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Michael Brown shooting: Police, protesters clas

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Michael Brown shooting: Police, protesters clash in 4th night of unrest


Law & Order | 206885 hits | Aug 14 7:37 am | Posted by: DrCaleb
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Police used tear gas and smoke bombs to repel crowds throwing Molotov cocktails during another violent night on the streets of a St. Louis suburb in the wake of the shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown.

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  1. by avatar DrCaleb
    Thu Aug 14, 2014 3:12 pm
    Another good article on how the militarization of Police may be contributing to the protests:

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/michael-br ... -1.2735588

  2. by avatar 2Cdo
    Thu Aug 14, 2014 3:15 pm
    "DrCaleb" said
    Another good article on how the militarization of Police may be contributing to the protests:

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/michael-br ... -1.2735588


    This is part of the problem, the blurring of lines between policing and soldiering. Police do not need camouflage uniforms, automatic weapons and armoured vehicles in order to do their job.

  3. by avatar uwish
    Thu Aug 14, 2014 3:18 pm
    I agree, and it's up to us, Joe public, to put a stop to it.

  4. by avatar Public_Domain
    Thu Aug 14, 2014 3:24 pm
    :|

  5. by avatar andyt
    Thu Aug 14, 2014 3:25 pm
    In fact, it's the U.S. war on drugs (the phrase itself evokes the battlefield) that led local police forces down the militarized path.

    The federal government has not only doled out free or cheap surplus military gear so state and local forces can fight drug crimes, it has also handed out grants to help them buy heavy weaponry.

    "It was just part of the escalation of the drug war and trying to beef up forces there," said Lynch. "We saw it even before 9/11, and then 9/11 and the wars exacerbated the trend."

    Fears of terrorism fuelled even more interest in bulking up local police officers, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan provided surplus machinery and equipment that the federal government was keen to sell or clear out of their warehouses.

    Some local police chiefs have argued that the heavy equipment was necessary as they faced criminals with increasingly advanced weaponry.

    But community members and police forces themselves have both suffered fallout from the militarization of police.

    Kraska counted more than 275 botched SWAT raids on private homes., while Radley Balko, author of Rise of the Warrior Cop, said he found more than 50 cases of innocent people who died. ACLU says minorities get disproportionately targeted.

    Those mishaps not only fray relations with a community, but can prove costly for small police forces as they face lawsuits or are forced to disband their SWAT teams after coming under increased scrutiny.

    As one small example, in early August, the Albuquerque Police Department decided to get rid of its 20,000-kilogram Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle � the bomb-resistant mode of transport used in Iraq and Afghanistan against insurgents.

  6. by avatar andyt
    Thu Aug 14, 2014 3:27 pm
    "Public_Domain" said
    I agree, and it's up to us, Joe public, to put a stop to it.

    Uh, how? Voting? :lol:

    Yes, not buying into the paranoia and racial hatred we see displayed on CKA every day. "Gotta have armored vehicles so the cops can protect us from them." When them are your fellow citizens, you may want to look at why them are pissed off in the first place.

  7. by avatar Public_Domain
    Thu Aug 14, 2014 3:36 pm
    :|

  8. by avatar andyt
    Thu Aug 14, 2014 3:38 pm
    "Public_Domain" said
    If voting is the solution, we're screwed. If voting is all we have, a hundred years from now we'll just have a "reformed" version of this same BS.


    What else you got?

  9. by avatar Public_Domain
    Thu Aug 14, 2014 3:43 pm
    :|

  10. by avatar andyt
    Thu Aug 14, 2014 3:54 pm
    No, we have voting. The reason things are the way they are, just take a look at CKA. If our collective vote determined how things were run, do you think you would be happy with them? So unless you can figure out how to install the dictator of your choice, you have to live with this messy system. And dictators of our choice don't often stay that way.

    Oh, and we have protests. A way for a minority to show that things need to change. Can in fact influence voting.

  11. by avatar PublicAnimalNo9
    Thu Aug 14, 2014 3:56 pm
    "DrCaleb" said
    Another good article on how the militarization of Police may be contributing to the protests:

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/michael-br ... -1.2735588

    Considering St.Louis ranks at #40 of the world's 50 most dangerous cities to live in, the militarization of the police in that city shouldn't come as a surprise.
    I mean c'mon man, the city has a murder rate that's higher than San Salvador ffs and an overall crime rate to match.

  12. by avatar Public_Domain
    Thu Aug 14, 2014 4:01 pm
    :|

  13. by avatar andyt
    Thu Aug 14, 2014 4:10 pm
    "PublicAnimalNo9" said
    Another good article on how the militarization of Police may be contributing to the protests:

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/michael-br ... -1.2735588

    Considering St.Louis ranks at #40 of the world's 50 most dangerous cities to live in, the militarization of the police in that city shouldn't come as a surprise.
    I mean c'mon man, the city has a murder rate that's higher than San Salvador ffs and an overall crime rate to match.

    How are you going to prevent or solve murders or overall crime with armored vehicles and automatic weapons exactly? It's your type of thinking that leads to this mess. I guess the cops should lock down St. Louis the way our troops might do in a village in Astan. That'll fix it. Jeezus Christ.

  14. by avatar PublicAnimalNo9
    Thu Aug 14, 2014 4:18 pm
    "andyt" said
    Another good article on how the militarization of Police may be contributing to the protests:

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/michael-br ... -1.2735588

    Considering St.Louis ranks at #40 of the world's 50 most dangerous cities to live in, the militarization of the police in that city shouldn't come as a surprise.
    I mean c'mon man, the city has a murder rate that's higher than San Salvador ffs and an overall crime rate to match.

    How are you going to prevent or solve murders with armored vehicles and automatic weapons exactly? It's your type of thinking that leads to this mess. I guess the cops should lock down St. Louis the way our troops might do in a village in Astan. That'll fix it.
    It's my type of thinking that leads to this mess? Uh sorry sport, I just merely pointed out the connection, didn't say I agreed with it.
    But yeah, it's all the cops' fault that part of St.Louis is essentially a third world hell hole and has been for years.



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