Someone recently noted the peculiarity that in whatever city – no matter small or large – Black Lives Matters protests broke out, with no lag the police showed up in full military gear, ready to do battle with civilians.
https://www.kalb.com/2020/06/23/geared-up-questions-about-police-militarization-arise-again/
That’s due to a militarization that has taken place over the past few decades where local police forces have been encouraged by the federal government – and often even given grants to use – to purchase military equipment.
The argument for this post 9/11 policy was that police needed to be ready for terrorists. However, when you think about the infinitesimally small chance that terrorists would choose … say Kenosha Wisconsin … as their target, and also consider that the 9/11 terrorists were armed with nothing more than box cutters, in hindsight it seems almost certain the police were arming not to battle terrorists, but instead to battle the very civilians they were supposed to protect.
What would give US policy-makers such a fear that there would be civil unrest so widespread and so heavily attended that police would need full military gear to combat it?
Read this:
https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/
The Class War has already started, and nobody told us.