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orangecrush

(19,581 posts)
Mon Aug 28, 2017, 12:19 PM Aug 2017

Trump to lift military gear ban for local police

CNN) The Trump administration will unveil a new plan Monday to roll back limits on a controversial program that provides local law enforcement agencies with surplus military gear, marking the end of a policy implemented during the Obama administration.

President Barack Obama issued an executive order in 2015 prohibiting the transfer of a host of equipment, including armored vehicles, grenade launchers, high-caliber weapons and camouflage uniforms following controversy over the "militarization" of the police response to unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/08/28/politics/police-military-gear-ban-lifted/index.html


Cementing the building blocks of authoriitarian kleptocracy.

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Trump to lift military gear ban for local police (Original Post) orangecrush Aug 2017 OP
Interesting!!! atreides1 Aug 2017 #1

atreides1

(16,082 posts)
1. Interesting!!!
Mon Aug 28, 2017, 12:33 PM
Aug 2017

I see the confiscation of all guns owned by American citizen, coming to a town near you, with militarized police forces!

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