This is horrifying.
Center for International Policy @CIPolicy
1 May 2022
Police are borrowing $1.72 billion in military gear from the Pentagon - $106M in combat gear since January 2021 stephensemler.substack.com/p… @stephensemler

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After 20+ years of voting for, volunteering for and donating to the Dems, I've left the party. They have utterly failed the American people. I'm donating 3rd party and voting 3rd party. Dems have been blocking 3rd party ballot access. That alone is telling. #DemExit
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This is technically fascism, but its ironically democratic fascism. It incentives cops the same way a tax write-off on tithing incentives religion. pulitzercenter.org/stories/n…

No Drugs, No Crime and Just Pennies for School: How Police Use Civil Asset Forfeiture

In the past two decades, the federal government took in $36.5 billion in assets police seized from people on America’s roads and in its poorer neighborhoods, many of whom never were charged with a...

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Brave New Films
 @bravenewfilms
4 Jan 2022
In 2021, the Pentagon sent police departments $94 MILLION worth in excess military equipment through the 1033 program. Watch our video to see how the 1033 program & militarized police endanger communities of color all across the country. @JoeBiden must END this program.

Eliminate The 1033 Program & End Police Militarization.

Ever wonder why police look like soldiers? With the 1033 Programs, "Protect and Serve" Became "Search and Destroy"
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Gearing up for summer riots funded by the DNC, George Soros and who else knows?!
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We have National Guard. Why do police need these weapons beyond what they already have
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Rather than throw the old combat supplies away the Pentagon likes to give it to the police to get some kind of use out of it. Problem is then the police start to believe they are in " combat " on a search and destroy mission. That's the wrong mission for our police.
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Arms manufacturers making their profits.
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This is what the right wing democrats do. They are at least as bad as the Republicans because they own their stuff! #DNCIsCorrupt #RNCIsCorrupt #FreePalestine #FreeAssangeNOW
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Horrifying, are the killings in Chicago this weekend.
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Can’t they use this money to better pay police officers, weed out bad apples, and improve training? Oh wait no, this is America.
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