Even More Military Equipment Being Sent To Local Police Forces
Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicle Despite crime being on a steady decline for the past decade and the threat of international terrorism being wildly overstated, local police departments...
View ArticleFerguson Police Turn Town Into War Zone
Snipers, automatic weapons, armored vehicles, and sonic weapons were just some of the military equipment aimed at the people of Ferguson, Missouri by police for protesting the shooting death of...
View ArticleAfter Ferguson Congressman Hank Johnson Proposes Bill To Stop Militarizing...
For many Americans it may not have been until the crackdown on those protesting the killing of Micheal Brown by the Ferguson, Missouri, police department that they learned how militarized local police...
View ArticleFerguson Protests Reignite With Police Threats To Journalists, Autopsy...
Ferguson, Missouri is still in chaos as protests ran through a Sunday night curfew. Police officers were recorded threatening to mace one reporter and shoot another. Tear gas was fired on...
View ArticleFerguson Crackdown Loses US Credibility On Human Rights Around The World
47 people were arrested in #Ferguson last night as a quiet protest turns violent: http://t.co/vVDmvDSVK1 pic.twitter.com/Pg3r28414K — The Root (@TheRoot) August 20, 2014 The police riots in Ferguson,...
View ArticleIn Wake Of Ferguson Protests White House Will Review Militarization Of Police...
We got the stories behind the best pictures from Ferguson from Getty photographer Scott Olson: http://t.co/50W0X0S2Dm pic.twitter.com/t7rKM4sDar — New York Magazine (@NYMag) August 20, 2014 For many...
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