re: #14 TANSTAAFLusa

Equipment does not make law. Police have to follow the law as well. Like all organization, it’s dotted with many bad apples or for that matter incompetence and poor training. You could get rid of all the MRAP, SWAT team, M-16 or whatever but cops will still be able to surround your house locked and loaded and with sometimes a twitchy finger.

Police used to counterattack protesters on horseback with billy clubs in hand and bash peoples head in. In fact this was a very common practice for a very long time. People used to “accidentally slip and fall” and die in custody. With a simple club made of wood.

So you’re worried about MRAP? Why not worry about the private prison system? The over crowded jails, mandatory sentencing, archaic drug laws, school to jail pipeline.

All of these white people worried about big evil government while young black men grow up being harassed by your everyday cop on the beat. Instead of thinking about all those things it’s always the hair on fire mentality of an impending genocide carried out by DHS or in this case, ICE.