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President Trump will sign an executive order to allow local police departments to receive or purchase military surplus equipment:
Police departments will now have access to military surplus equipment typically used in warfare, including grenade launchers, armored vehicles and bayonets, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Monday, describing it as "lifesaving gear."
The move rescinds limits on the Pentagon handouts that were put in place by President Barack Obama in 2015 amid a national debate over policing touched off by a spate of high-profile deaths of black men at the hands of the police, including the shooting death in 2014 of 18-year-old Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Mo., by a white officer. Some local residents viewed police use of military equipment during the ensuing protests as an unnecessary show of force and intimidation.
In a speech to the Fraternal Order of Police in Nashville, Mr. Sessions said Mr. Obama had made it harder for the police to protect themselves and their neighborhoods. "Those restrictions went too far," Mr. Sessions said. "We will not put superficial concerns above public safety."
Mr. Sessions said that President Trump would sign an executive order on Monday fully restoring the military program, called 1033, and that the president was doing "all he can to restore law and order and support our police across the country." [...] The program was started in the 1990s as a way for the military to transfer surplus equipment to federal, state and local police agencies fighting the drug war. More than $5 billion in surplus gear has been funneled to law enforcement agencies.
Organized gangs get to play soldier.
Also at The Hill and USA Today.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @09:21PM
DJT lies more in one sentence than HRC did her entire pollical career. Why aren't you beating the liar drum for him?
As apposed to the swamp of corruption that DJT jumped right into and donated large amounts of his own excrement to replace what had splashed out because of his jump? He lied when he said he was going to do something about it.
Hey, DJT is the president, not HRC or BHO. It's not their responsibility to lead from the sidelines. This shit show is all on the Orange One and his supporters who refuse to stop him or at least take him aside like a spoiled child and set him straight.
About the only thing one can agree with from that line of snail excrement. HRC and the DNC screwed Sanders, yes. *golf clap* But if we're afraid of libruls we're afraid of socialists even more aren't we?