1 thought on “UNCHECKED MILITARIZED POLICE BRUTALITY: “Cops or Soldiers? Pentagon, DHS Helped Arm Police in Ferguson with Equipment Used in War ” / Democracy Now!”

1. Pretty much the same tired, old story. Police Departments get lots of firepower and training on how to use this powerful weaponry but little–by comparison–training on how to correlate use of weaponry with different human and social situations. The result? Thrown into real life, thrown into the gray, urgent situations, amid the chaos of human actions, they fall back on the solution they know–weaponry.

   The black enclaves in American cities are little more than Gaza Strips, open-air prison camps. We don’t think of them this way, of course, but the reality is seen whenever there is anything approaching a problem–National Guard, Highway Patrol, SWAT teams. Isolate and contain the problem. The problem? Black people in general and poor black Americans in particular.

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