There’s a rather large difference between joint training exercises and having the military enforce street-level laws. Believe me, I’ll be the first to speak out against the latter.
18th ABN Corp(’corpse’) has been doing this at Bragg and Campbell since back in the 1980s.
Usually cops would close down roads with the MPs.
I doubt SF is teaching the sherrif HALO jumps or 9 line medevac radio procedures.
And that’s exactly how we got where we are now, by people trying to minimize, ignore and explain away the abuses.
By the time you are outraged enough to complain, it may already be too late.
“There’s a rather large difference between joint training exercises and having the military enforce street-level laws. Believe me, I’ll be the first to speak out against the latter.”
Why? Because changing the name from soldier to police makes it ‘nicer’? If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and carries an M4 and moves like a soldier...then it is a soldier. Slapping ‘deputy’ on their shoulder doesn’t change that.
Police need training in how to act within a civilian environment, not how to act within Iraq. No wonder the cops in the Dorner hunt opened fire on innocent people, if this is the training they get.