When you consider that “terrorism” is GOVERNMENT CREATED, FUNDED, and DIRECTED, readers, you realize that THESE GUNS are to be USED AGAINST YOU, American citizens!!!!
What evil (destruction of the economy, starvation) do the elite rulers have planned for you that the cops would need to be packing such weaponry?
“Police getting more firepower; 200 to be armed with assault rifles” by Donovan Slack and Maria Cramer, Globe Staff | May 29, 2009
Yeah, THEY CAN HAVE ‘EM; you can’t!
The Boston Police Department is preparing a plan to arm as many as 200 patrol officers with semiautomatic assault rifles, a significant boost in firepower that department leaders believe is necessary to counter terrorist threats, according to law enforcement officials briefed on the plan.
PATROL OFFICERS? Because of that DAMN LIE?
The initiative calls for equipping specialized units, such as the bomb squad and harbor patrol, with the high-powered long-range M16 rifles first, the officials said. The department would then distribute the weapons to patrol officers in neighborhood precincts over the next several months, according to the two law enforcement officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they did not have permission to speak publicly.
The officials did not know exactly when the department planned to start handing out the rifles but said police officials already have acquired the guns….
The M16 rifle is a standard, military-issue weapon distributed to US armed forces. It can be used in the field by soldiers with a fully automatic function, operating as a machine-gun, but the Boston proposal is to arm them the weapons for semiautomatic operation.
Which — if the gun-control propaganda is correct — can easily be made an automatic weapon.
The law enforcement officials who discussed the proposal said department leaders have described the need for more potent weaponry to confront terrorists like the ones who attacked hotels and other sites in Mumbai, India, last November, killing 166 people and wounding 234 others.
It’s time to wake up, Bahstonians!!!
But the plan has sparked a debate within the Police Department about the safety of routinely deploying military-grade weapons on Boston’s streets. Currently, the department keeps its stock of high-powered rifles locked in special gun cars that can be driven to crime scenes when they are needed by SWAT teams.
Some police union officials, who are scheduled to discuss the firepower upgrade with department management today, are concerned that the weapons are too powerful for city streets and that they could fall into the wrong hands and be used against police officers and citizens, the officials said. But other union leaders are not as concerned.
So the tyranny-supporting Globe isn’t worried about gun control here, ‘eh?
Yeah, I have had it with the Globe, I really have.
And I used to think they were one of the best newspapers around.
Detective Miller Thomas, president of the Boston Police Detectives Benevolent Society said the plan is to equip patrol officers, detectives, and supervisors with the rifles.
Why do all of them need one? Supervisors and detectives, too?
Boston would not be the first city to arm patrol officers with assault rifles. Many other large police departments – including those in Chicago, Miami, Las Vegas, Cincinnati, and Phoenix – are using such rifles already or are planning to.
The slow encroachment of tyranny, Amurka!
In Denver, patrol officers have been armed with assault rifles for at least a decade, Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson said. The rifles are widely distributed, Jackson said, but he declined to say how widely distributed, citing safety reasons. Officers keep them inside hard cases secured in the trunks of police cruisers, in accordance with department policy, which also dictates that the chamber be empty and no magazine loaded in the weapon, he said.
That’s not the same as a PATROLMAN WALKING the BEAT with ONE — or a detective called to investigate a crime!
Jackson said the department began using the rifles when Denver police officials saw that officers in other cities were being outgunned by suspects packing high-powered weapons.
“What we were seeing is that the suspects, they’re using heavy artillery, they’re using assault rifles,” Jackson said. “And the officers were only using handguns, and they were at a deficit.”
Then DECRIMINALIZE DRUGS, assholes!!!!!!!!!!!!
In Boston, the law enforcement officials said the idea of arming patrol officers with assault rifles was first floated about a year ago by Deputy Superintendent Darrin Greeley. But the plan did not gain support from his superiors until after the Mumbai attacks.
And THERE YOU GO, Bostonians!! Can it BE ANY CLEARER?!!
The department already has received 200 fully automatic rifles from the federal government and plans to modify them to perform like semiautomatic weapons, shooting only one bullet at a time instead of rapidly spraying bullets at targets, the law enforcement officials said.
