re: #151 Dark_Falcon

The rifle seen slung on the cop on the left in the second photo is an M4 carbine type AR-15. And its that plus the uniforms they are wearing that should really bring the realities of what’s been going on in Ferguson home.

No officer in that place should be carrying anything other than a sidearm and a riot baton - and even then they need MAJOR retraining on how to properly employ the riot baton. Second day, I think, I commented that if I had, as a trained National Guard NCO, carried a baton the way the St. Louis Cty PD did when deployed for riot control, I’d have gotten an Article 15.

For the non-military that’s a non-judicial form of punishment that can take one months pay AND reduce you by one rank.

An M4? That should be in the squad car’s trunk under lock and seal unless otherwise ordered by, at minimum, the state governor.