re: St Louis: Unarmed teen shot and killed by police, riot in progress.

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These cities and States are buying everything the government is selling that came back from Iraq.

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Oh I know. We have a population of 15k ( that includes 5500 state prisoners) and we have a MRAP. Damn thing is too big to go down 97% of our roads

Eta: I look at it as one of those "better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it" type of things. But yea, it gets a bad image when police officers want to play SWAT Team for a bag of dirt weed.

I blame Homeland Security and the patriot act for it more than anything.

I mean, if I had the ability and the funding to get a brand new toy on the cheap, you better believe I'd do it.


And what fun is a toy if you don't get to use it.

I understand the thinking.

If you ain't got no tear gas you gotta coal roll 'em

Yeah, the train full of tanks, armored vehicles went on for miles it seemed.

All Armed forces markings gone.

So the kid wasn't stealing after all?

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Scruffy would be wrong. It cost is 15k to outfit it and its been sitting of flat tires since the day it arrived.

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That is equally as retarded.

It shouldn't have been purchased in the first place.

You misspelled Jordan.



And no one knows.

But these pieces of human excrement with hair have taken a terrible thing and turned it into a sickening view of a certain segment of America.

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So the kid wasn't stealing after all?

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Who knows.

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just now"A large group of individuals are moving toward the QT armed with guns"

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I bet they don't get the rubber bullet treatment if they shoot.