Urban Shield: Emergency preparedness training or police ‘militarization’?
http://twitter.com/#!/mrdaveyd/status/393805624045088768 Protests against Urban Shield, a convention and series of training exercises for thousands of first responders, began yesterday in Oakland, Calif., with critics citing the program for contributing to the “militarization” of police and fire departments and encouraging police brutality. The training exercises, which attract first responders from as far away as South Korea,…
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