PIGS Gas News Crew !!!

[ELVIS]

Boing Boing



A news crew, clearly no threat or impediment to the cops, films from a verge in Ferguson, Missouri. A pop and a cloud of white smoke marks the arrival of a tear gas canister at their feet, and the newscrew is forced to flee. Moments later, police pull up in an armored van and hurriedly try to break down the film equipment--until they notice that another crew is still filming them from across the street.

[ELVIS]

[Seshmeister]

Could you not find a proper news source covering this story?

[ELVIS]

What's a "proper news source" ??

The lying BBC ??

[ELVIS]

How 'bout USA Today...

Pentagon weaponry in St. Louis County

UPDATE: St. Louis County law enforcement agencies received twelve 5.56 millimeter rifles and six .45 caliber pistols from the Department of Defense between Aug. 2, 2010, and Feb. 13, 2013, a Missouri public safety official confirmed Thursday. Ferguson, Mo., is within St. Louis County. The Pentagon allows information on "tactical" equipment to be released only at a county level, so which police department(s) in the county received the weaponry is not available.



Pentagon fueled Ferguson Confrontation

The Pentagon might not have boots on the ground in Ferguson, Mo., where 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot by police on Saturday, but it does have wheels on the street.

Michelle McCaskill, media relations chief at the Defense Logistics Agency, confirms that the Ferguson Police Department is part of a federal program called 1033 that distributes hundreds of millions of dollars of surplus military equipment to civilian police forces across the United States. The materials range from small items, such as pistols and automatic rifles, to heavy armored vehicles such as the MRAPs used in Afghanistan and Iraq.

"In 2013 alone, $449,309,003.71 worth of property was transferred to law enforcement," the agency's website states.

According to McCaskill, the most recent transfer of military equipment from the Department of Defense to small Ferguson was in November and included two vehicles as well as a trailer and a generator. Details on the vehicles and their intended uses have not been released by the Pentagon. Information on any prior transfers is also unavailable.

A state public safety official told USA TODAY that the Pentagon does not allow detailed information on "tactical" equipment to be released at a police force level, only at a county level. According to a document provided by the official, police forces in the same county as Ferguson received advanced rifle sights and night vision equipment between 2012 and 2014.

There is no evidence that any such equipment has yet been used in the Brown case and its aftermath. But such "police militarization" is just one element of an often toxic relationship between minority communities and local police.

Since the creation of the 1033 program by Congress in the early 1990s, the program has distributed $4.3 billion of excess equipment, ranging from innocuous office supplies to bomb-disposing robots and other advanced technology. The flood of military supplies — along with the continuing drug war and grant programs from other federal agencies that provide military-style equipment — has pushed the culture of police forces far from its law-enforcement roots.

Indeed, the motto of the 1033 program is "From Warfighter to Crimefighter."

So it is not a surprise that police officers often seem prepared for war. In Ferguson, that change is most dramatically revealed in the images of camouflage-wearing police officers with assault rifles, body armor and multiple extra magazines facing unarmed protesters with their hands preemptively raised in the air.

The disturbing trend of police militarization permits law enforcement agencies to view people in their communities as threats, rather than as citizens with rights, reports TheWashington Post's Radley Balko, who has covered the militarization of the police extensively.

Elsewhere in Missouri, agencies participating in the 1033 program have acquired "aircraft (both fixed wing and rotary) and four-wheel drive vehicles (such as pickup trucks, blazers, ambulances and armored personnel carriers)," according to the state's Department of Public Safety.

If there's one thing a community in turmoil does not need is for anyone to turn up the heat as protesters and police face off and tempers simmer. But before a local police officer fired his first shot at the unarmed teen, the U.S. military helped make sure there was plenty of fuel to bring things to a boil.

[Nitro Express]

A lot of it is surplus equipment from the middle east. A friend of mine works for a police department that just bought an armored troop mover for $5,000 from the US Government. The price was so low they couldn't resist. I got to check it out. It has a armored V underside to protect the crew inside from bombs and mines in the road. These cops are like kids with new toys. I doubt they needed it. It's like people who go to Wallmart and buy junk they don't need just because of the Rollback price.

These vehicles probably will remain mostly unused sitting in the police vehicle yard. If you know anything about equipment if it sits unused it goes to pot. In ten to 20 years this junk will be auctioned off or sold for scrap.

[DONNIEP]

If I could buy an armored vehicle for 5 grand I would be on that so fast you wouldn't believe it. Paint it up like the General Lee and drive that sucker to church and the Walmart. On the same day!

[ELVIS]

These vehicles probably will remain mostly unused sitting in the police vehicle yard.

I doubt that...

[Nitro Express]

Here's my take on police officers. I have known a few over the years and have some in my own family. Show the badge a little respect. It's a hard job where they deal with assholes all day long and it's dangerous. More dangerous today than a few decades ago. Treat them with some respect and don't be a problem and usually you get the same back. If I get pulled over I aways keep both hands up on the steering wheel where the officer can see them. Traffic stops are scary and if they can see your hands then they are less tense.

You elect your county sheriff. The chief of police works for your elected mayor. The police work for the citizens and if there is problems with the police well then at the end of the day it's up to the citizens to fix it. It's your city and country and never forget that!

[ELVIS]

The police work for the citizens...

Keep thinking that...

[Nitro Express]

Keep thinking that...

Here they do. I never have a problem with the police around here. Dude. Alex Jones is a fear pornographer. He has to have several hours of material to make a show out of. He's a blowhard that looks for trouble. He comes into other people's peaceful protests and tries to take them over and he acts like an asshole around anyone who works for the government. The last thing Jones wants is functioning government. How would he make his money? The day Jesus comes and fixes things is going to be the day Alex Jones cries tears. Everything will be perfect and he won't have any reason to exist.

[Nitro Express]

If I could buy an armored vehicle for 5 grand I would be on that so fast you wouldn't believe it. Paint it up like the General Lee and drive that sucker to church and the Walmart. On the same day!

I actually asked the police officers why they bought the thing. It's just a police department in some small Idaho potato town. They said the price was so cheap they couldn't resist. One laughed and said they were tempted to buy two of them. LOL! Ok so if the migrant Mexican farm workers start burying IUD's in the country roads the police are safe.

Of course if Alex Jones showed up there would be a big story on Infowhores that the New World Order was militarizing small potato towns and possibly Obama was training the Mexican workers there to be his domestic police force. Ruthless Mexican cartel gangs would rape and pillage the countryside.

What would really happen is the local farmers and ranchers would put a 50 caliber round into the hubs of the wheels, bust the bearings up, stop the armored vehicle and pour gasoline all into it and turn it into a big oven. You don't fuck with ranchers. I saw them take care of Hell Angels in the 70's. I wouldn't want to mess with them.

[ELVIS]

[FORD]

Fuck this city.... run by pigs........

[DONNIEP]

Ah, this whole situation is a catch 22 - we all want the police to protect life and property but we don't want them telling us what to do. It's too bad the store owners weren't in their stores, armed to the motherfucking teeth so they could repel the invaders. White, black, Mexicans, Canadians, I don't care who the looters were. Wait, Canadians don't loot, they're too laid back. Anyway, you cap a few coming through the busted out window of your store and the rest will think twice before stealing your beer and cigarettes.