Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Why Do the Police Have Tanks? The Strange and Dangerous Militarization of the US Police Force | | AlterNet

Why Do the Police Have Tanks? The Strange and Dangerous Militarization of the US Police Force | | AlterNet

Just after midnight on May 16, 2010, a SWAT team threw a flash-bang grenade through the window of a 25-year-old man while his 7-year-old daughter slept on the couch as her grandmother watched television. The grenade landed so close to the child that it burned her blanket. The SWAT team leader then burst into the house and fired a single shot which struck the child in the throat, killing her. The police were there to apprehend a man suspected of murdering a teenage boy days earlier. The man they were after lived in the unit above the girl's family.


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