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Liberty under Assault in Ferguson, Alderman Arrested, SWAT Targets Protesters AND Media

14 Thursday Aug 2014

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Peaceful Assembly Suspended on Fourth Night of Protests In Ferguson, Alderman Arrested, Two Reporters Detained as SWAT  INTENTIONALLY Targets Reporters

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As reported by KSDK, the crowd was smaller on the fourth consecutive night of protests than it had been the other three on the streets of Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri.F

Many of those still protesting are outsiders stirring up trouble.

Early Wednesday, the city of Ferguson requested that vigils and protests be held during daylight hours which Wednesday’s protesters attempted to do.

They were met with a heavily armed and more aggressive police state, (70-100 members of SWAT in riot gear) whose marching orders were to squash any protests held during the day or night.

 

RT ‘…Your right to assembly is not being denied,’ police were telling the protesters before the sudden showdown….‘This is not open for discussion….’

 

 

In other words, “Your right to assembly is not being denied” until it has been and even then, it depends on whom one asks.

As one might guess, it went downhill from there. Some protesters threw bottles, rocks and molotov cocktails. SWAT employed urban warfare tactics threw tear gas canisters, smoke grenades, shot rubber bullets and used sound cannons.

 

 

 
Post by Wes Suber.

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St. Louis Alderman, Antonio French who has been out there every night since the shooting of 18 year old Mike Brown tweeting events as they unfold was arrested last night and charged with unlawful assembly and not listening.

 

Rumor has it that French will be held for 24 hours. The detainment of the alderman served only to make a bad situation worse as news of his arrest spread across Twitter like wild fire. Protesters converged upon the police station to demand French’s release followed by an MRAP.

 

SWAT Intentionally Targeted Media:  

St. Louis police did not appreciate the media’s presence at ground zero and, therefore, intentionally targeted journalists for their own good (yeah, right). Reporters Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post Ryan Reilly from the Huffington Post were detained and then released for filming officers in McDonald’s, a staging area for journalists covering the protests. At the time of their arrests, the reporters were preparing to file their stories and charging their phones.

With the urgent need to control the message, SWAT ordered McDonalds to close immediately after the arrest of two reporters using its Wi-Fi to file their reports.

 

Al Jazeera’s media crew making a run for it:

 

After which SWAT dismantled their equipment.

Prison Planet

Infowars reporter Joe Biggs was shot in the kidneys Wednesday night by St. Louis Co. Police using flash bangs and rubber bullets during protests ….The militarized police, equipped with combat armor and Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles, unloaded on the media and demonstrators near the burnt down QuikTrip gas station on West Florissant Ave. around 9pm Central after someone threw a Motolov cocktail on top of a nearby car wash, lighting it completely on fire….

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What are the odds that last night’s assault on anything breathing by the Missouri police state will backfire, as journalists from all over the country will be tempted to converge upon Ferguson.

 

 

LINKS:
http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local/2014/08/13/ferguson-protests-fourth-night-tear-gas/14037883/
http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local/2014/08/13/ferguson-asks-protests-vigils-be-held-during-day/14000463/
http://rt.com/usa/180168-ferguson-protesters-swat-standoff/
https://twitter.com/ksdknews/status/499796257981095936
http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local/2014/08/13/2-reporters-arrested-at-ferguson-mcdonalds/14037723/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2724528/A-city-ripped-apart-Heavily-armed-SWAT-teams-fire-tear-gas-demonstrators-arrest-two-journalists-FOURTH-night-clashes-shooting-unarmed-18-year-old-Michael-Brown.html
http://www.prisonplanet.com/ferguson-riot-police-wound-reporter-in-attack-on-protestors.html
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/14/alderman-citizen-journalist-ordered-out-of-his-car-then-arrested-by-ferguson-police-because-he-didnt-listen-wife-says/

Militarized Police

09 Friday Aug 2013

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warrior cop

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…Since the 1960s, in response to a range of perceived threats, law-enforcement agencies across the U.S., at every level of government, have been blurring the line between police officer and soldier. Driven by martial rhetoric and the availability of military-style equipment—from bayonets and M-16 rifles to armored personnel carriers—American police forces have often adopted a mind-set previously reserved for the battlefield. The war on drugs and, more recently, post-9/11 antiterrorism efforts have created a new figure on the U.S. scene: the warrior cop—armed to the teeth, ready to deal harshly with targeted wrongdoers, and a growing threat to familiar American liberties….

