Trump now wants to militarize the police, at exactly the wrong moment
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/08/28/trump-now-wants-to-militarize-the-police-at-exactly-the-wrong-moment/
Today Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump administration has reversed an Obama-era policy that banned the sale of certain types of surplus military equipment from the federal government to local police departments. By reversing the Obama administration policy, President Trump is allowing local law enforcement agencies to acquire, from the U.S. government, items such as tanks, weaponized vehicles, high-caliber firearms and ammunition, grenade launchers, bayonets and camouflage uniforms.
The president of the United States wants to arm the police like they’re fighting a war, not like they are protecting communities. That would be worrisome enough on any given day, but Trump’s timing reveals his broader vision of “law and order” to be even more brutal and brazen in its intentions...
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