occupyallstreets:

Local cops use Homeland Security-funded military weapons, including armored cars w/turrets, drones, assault rifles.

North Dakota’s largest city has averaged fewer than two homicides a year since 2005, and there’s not been a single international terrorism prosecution in the last decade.

But that hasn’t stopped authorities in Fargo and its surrounding county from going on an $8 million buying spree to arm police officers with the sort of gear once reserved only for soldiers fighting foreign wars.

Every city squad car is equipped today with a military-style assault rifle, and officers can don Kevlar helmets able to withstand incoming fire from battlefield-grade ammunition. And for that epic confrontation—if it ever occurs—officers can now summon a new $256,643 armored truck, complete with a rotating turret. For now, though, the menacing truck is used mostly for training and appearances at the annual city picnic, where it’s been parked near the children’s bounce house. Read More

One of the most important - albiet possibly unintentional - effects of the OWS movement has been the reveal that our police use terrorism-grade weapons against acts of public disobedience. When the evening news starts playing footage of young college students locked in arms on the ground being doused casually with high-end pepper-spray, it becomes harder and harder for a person who doesn’t generally worry about police-brutality to ignore the fact that we have less and less tolerance for Constitutionally protected dissent.

(via anarcho-queer)

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  1. mctranscendent reblogged this from disobey
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  5. centaurismymentaur reblogged this from sociopoliticaldribble and added:
    this seems a bit excessive…
  6. lastroadtotruth reblogged this from tigertwo1515
  7. reybrutal reblogged this from myshitactuallygothacked and added:
    Wonder what they know that I don’t…
  8. kamayami reblogged this from atticuschapin and added:
    dafuq North Dakota?
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  10. the-grey-order reblogged this from disobey and added:
    …
  11. itsratherimportant reblogged this from folkforthedead and added:
    I guess they’re hoping to make people forget about being scared of terrorists by having the police be even more...
  12. ughthisisdifficult reblogged this from self-defeatingprophecy
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  14. twistarboles reblogged this from sociopoliticaldribble and added:
    fucking bullshit
  15. self-defeatingprophecy reblogged this from disobey and added:
    You give a 5th of your paycheck away every week to fund this kind of bullshit.
  16. folkforthedead reblogged this from nprcensor and added:
    I know for a fact my town has abused Homeland Security funding.
  17. nprcensor reblogged this from disobey and added:
    The word “police” on their ballistics vest is somewhat misleading.
  18. datalorez reblogged this from disobey and added:
    I have a frightening sensation that the American government and all of its many arms and legs is beefing up for...
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  28. ablativecartographer reblogged this from lvl666blastoise and added:
    Hey, when Russia invades us and paratroops in to kill civilians in the middle of nowhere for no particular reason, and...
  29. somali-queen reblogged this from snugthug65 and added:
    byebye tax dollars
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  32. lvl666blastoise reblogged this from derpghost and added:
    Shit
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