Rachel Maddow: Militarization of police tactics

[summerintx]

Run time: 11:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7509jc6wvks   Posted on YouTube: November 22, 2011 By YouTube Member: HenryBloggit Views on YouTube: 306   Posted on DU: November 23, 2011 By DU Member: summerintx Views on DU: 1206

 
The military has a number of supposedly non-lethal crowd-control devices that increasingly have been adopted by police. Scott Olsen's skull was fractured by a projectile from a tear gas canister.

Rachel,discusses the militarization of police and the increasing use of pepper spray and other "non-lethal" weapons in ways inconsistent with the circumstances. Spraying an 84-year-old woman at one event and peaceful protesters at UC Berkeley repeatedly might not ever have happened had those "non-lethal" weapons not been available and only live ammunition or police batons. She talks with Retired Police Captain Ray Lewis about that and his experience with being arrested along with other Occupy Wall Street protesters.

[Pharaoh]

1. kickin for later

[nineteen50]

2. I think I got it. When you don't get what you want use more pain.

[limpyhobbler]

3. who are they protecting ?

That doesn't look like they are protecting and serving so much.

Police have to use their crowd control weapons to justify the budget for next year's crowd control weapons.