Police everywhere are fully militarized. Nonviolent demonstration has never deterred state violence, why would it now?
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Police drive around in MRAPs. The MRAP was designed to survive IED explosions. Why do they need them at peaceful demonstrations?
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The police own and deploy vehicles designed to occupy Iraq and squash insurgencies. That's all you need to know about their intentions here.
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Except cops have a tiny fraction of the counter insurgency training that our troops do. And don't have any deconfliction skills.
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I am also afraid that all of us who are not old, white, rich, and male are DOOMED.
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This is all Obama.. he gets all the credit..
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