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How insane and overpowering is it that in the past forty years, there has been a dramatic increase number of SWAT-like raids.

Along with the increase, comes bloodshed that far too often accompanies these raids not to mention the constitutionality of a militarized police state.

In 1970s, there were a few hundred SWAT-like raids a year.

During the early part of the 1980’s the number of SWAT-like raids increased to approximately 3,000 raids a year.

By the year, 2005, there were more than 50,000 raids and to make matters worse most federal agencies now have their own SWAT teams.

swat team equipment and weapons

Not to mention a police state that while strapped with all sorts of tools appears more each day to lack sensitivity and compassion.

Below is a list of government agencies followed by independent, state agencies, local and county agencies that have their own SWAT team.

Federal agencies

United States Department of Energy

  • Special Response Teams (SRT)
  • Special Response Force (SRF)

United States Department of Homeland Security

United States Department of Justice

United States Department of State

United States Department of the Treasury

National Park Service

Independent federal agencies

State agencies

Local/County Agencies

  • Alexandria Police Department – Special Operations Team (SOT)[which?]
  • Anchorage Police Department – Special Weapons and Tactics(SWAT) Team
  • Arlington County Police Department – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Unit
  • Arlington County Sheriff’s Office CERT
  • Atlanta Police Department – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Unit
  • Atlantic City Police Department Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Atlantic County, NJ, Emergency Response Team (ACERT) (Muli-Agency team)
  • Austin Police Department – Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Aurora Police Department, IL – Special Response Team (SRT)
  • Bakersfield Police Department – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Baltimore Police Department – Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT)
  • Baltimore County Police Department SWAT
  • Bay Area Rapid Transit District Police Department – SWAT Team
  • Beverly Hills Police Department – Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Broward County, Florida, Sheriff’s Office – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Buena Park Police Department – Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Central Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council (CEMLEC) – SWAT Team (Multi-jurisdiction regional team)
  • Capital Region Emergency Services Team (CREST) – (Multi-jurisdiction regional Team)
  • Cape Cod Regional Law Enforcement Council (CCRLEC) – SWAT Team (Multi-jurisdiction team)
  • Central New Hampshire Special Operations Unit (CNHSOU)(Multi-Jurisdiction team)
  • Charleston County Sheriff’s Department – Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Charleston Police Department – Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Chattanooga Police Department – Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Central Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council (CEMLEC) – Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Chesapeake Police Department – SWAT Team
  • Chicago Police Department – SWAT Team
  • Cincinnati Police Department – SWAT Team
  • Cleveland Division of Police – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Unit
  • Cobb County, Georgia, Police Department – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Cobb County, Georgia, Sheriff’s Office – Tactical Operations Unit (TOU)
  • Colorado Springs Police Department – Tactical Enforcement Unit (TEU)
  • Columbus Division of Police – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Section
  • Cook County, Illinois, Sheriff’s Police – Hostage Barricade and Terrorist (HBT)
  • Corona Police Department – SWAT Team
  • Dallas Police Department – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Denver Police Department – Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Detroit Police Department – Special Response Team (SRT)
  • DuPage County Sheriff’s Office, IL – Special Weapons And Tactics
  • Durham Police Department – Selective Enforcement Team (SET)
  • Escondido Police Department – Tactical Operations Unit (TOU)
  • Fairfax County Police Department – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office – Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team (SERT)
  • Fulton County, Georgia, Police Department – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Fulton County, Georgia, Sheriff’s Office – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Felony Investigative Assistance Team (FIAT), Dupage County IL – Special Weapons and Tactics
  • Gwinnett County, Georgia, Police Dept. – Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Gwinnett County, Georgia, Sheriff’s Office – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Hampton, Virigina, Police Department – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office – Tactical Response Team (TRT)
  • Hillsborough County Fire Rescue – Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT)
  • Houston Police Department – Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Indianapolis Police Department – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Kern County Sheriff Department – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Kane County Sheriff’s Office, IL – Special Weapsons and Tactics (SWAT)
  • Long Beach Police Department[disambiguation needed] – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Los Angeles Airport Police – Emergency Services Unit (ESU)
  • Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) – Special Enforcement Detail (SED)/Special Weapons Team
  • Los Angeles Police Department – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Los Angeles School Police Department – Special Response Team (SRT)
  • Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office – Tactical Operations Unit (TOU)
  • Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Police – Special Operations Section Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT)
  • Marietta Police Department – Special Response Team (SRT)
  • Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council (Metro-LEC) – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police Department – Special Response Team (SRT)
  • Miami-Dade Police Department – Special Response Team (SRT)
  • Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Police Department – Special Operations Response Team (SORT)
  • Montgomery Police Department – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Montgomery County Police Department (Maryland) – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Unit
  • Nashville Metro Police Department – Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Navajo Nation Tribal Police – Special Operations Unit (SOU)
  • Newark Police Department – Emergency Response Team (ERT)
  • New Orleans Police Department – Special Weapons Assault Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Newport News Police Department – Tactical Operations Unit (TOU)
  • New York City Police Department – ESU
  • North Eastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council (NEMLEC) Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT)(Multi-jurisdiction regional team)
  • North Miami Beach Police Department – Special Response Team (SRT)
  • North Texas Metro SWAT – Multi-Jurisdictional SWAT Team covering four counties near Dallas, Texas
  • Northern Illinois Police Alarm System (NIPAS) – Emergency Services Team (EST)(Multi-jurisdiction regional team)
  • North County SWAT – Regional team operating in the Northern part of Orange County, California
  • Northwest Regional SWAT Team (NWRS) – Multi-Jurisdictional SWAT Team – Northwest Indiana (Lake County, IN)
  • Orlando Police Department – Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Orange County Area Law Enforcement (OCALE) Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Team – Regional team in Orange County, Texas
  • Orange County, California, Sheriff’s Department – Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Orange County, Florida, Sheriff’s Office – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office – Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Palm Springs Police Department – Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Phoenix Police Department – Special Assignments Unit (SAU)
  • Phillidelphia Police Department Special Weapons And Tactics Team (SWAT) Unit
  • Pima Regional SWAT – (Multi-jurisdiction regional team)
  • Port of Seattle Police Department – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Portland Police Bureau Special Emergency Response Team (SERT)
  • Portsmouth, Virginia, Police Department – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team (Formerly the Tactical Respopnse Unit)
  • Portsmouth, Virginia, Sheriff’s Office – Emergency Response Team (ERT)
  • Prince George’s County Police Department – Emergency Services Team (EST)
  • Prince George’s County Sheriff’s Office – Specialized Services Team (SST)
  • Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department – Special Enforcement Detail (SED)
  • Salt Lake City Police Department – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • San Diego Police Department – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • San Diego County Sheriff’s Department – Special Enforcement Detail (SED)
  • San Francisco Police Department – Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • San Francisco County Sheriff’s Department – Special Response Team (SRT)
  • Savannah Police Department – Emergency Rescue Team (ERT)
  • Seattle Police Department – Emergency Response Team (ERT)
  • Shelby County, Tennessee, Sheriff’s Office – Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Spartanburg Police Department – Tactical Neutralization Team (TNT)
  • Spokane County Sheriff’s Department – Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Spokane Police Department – Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Suffolk, Virginia, Police Department – Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT)
  • Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) Transit Police Special Operations Response Team (SORT)
  • South Suburban Emergency Response Team (SSERT – Muli-jurisdiction team in suburban Chicago, IL)
  • Southern New Hampshire Special Operations Unit (Multi-jurisdiction team)
  • Tacoma Police Department – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Tampa Police Department – Tactical Response Team (TRT)
  • Tucson Police Department – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Tulsa Police Department – Special Operations Team (SOT)
  • Virginia Beach Police Department – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team
  • Washington County, Oregon, Sheriff’s Office – Tactical Negotiations Team (TNT)
  • Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department – Emergency Response Team (ERT)
  • Washington D.C. Metropo Transit Police Department – Special Response Team (SRT)
  • West County SWAT – regional Team operating in the Western part of Orange County, California
  • Westchester County Police – Special Operations Division
  • Western New Hampshire Special Operations Unit (Multi-jurisdiction team)
  • Wichita Police Department – Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Unit