Thomas said the need for such weapons is clear. He pointed to recent fatal attacks on officers, including the April 4 fatal shooting of three Pittsburgh police officers who were killed by a man lying in wait and armed with an assault rifle.
Oh, ANOTHER SUSPICIOUS SHOOTING here in AmeriKa that JUSTIFIES MORE TYRANNY!
“If you look around, policemen get pinned down by someone who is firing on them, by virtue that they are being fired at from a greater distance,” Thomas said.
Right now, he said, most Boston officers are equipped only with 40-caliber pistols that shoot targets at a maximum of 25 yards away.
“Certainly having our guys with the proper equipment on the street is a benefit to everybody,” Thomas said.
Yup, it is ALL FOR YOUR OWN GOOD!!
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They need M-16s for this, huh?
“Police were still investigating the crash yesterday afternoon and had not determined whether any of the drivers will be cited“
Yeah, the Boston cops got time to cruise the strip, bust brothels, hang out in bars, buy drugs, and worry about cellphones while ROBBERIES, RAPES, and MURDERS go UNSOLVED!!!
Related: Who Remembers Timothy Finch?
“Earlier this month, police wrapped up a 30-day sting involving plainclothes officers mimicking tourists and other pedestrians. Once they were panhandled, they essentially became victims guaranteed to show up for a trial”
And now they need bigger guns for the ‘terrorists!”
Update:
“Mayor says no to police rifle patrols; Backs M-16s only for special units Some local leaders irate over plan” by Michael Levenson and Donovan Slack, Globe Staff | May 30, 2009
Facing sharp criticism, Mayor Thomas M. Menino said yesterday that he will not approve a Boston Police Department plan to arm neighborhood officers with semiautomatic rifles, although he expressed some support for their use by specialized units.
The police have obtained 200 M-16s free of charge from the US military and made plans to train dozens of officers and arm them with the rifles…. While special units and patrol officers in other cities such as Chicago, Miami, and Denver use semiautomatic weapons, Boston’s plans ignited a backlash.
Community leaders decried the lack of public notice and questioned the reasoning behind arming district officers with M-16s when the city’s SWAT team – which responds to standoffs, hostage situations, and other major situations with the potential for violence – already has such weapons….
“It seems like people wanted to get their free toys, and now they have to make up rhyme and reason for what to do with them,” said Jorge Martinez, executive director of Project RIGHT, which runs violence prevention programs in Roxbury. “They come up with these ridiculous ideas. What’s wrong with this commissioner? This guy is supposed to be a national leader in community policing.”
Davis cited the shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999, where first-responders waited for specialized teams to arrive even as two teen shooters killed their schoolmates inside.
Yup, foist the the COLUMBINE LIE upon us, agenda-pushers!!!!!
Police administrators had been citing the terrorist attacks last year in Mumbai, India, as justification for the new guns….
Yup, IF ONE LIE doesn’t work, use another!
Department administrators told union leaders they planned to provide up to 40 hours of training to officers selected to carry the weapons, including having each fire some 2,000 practice rounds, according to the law enforcement officials quoted yesterday by the Globe. Other officers would take a less-intensive class on the weapons so they would know how to handle one in an emergency.
And HOW MUCH is that going to COST YOU, taxpayers, and HOW COME the Globe DOESN’T SEEM TO CARE?!! They CARE when it is some cop allegedly padding his pocket.
The point I’m making, people — and I know from reading the Globe — is that the Globe is SELECTIVE about where it decides to focus its lens of outrage and probity.
The plans seemed to contradict the recommendations of a police review panel, which suggested in 2005 that the department intensively train all officers who could be required to use a special weapon such as a pepper-pellet gun in an emergency.
The panel formed in 2004 after officers fatally shot Emerson College student Victoria Snelgrove and wounded two other Red Sox fans with pepper-pellet guns during a pennant celebration outside Fenway Park.
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Gee, seems like a PATTERN with the Boston cops:
And so does the pro-police state, big-city War Daily.
My dejection and sadness just grows every day regarding AmneriKa’s MSM.
And if it is doing that to me, imagine what it is doing to the parents of the fine young man! What if he were YOUR BOY?
“I miss him,” she said, clutching a wet tissue.
Cathy and Jeffrey Woodman visited the site yesterday where their son, David, was arrested and lay unconscious before his death last June.
