Local law enforcement may walk, talk, act (and certainly dress) like ducks…I mean combat troops, but the point is they aren’t soldiers. Nor are they designed to be. Thus, when handed excess Pentagon war stock equipment – and a disturbing military mandate – their ill-disciplined, escalatory, and disproportionate responses hardly comes as complete shock.
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