US censures local police, yet gives lethal weapons
I've been deceived again!
"Windows smashed, arrests made in Ferguson protest" Associated Press September 25, 2014
FERGUSON, Mo. — Five people were arrested and two law enforcement officers were hurt in Ferguson after protests over the death of Michael Brown again intensified, authorities said Wednesday.
Missouri Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson said it was not clear whether a fire at a makeshift memorial for Brown led to the unrest Tuesday night in the St. Louis suburb. Reports of smashed windows and possible arson came hours after the memorial of teddy bears and signs burned.
Looks like agent provocateurs to me.
Ferguson was the site of sometimes violent protests and looting in the days after 18-year-old Brown, who was black, was shot by white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9.
About 150 protesters gathered late Tuesday night. Johnson, in charge of security in Ferguson, said one person was arrested for inciting a riot and four others for failure to disperse.
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Related:
"How the fire happened was not immediately clear, but it stoked fresh resentment."
Who would want to do that?
Analysis: Americans increasingly doubt the notion of colorblind justice
Police: Officers fatally shoot man near St. Louis
Someone is trying to get things started again.
"School police rethink stocking US military surplus equipment" by Tami Abdollah | Associated Press September 18, 2014
LOS ANGELES — School police departments across the country have taken advantage of free military surplus gear, stocking up on mine resistant armored vehicles, grenade launchers, and scores of M16 rifles.
Might as well condition the kids for the future.
At least 26 school districts have participated in the Pentagon’s surplus program, which is not new but has come under scrutiny after police responded to protesters in Ferguson, Mo., last month with tear gas, armored military trucks, and riot gear.
Now, amid that increased criticism, several school districts say they will return some of the equipment. Nearly two dozen education and civil liberties groups sent a letter this week to the Pentagon and the Justice and Education departments urging a stop to transfers of military arms to school police.
The Los Angeles Unified School District — the nation’s second-largest school district covering 710 square miles and with more than 900,000 students — said it would it would remove three grenade launchers it had acquired under the program in 2001 because they ‘‘are not essential life-saving items within the scope, duties and mission’’ of the district’s police force.
What does a school need with a grenade launcher?
It's just GET AS MUCH MONEY INTO THAT WAR MACHINE as PO$$IBLE! Give the stuff away so it can be replaced!
But the district plans to keep the 60 M16s and a military vehicle — known as an MRAP — used in Iraq and Afghanistan that was built to withstand mine blasts.
Teenagers setting roadside bombs are they?
District police Chief Steve Zipperman told Associated Press that the M16s are used for training, and the MRAP, which is parked off campus in a lot, was acquired because the district could not afford to buy armored vehicles that might be used to protect officers and help students in a school shooting.
This lame-a$$ $hit excuses is for all this is stoopid!
‘‘That vehicle is used in very extraordinary circumstances involving a life-saving situation for an armed threat,’’ Zipperman said. ‘‘Quite frankly I hope we never have to deploy it.’’
Law enforcement agencies across the country equipped themselves during lean budget years by turning to the Pentagon program, which the Defense Department has viewed as a way to get rid of gear it no longer needs. Since the Columbine school shooting in 1999, school districts increasingly participated.
Related: FBI Says No One Killed at Sandy Hook
"A big 'Whoopsie' on the part of the FBI! Either the FBI is totally incompetent, or Sandy Hook was an elaborate staged hoax to support the gun-grabber agenda. And remember, the two are not mutually exclusive! :) " -- whatreallyhappened.com
Yeah, it turns out most of what you are seeing and reading in the propaganda pre$$ is exactly that: staged and scripted hoaxes.
Federal records show schools in Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Michigan, Nevada, Texas, and Utah obtained surplus military gear. In addition to the Los Angeles school district, at least five other California districts have received equipment, state records show.
In response to police tactics after a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson, the White House said it would conduct a review of the Pentagon surplus program, and Congress also plans hearings on it.
They did, and the weapons are still flowing.
US Representative Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, said that while there is a role for surplus equipment, especially defensive gear, going to local police departments, ‘‘it’s difficult to see what scenario would require a grenade launcher or a mine resistant vehicle for a school police department.’’
San Diego Unified School District is painting its MRAP white and hoping to use the Red Cross symbol on it to assuage community worries, said Ursula Kroemer, a district spokeswoman.
Oh, that will fool 'em!
The MRAP has been stripped of all weapon mounts and turrets and will be outfitted with medical supplies and teddy bears for use in emergencies to evacuate students and staff, she said. Adding: ‘‘This thing is a bulletproof safe haven on wheels.’’
They think you kids are little children! That explains the disrespect for us all coming from this goddamn government.
Jill Poe, police chief in Southern California’s Baldwin Park school district, said she will return three M16 rifles acquired under her predecessor.
‘‘Honestly, I could not tell you why we acquired those,’’ Poe said. ‘‘They have never been used in the field and they will never been used in the field. They’re locked up in our armory. . . . I was looking to ship those back.’’
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I hope it doesn't take more than 30 years for you to get justice:
"Former Ohio deputy arrested in colleague’s slaying" The Marietta Times September 18, 2014
MARIETTA, Ohio — A former sheriff’s deputy fatally shot an ex-colleague more than three decades ago because the victim had fired him for inappropriate conduct, authorities said.
Mitchell Ruble, 63, was indicted by a grand jury and arrested Tuesday in the February 1981 shotgun slaying of Deputy Lieutenant Ray ‘‘Joe’’ Clark, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said.
Clark was watching a basketball game on TV when he went into the kitchen for a snack and was shot in the head through a window.
Sheriff Larry Mincks said Clark had fired Ruble in December 1979 for inappropriate conduct while on duty.
Ruble made no comment Tuesday when asked about the charges as he was led to jail, The Marietta Times reported. Jail records did not indicate whether he had an attorney Wednesday.
Mincks said leads on the case have been followed over the last three decades, but efforts to find the killer were ramped up in January 2011 with the creation of a cold case squad in the sheriff’s office.
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Related: FBI reports a rise in mass shootings
The police do seem to be firing away these days.
Federal prison population drops for first time in 3 decades, Justice Dept. says
They let all the criminals out, huh?
I hope it doesn't take more than 30 years for you to get justice:
"Former Ohio deputy arrested in colleague’s slaying" The Marietta Times September 18, 2014
MARIETTA, Ohio — A former sheriff’s deputy fatally shot an ex-colleague more than three decades ago because the victim had fired him for inappropriate conduct, authorities said.
Mitchell Ruble, 63, was indicted by a grand jury and arrested Tuesday in the February 1981 shotgun slaying of Deputy Lieutenant Ray ‘‘Joe’’ Clark, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said.
Clark was watching a basketball game on TV when he went into the kitchen for a snack and was shot in the head through a window.
Sheriff Larry Mincks said Clark had fired Ruble in December 1979 for inappropriate conduct while on duty.
Ruble made no comment Tuesday when asked about the charges as he was led to jail, The Marietta Times reported. Jail records did not indicate whether he had an attorney Wednesday.
Mincks said leads on the case have been followed over the last three decades, but efforts to find the killer were ramped up in January 2011 with the creation of a cold case squad in the sheriff’s office.
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Related: FBI reports a rise in mass shootings
The police do seem to be firing away these days.
Federal prison population drops for first time in 3 decades, Justice Dept. says
They let all the criminals out, huh?