“Police held blameless in man’s death; Student celebrating win had a heart condition” by Shelley Murphy and Stephanie Ebbert, Globe Staff | January 30, 2009
Boston police officers did not use excessive force and were not to blame for the death of David Woodman, a 22-year-old Emmanuel College student who stopped breathing after police arrested him during the Celtics championship celebration last June and died later, prosecutors said.
On the seven-month anniversary of Woodman’s death, Daniel F. Conley, the Suffolk district attorney, announced yesterday that Woodman, after being arrested for public drinking, suffered an arrhythmia as a result of a preexisting heart condition.
His parents, Jeffrey and Cathy Woodman of Southwick, reacted angrily after a meeting with Conley yesterday, saying they cannot believe that police are blameless in their son’s death. They said their son, who had heart surgery as an infant, led an active lifestyle and never suffered an arrhythmia before.
“I think it’s a little unrealistic to ask us to believe that the police did everything right,” said Cathy Woodman, a secretary, wiping away tears as she sat beside her husband during a press conference at their lawyers’ office in Boston.
She said that the family had to wait months for the results of Conley’s investigation and still does not have copies of the medical examiner’s report or other documents that support his findings.
“We just wanted information,” she said. “Now we have it, and it just sounds like a lie.”
Government investigating itself!? If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it’s a duck, isn’t it?
(Please read this post to the very end for what REALLY HAPPENED)
Conley said that after reviewing the medical examiner’s report, findings of a cardiac specialist, and interviewing police and other witnesses, he concluded that Woodman’s heart condition caused his death.
“No police officer caused Mr. Woodman’s death, and no police officer used excessive force in arresting Mr. Woodman,” Conley said during a press conference at his Boston office. He said no criminal charges were warranted against the nine officers present during Woodman’s arrest. Conley said he will immediately release the entire investigative file to the Woodmans.
It’s called a COVER-UP, Globe! And what a pot-smoking scum Conley is!!
Also see: Mass. DA’s Broke the Law
After watching the Celtics’ championship victory at a bar, Woodman, who lived in Brookline, was walking home June 18 with four friends and carrying a cup of beer when they passed the officers at Fenway and Brookline Avenue. One of Woodman’s friends, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Woodman said, “Wow, it seems like there’s a lot of crime on this corner.”
The friend said officers slammed Woodman to the ground and then ordered his friends to leave the area or face arrest. But Conley concluded that Woodman would not stop for police and resisted arrest by grabbing a wrought-iron fence, requiring several officers to bring him to the ground. He was charged with public drinking and resisting arrest.
“They used a level and type of force appropriate to the resistance they encountered, and they complied with the Boston Police Department’s rules and procedures in doing so,” Conley said.
After Woodman was handcuffed behind his back, Conley said, the officers tried to get Woodman to his feet, but he could not stand. Believing he was drunk and unaware of his medical condition, police returned him to the ground, positioning him on his side, in case he vomited, Conley said.
“Within one or two minutes, they noticed that he was not breathing and had no pulse, and they immediately took action,” Conley said. One officer began mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, another performed chest compressions, a third called for an ambulance, and three more ran for an ambulance, Conley said.
The Woodmans accused police of using excessive force and neglecting their son, pointing out that by the time he arrived at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, he had significant brain damage from a lack of oxygen. He regained consciousness, but days later, on June 29, he suffered another arrhythmia and died.
Conley said that Dr. James R. Stone, chief of cardiovascular pathology service at Massachusetts General Hospital and a consultant to the medical examiner in the case, found that both arrhythmias resulted from Woodman’s heart abnormalities and that the second arrhythmia would have killed him, even if the first had never occurred.
Commissioner Edward F. Davis, who was at Conley’s press conference, said later that he believed police acted appropriately. However, police policies might change as a result of the episode, he said.
WHY CHANGE if “police acted appropriately?” GUILTY!!!!!
For instance, he said, the nine officers who were present at Woodman’s arrest immediately went to the hospital for stress treatment, leaving a superior who did not witness the event to write the report.
Yeah, MURDERING SOMEONE will STRESS YOU OUT!!!!
Thomas Drechsler, a Boston lawyer who represents eight of the officers, said it was a very stressful situation for the officers who arrested Woodman and then tried to revive him. “They felt awful about it,” Drechsler said. “They did their best.”
