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In reply to the discussion: When the National Guard and/or federal assistance is sent in when a cop kills a black man [View all]calimary
(81,845 posts)Shit - I keep thinking back to that one woman in Ferguson. I'm sorry - I don't remember her name at the moment but I believe she was either a City Council member from a neighboring city or a State legislator, or a prominent blogger (she had some stature and appeared subsequently as a talking head on some MSNBC shows), and she was talking about the damn militarization of the police. Municipal police - all decked out as though they were on patrol in the freakin' GREEN ZONE. Like this was downtown Baghdad or something, with armored troop carriers and army equipment and firepower and all kinds of ridiculous overkill that local/municipal law enforcement IN A CIVILIAN ARENA really has NO business having. And she kept saying "Take their TOYS Away!!! Take their WAR TOYS AWAY!!!!" I swear it made me jump up out of my chair and cheer. All it was doing was aggravating the situation. Turning the heat higher up on an already overheated and growing crisis. If something's already on fire, WHY on earth would you want to throw gasoline on it?
YES, DAMMIT! Take their damn frickin' toys away! CLEARLY they don't know how to play safely with them! Their behavior needed some VERY serious checking, and disciplining - as though they were disobedient, spoiled, and out-of-control children.