Bank robbing ≠ protesting.
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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
When I was in the military I was on an EST team. What you would call SWAT. WE were highly trained, and we were damned good. So good, in fact, that we were called on to train local civilian Law Enforcement agencies. Those that we trained went back to train their own agencies units. "Very different training"? Not so much, I think.
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I'm only speaking from secondary experience of course, but how many law enforcement officers train to use grenades in an urban environment? While I would assume there are certainly similarities between military and police training, I would imagine that the military training includes somewhat more dangerous situations than one might normally deal with in the US. I had a friend of mine serving in Iraq describe a situation he was in as "similar to that one part of Clear and Present Danger" (referring to the ambush scene where automatic weapons and missile launchers were used to attack a motorcade from surrounding buildings).
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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
Granted, your local PD doesn't have access to F-14s, minuteman missles, stealth bombers or tomahawk cruise missles...but I guaranwelldamntee you that they have access to the exact same small arms that the military carries.
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I would be very surprised if any local police ever needed anything more than a standard issue sidearm at a protest. As a protester, I know that the danger police are normally in during a protest is minimal. The most danger a police officer is likely to see is a rock or two, and even that is exceedingly rare. I can't imagine needing automatic weapons to deal with one or two people throwing rocks.