– Special Weapons And Tactics – SWAT

Source:  Wikipedia

Oath Keepers to Rally in Tucson on Memorial Day Over Death of Young Marine VeteranOath Keepers Rally to Honor Jose Guerena and Oppose SWAT Searches

26 Thursday May 2011

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Stewart Rhodes – Oath Keepers

“Tucson, ArizonaMay 30, 2011March and rally from 9am to 3pm, followed by formal indoor meeting with speeches and additional memorial ceremonies into evening.

CALLING ALL OATH KEEPERS, ALL VETERANS, ALL PATRIOTIC POLICE OFFICERS, ALL GUN OWNERS, AND ALL LIBERTY LOVING AMERICANS.

This is an urgent call-out to all Oath Keepers, all veterans, all patriotic police officers, all Americans who cherish our liberty and our Constitution, and to all liberty leaders and patriotic organizations to join us in Tucson, Arizona this Memorial Day, May 30, 2011 to take a stand in defense of our Constitution, which our war dead fought to defend, and to take a stand against the egregious policy of using SWAT teams to serve search warrants on veterans and gun owners with no violent criminal history.

As you may know, on May 5, 2011, a young 26 year old Marine veteran who had survived two tours in Iraq, and father of two, Jose Guereña, was killed in a SWAT raid in Tucson, Arizona (see below news articles for details). At approximately 9:30 am, two hours after he hit the rack after working a twelve hour graveyard shift at an Arizona mine, his wife woke him by yelling that there were men with guns outside (she had seen a man outside the window pointing a gun at her). He told her to take their four year old son and hide in a closet, grabbed his AR-15, and stepped out into the hallway of his home just as his front door was battered in.

He died with his safety still on. He didn’t fire a shot. The Pima County, Arizona (Sheriff Dupnik’s department), SWAT Team fired 71 rounds at him, hitting him with approximately 60 rounds. He had no criminal record. The only justification given by the Sheriff’s spokesman for using SWAT to serve the warrant was that it was a search warrant in a narcotics conspiracy investigation (with three other homes searched in the same neighborhood), and that this is their policy when the home-owner may be armed.

This policy of using SWAT to serve mere search warrants on people with no violent criminal history will lead to more deaths of veterans and other trained American gun owners because a trained man will react precisely the same way this young Marine did.

We must take a stand on this use of SWAT against gun owners and veterans who have no violent crime history, and that stand needs to be a firm one.….continue”


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Sixty bullets? Jose Guerena, a true American hero did not deserve to go out like this. Moreover, that which happened to Guerena should not happen to any American. This is the fault of a government trampling upon our rights and diminishing our liberties.  The United States has been transformed into a police state. Change the policy. Support the Oath Keepers. God bless the family of Jose Guerena. Right the wrongs, America. Right the wrongs.