That’s OFFENSIVE!!
If they felt so awful, they SHOULD NOT HAVE ROUGHED UP the KIDS!
The Woodmans’ lawyer, Howard Friedman, said the family will review the investigative file and consult an independent medical specialist before deciding whether to file a lawsuit against the Police Department. Former US Attorney Donald K. Stern, tapped by Davis to conduct an independent review, said he will focus on police practices the night of the arrest.
The FBI and US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan will review the case to determine whether a civil rights investigation by the Justice Department is warranted.
So that’s the toughest charge these murderers MAY face? CIVIL CHARGES? And they will GET OFF THOSE, too, right?
Cathy Woodman said she and her husband, an elevator mechanic, will keep fighting for their son “because it’s not right that there were nine officers and one David, and all of his friends were shooed away.”
I grieve for this family. What should have been a happy occasion for all was destroyed by tyranny that is based on lies — and the world lost a beautiful young man who could have done great things. Now we will never know.
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Why the SANITIZED REPORT, Globe?
Being a PRO-POLICE STATE, PRO-AUTHORITY, agenda-pushing piece of garbage wouldn’t have anything to do with it, right?
Let’s GO BACK IN TIME, readers, to see what REALLY HAPPENED THAT NIGHT!
I find it sad that this needs to be reported by a Globe columnist, and wasn’t ever referred to in any of the “news” reports (type David Woodman in to my blog search and scroll down).
“We watched the police unload from buses. They were in riot gear, with batons and shields. There were hundreds and hundreds of them, and I looked around and said, ‘Is this really necessary?’…. People were high-fiving each other. They weren’t fighting. It was not a hostile crowd. But the police kept pouring off the buses, and they were very aggressive and very hostile, and I was thinking, ‘Do they really need this many cops?’ And I was thinking, is this going to make things better or worse?”
It made things worse for David Woodman. He mouthed off walking past a group of cops, with a beer in his hand. Woodman said what Jim Rufo was thinking: that it seemed like there were an awful lot of cops around.… experiencing something that felt like a police state.“
Even this brave reporter is biased; yes, the INNOCENT YOUNG MAN “mouthed off.”
Did he deserve to be KILLED for that?
“Asking for trouble” by Kevin Cullen, Globe Columnist | July 21, 2008
Jim Rufo is 44 years old, grew up in Holyoke and now lives near Albany. He and his wife, Tracy, have season tickets for the Celtics and they were there all year for the great, long ride, and were there the night that KG and the boys sent Kobe and the rest of the Lakers packing.
It was a terrific night and the Rufos stepped out onto Causeway Street feeling as good as they had ever felt. Within minutes, things turned uncomfortable.
Not with the crowd. But with the police.
“It looked as though they were ready for the south LA riots after the Rodney King verdict. We watched the police unload from buses. They were in riot gear, with batons and shields,” Jim Rufo was saying the other day. “There were hundreds and hundreds of them, and I looked around and said, ‘Is this really necessary?’
“I’m not going to tell you there weren’t a thousand people who had too much to drink or were on their way to having too much to drink, but they were mostly happy. People were high-fiving each other. They weren’t fighting. It was not a hostile crowd.
“But the police kept pouring off the buses, and they were very aggressive and very hostile, and I was thinking, ‘Do they really need this many cops?’ And I was thinking, is this going to make things better or worse?”
It made things worse for David Woodman. He mouthed off walking past a group of cops, with a beer in his hand. Woodman said what Jim Rufo was thinking: that it seemed like there were an awful lot of cops around.
For this, Woodman was grabbed by some cops and put on the ground and later he was dead. Now, you can dress this up any way you want: that Woodman had a preexisting heart condition, that it was an unfortunate accident, that it was any number of things. But the bottom line is David Woodman is dead and he died as a result of being taken into custody by some cops who didn’t like some kid mouthing off to them.
You will never convince Jim Rufo that David Woodman is dead for any other reason than that the show of force put on by police the night the Celtics won their 17th championship was something of a self-fulfilling prophecy: that if you hype police officers up for battle, if you send them into a crowd of civilians with weapons, you are asking for trouble.
This is not peculiar to Boston. I’ve seen it happen in Belfast and in Brussels and in Belgrade.
