Inside Urban Shield, the Convention for Warrior Cops

[phill4paul]

Each year, the Alameda County Sheriff's office hosts Urban Shield, a trade show and series of exercises for first responders, primarily police department SWAT teams from around the nation. (Similar events have also been held in Boston and Dallas.) The first two days are taken up by a trade show, where vendors show off gear from armored vehicles to dog-mounted cameras and anatomically correct medical dummies. Mother Jones' Shane Bauer is attending this year's event and has been tweeting some of the highlights.

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More at link with descriptions: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/urbanshield-oakland-police-militarization

Also:

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https://storify.com/smbauer1/urban-shield-swat-convention-in-oakland-2014

[Demigod]

Wannabe soldiers,if offered to test their metal in a war they shall be seeking peace very fast,but there shall be none.

[phill4paul]

Theye see themselves as magnificent warriors protecting their homeland from a foreign threat...

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In reality Theye are but automatons bent on destruction....

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[Anti Federalist]

So how would they know, unless there is a wholesale DNA database of everybody?


Shane Bauer @shane_bauer
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Homeland Security made a DNA machine to see if ppl have real US relatives when they apply for visas. 90 min results.


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[Anti Federalist]

Shane Bauer @shane_bauer
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"If I see a protester out there with an upside down flag, I'm going to punch him in the face," a SWAT cop says inside the #UrbanShield hotel

[Halo]

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Nice index discipline, pig.

[Anti Federalist]

And he's kicked out.



Shane Bauer @shane_bauer
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A cop just took our media badges for the #UrbanShield SWAT training. Says his captain called and told him to do it. Not clear why.

[Anti Federalist]

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[GunnyFreedom]

wow, that whole evolution was kinda creepy...

[Anti Federalist]

wow, that whole evolution was kinda creepy...

Yes, yes it was.

[tod evans]

Slow boil.............

[PaulConventionWV]

Terrorist organization.

Enemies foreign and domestic.

[JK/SEA]

they think they're the good guys...

..or do they?