped with a rotating roof hatch, powered turrets, gun ports, a battering ram, and a weapon system used to remotely engage a target with lethal force.
Lt. Eric Tejada, a spokesman for UCPD, said the university plans to use the vehicle along with neighboring counties in dangerous situations that could involved heavy weapons.
Tejada said that although he does know of any incident in the university's 144-year history in which such a vehicle would have saved a life, the police department would have have liked to deploy it in an incident last year when they mistakenly believed a man had an AK-47 assault rifle.
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So they are not afraid of the loan gunman but of the lefty anarchist atmosphere created by students at school sponsored events. I seriously think it is time for Berkley to just close their doors. The students there are apparently not fit to learn.
Whatever happened to just suspending the little twits for bad behavior? Keep the tuition check and send the troublemakers home.
How else will they learn to be Community Activists without that Political Science degree from UC Berkley?
It is okay to use it to roll over Amerivcan citizens but they are not allowed to use it against illegal aliens.
This is insanity. I’m sorry, but this country is forever lost.
Use it next door, huh? Well you know what happened THERE? A newspaper reporter criticized the chief in a newspaper —pretty normal, right?
The chief sent cops to the reporter’s doorstep to “talk” —at TWO AM with no prior call..!
We want THESE people to have tanks? Sorry that’s plain nuts.
It will last fifteen minutes on Telegraph Avenue.
You - have - got - to - be - kidding! Is it any wonder CA is bankrupt.
Is the "loan" gunman the guy the bank sends to break your knees when the mortgage payment is late? (Just busting... grammar police..)
Berkeley needs something to fight the Marine recruiters.
But this isn't being paid for with California money; since it's being paid for with a federal grant, the money is free. </sarcasm>
Sorry I meant lone.
I was just taking the opportunity to be a wise guy.
Knowing the Bezerkley morons quite well, they’ll expect rockets to shoot out the ass-end when they shift into “R.”
what comes in those turrets? 50 cal?
Unreal...
This should not happen.
Why would they want to fight them now that they can lead the fag pride parades with smart military precision?
Non only 'not fit to learn' but 'can't do math' either... one homicide every 480 years...
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