If you give people with authority the green light to kick butt, some of them will overdo it.
But this has everything to do with Boston. After the Patriots won the Super Bowl in 2004, a 21-year-old named James Grabowski got killed, run over by another kid whose response to a football game was to go out and act stupid. That death, and the flaccid police preparation for and response to the riot that precipitated it, sullied the police department.
Months later, after the Red Sox vanquished the Yankees, another 21-year-old, a beautiful girl named Victoria Snelgrove, was killed, this time by police who were determined not let the anarchy that led to Grabowski’s death happen again.
And now another kid, 22-year-old David Woodman, is dead, again at the hands of police officers, who may or may not be held responsible.
How many others have to die before the Boston police figure out that maybe, just maybe, they are helping to create the very conditions they seek to control with storm trooper tactics?
“I have nothing against the police. My grandfather was a policeman,” Jim Rufo was saying. “We understand the police are in a tough position. But somebody died.
“On the way home, Tracy and I talked about walking out and feeling so good, and then experiencing something that felt like a police state. It was unnerving.
“I don’t know what the answer is. But unless you have a riot, you shouldn’t act like there’s a riot.”
Hey, this is the AmeriKan police state in action, so unless you want a club to the nose, you will shut up, Mr. Reporter!!!
Also see: What the Local Police State Looks Like
Of course, I guess Boston cops have BETTER THINGS TO DO, huh?
Turns out it is more than just Bahstahn:
“Police add assault rifles across the state; Officials point to terror concerns” by Donovan Slack, Globe Staff | June 3, 2009
The odds that a local police officer in Massachusetts has access to a military-grade assault rifle, whether in the trunk of a cruiser or at a police station, are far stronger than authorities have previously revealed.
Some 82 cities and towns across the Commonwealth have introduced a total of 1,057 such rifles to their arsenals over the last decade, state public safety officials confirmed yesterday, many of them acquired in recent years in response to the fear of terrorist attacks.
Yup, all the tyranny based on those false flag events.
State officials refused to release a list of which cities and towns have deployed what weapons, citing security concerns. The latest police force to obtain the increased firepower appears to be the MBTA, which just spent $13,000 on a set of semi-automatic assault rifles – 10 Bushmaster, long-range M4s. The T is developing plans to distribute them to transit patrol officers for use in violent emergencies such as terrorist assaults or shooting rampages by individual civilians, transit officials said….
This as the T is deep in debt and corruption. Amazing where they can find money and what they spend it on sometimes.
So now the T TRANSIT COPS are going to packing!!
Stay off the damn subway!
The T’s adoption of the guns is emblematic of a wider proliferation of the weapons in local law enforcement, both in Massachusetts and around the country. The guns are much more powerful and can fire more bullets than typical side arms carried by police officers….
All to control the mobs when the planned destruction of the U.S. economy is completed and WWIII begun.
Community leaders, surprised by the number of military weapons in use statewide, said they were upset by the lack of public discussion of what they called the apparent “militarization” of local police….
You guys are surprised the government is hiding and concealing things from you? Wake up! The government is NOT THERE for YOU, AmeriKa!
It SERVES SPECIAL INTERESTS and WE ALL KNOW WHOM THEY ARE!!!!
Most of the weapons, including Boston’s, were acquired free of charge as part of a US Military surplus program. When the military phases out certain weapons in favor of other, or newer, equipment, the leftovers are made available to local police agencies across the United States, according to the agency that oversees the program, the US Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service.
Oh, isn’t that nice? Cops getting military hand-me-downs.
Nice to know we make more weapons than we need when we outspend the REST of the WORLD when it comes to “defense.”
Meanwhile, you are getting screwed at just about every turn, America. Your taxes are going up all over the place, and you are getting nothing in return.
Arms can also be declared surplus when the overall size of military forces decreases, thereby shrinking the number of weapons needed….
Well OUR ARMED FORCES are INCREASING, so I don’t even know why that statement made the report. Just fits with all the other COULD BES, IFS, MAYBES, HOWEVERS, BUTS, STILLS, and all the other garbage qualifiers found throughout the AmeriKan MSM.
Doug Louison, lawyer for the MBTA Patrolman’s Association: “…. Issuing sophisticated weapons without concern for how they’re being utilized is frightening.”
I thought so.
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