WATCH: Sessions announces rollback of limits on military gear for police

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Associated Press, via PBS

WATCH: Sessions announces rollback of limits on military gear for police

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS August 28, 2017 at 10:24 AM EDT | Updated: Aug 28, 2017 at 11:14 AM

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will revive a program that provides local police departments with surplus military equipment such as high-caliber weapons and grenade launchers, despite past concerns that armored vehicles and other gear were inflaming confrontations with protesters.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the program to roaring applause Monday at a national convention of the Fraternal Order of Police, one of the groups that had long urged Trump to restore the military program.

The plan will “ensure that you can get the lifesaving gear that you need to do your job and send a strong message that we will not allow criminal activity, violence, and lawlessness to become a new normal,” Sessions told the cheering crowd.

Trump plans to sign an order undoing Obama-era limitations on police agencies’ access to camouflage uniforms, bullet-proof vests, riot shields, firearms, ammunition and other items. The changes are another way in which Trump and Sessions are enacting a law-and-order agenda that federal support of local police as key to driving down violent crime.

Read more: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/watch-live-sessions-speaks-fraternal-order-police/

[global1]

1. This Is Trump Getting Ready For The Coming Revolution.....nt

[asiliveandbreathe]

2. Dissenters..anyone who disagrees with this admin...so now use your inside voices..

this is disgusting and an attempt to dissuade dissent....infuriating...an affront to the American people...this is so un-American..inflaming??? - absolutely....

[Javaman]

3. our very own praetorian guard.

so much for democracy, but I guess sessions and tRump are okay with it as long as it's at the end of a tank muzzle.

banana republic.

[orangecrush]

4. Here we go again.

[heaven05]

5. of course

the slow drip, drip, drip march toward a fully fascist state, with a totally suspended Constitution and citizen rights and protections must have storm troopers with the latest gear in which to kill resisters to the fascist state now being put into place.

[The_jackalope]

6. Banana Republicans nt

[noneof_theabove]

7. Before I retired...

back in 2013/14 2 light tanks were given to every regional with the state.
Variable names council of government, region planning council/district, and other names for a group of counties/parishes/etc.

I'm in Texas, and worked in 911 arena, and we got our two.
I still state this today.....WHO IS THE ENEMY?
Not needed for..
...illegal immigrants
...drug deals and users
...gangs
...bank robbers
...mental people like the idiot-in-chief

So WHO ARE THEY ENEMY?

WE ARE ! ! !

There will be no ability to have a revolution as a "redress of the government".

Trump is in lock step with Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Putin.

Remember Khrushchev made "enemy of the state", started by Stalin, illegal.

Everything Hitler did to get into power was legal.
He, like Trump, sold hope and delivered evil.

And this weekend the Orange Fuhrer did more self gratification instead meaning full dialog about Harvey.

I was at the edge of H1 and never got that much rain, and I'm survivor in the same hometown from Celia 1970 plus several others.

ItMFN = Impeach the Mother Fucker Now !

With today's [Mon 28 Aug 2017] about Russian meeting "Get Our Boy Elected" WTF is stopping removal from office IMMEDIATELY.

To all congress-critters -- DO NOT PUT YOUR BALLS IN YOUR WIFES PURSE FOR SAFE KEEPING, when you come back, otherwise just resign and stay home we can work with majority wins until next election cycle.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. Welcome to DU, noneof_theabove. NT (no text).