Is this REALLY necessary? Pictures of Anaheim police.

[R_P_A_S]

I mean.. I can't believe this shit. Look at how the police came out.. suited up as if this was Iraq 2003...




https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/550999_413771118657989_1199139952_n.jpg

[Positivist]

And this was in response to?

[R_P_A_S]

And this was in response to?

peeps protesting at the police station over the shootings of 2 un armed "gang members"

[Welshy]

Are those guns with regular bullets or rubber bullets? Also what's the source on that picture?

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

When life presents an obstacle, use poison gas canisters. Shit's ridiculous.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

It's all about intimidation.

[R_P_A_S]

Are those guns with regular bullets or rubber bullets? Also what's the source on that picture?

bean "non-lethal" bullets.. just google.. Anaheim police SWAT at protest today. you will see more pics..

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Do they actually want the situation to escalate? Confronting a bunch of pissed off folk with goons in camouflage carrying guns and (from the looks of it) wearing shades is straight out of the fucking Evil Overlord's Handbook for Crushing the Downtrodden Masses.

Expecting anything but a heavy police presence was always out of the question, but this is stupid. Sure, a protest around a cop station turning nasty looks bad (from their perspective), but this kind of hyperbolic reaction is demonstrably provocative.

Kettling is provocative, but the action of the protestors is confined by the cops who also serve to isolate them from the rest of the urban environment. The kind of macho idiocy displayed by the Anaheim police in the OP could lead to a loss of control on their part.

[o well this is ok I guess]

Of course it's not necessary. But that's hardly a question to ask when the cops are on you.

[bcbm]

The kind of macho idiocy displayed by the Anaheim police in the OP could lead to a loss of control on their part.

overwhelming shows of force have actually been a fairly successful tactic for the police

[Teacher]

If there were a few thousand more cops you could have re-enacted the climax from the new Batman movie

[Spirit]

This shit is ridiculous. From a normal man's point of view, of course. I can only guess that the tactic of "send someone looking like the army so the people shit their pants" is perfectly sound from the viewpoint of the police.

It's scare tactics and a very obvious display of it. There ought to be someone from LA with some experience from previous protests who will come to Anaheim and explain to the people how to act in this kind of situation and explain some common protest tactics and civil rights. I know the pigs don't really give a shit about that, but just in case.

[Agent Ducky]

Well, it worked pretty fucking well seeing as my mom wouldn't let me go protest in Anaheim because she feared for my safety.

[Comrades Unite!]

It's a joke end of.
It's scare tactics necessary to keep the Capitalists safe and the Interests of the Capitalists safe and not much else, the same thing is occurring in Russia with the Punks arrested for Criticizing Putin and USA with the people that were shot by the police.

[Jimmie Higgins]

suited up as if this was Iraq 2003...Yeah, no wonder folks call policing in the US: "the occupation".

Over the last couple of decades, the US government has been basically giving local police forces military supplies - armored vehicles and all kinds of crazy shit in the name of the "war on drugs".


http://sfist.com/attachments/SFist_Jay/occupy-oakland-may-day-tank.jpg
http://www.privacysos.org/sites/all/images/tampaTANK.jpg

It is intimidation because as much as cops are legally protected, they also need the sense of invincibility and above-the-lawness in order to operate as they currently do. To bring in the arrests that they do on drug offenses and everything, they need to be able to search anyone or stop any car - technically they need consent for this, but it's easy to get around it - but if everyone put up resistance each time the looked for drugs (I've read that 90-95% of searches result in nothing so they have to search a lot of people to make the numbers of arrests they do) then their job would be much more difficult. That's why they treat it as a personal affront or attack if you resist (or even question) their "informal" (i.e. not legal unless you comply) orders. If you don't comply, they will harass the shit out of you, run and they beat you (or shoot you as is the case here in Oakland with Alan Blueford as well as with both people murdered in Anaheim).

So public protest like this is not just any protest (which they would also use intimidation tactics on anyway depending on the protest) it's a direct threat. In their minds, if people can protest and force cops to be held accountable, then everyone will go around filming the daily harassment by cops and cops won't be able to push people around as easily.

[Ele'ill]

http://www.bayofrage.com/from-the-bay/from-anaheim-to-the-bay-solidarity-is-our-weapon-against-the-pigs/


FROM ANAHEIM TO THE BAY: SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON AGAINST THE PIGS

In a quiet warehouse district wedged between downtown Oakland and the city’s waterfront there sits a typical sports bar and grill. The place prides itself on being an OPD bar. They host fundraisers for cops, they proudly display portraits of the four cops gunned down by Lovelle Mixon on their wall. Their logo even looks like an OPD badge. On the evening of Friday, July 27, their windows were smashed out to the cheers of a smiling crowd composed of over 100 Oakland rebels. Paint was thrown on the building as well.


:lol:

[The Douche]

http://www.bayofrage.com/from-the-bay/from-anaheim-to-the-bay-solidarity-is-our-weapon-against-the-pigs/




:lol:

Yeah, I rode past that bar when I was in Oakland and asked "why hasn't anybody burnt that shit down?", but I guess some broken windows will do.

[A Marxist Historian]

This shit is ridiculous. From a normal man's point of view, of course. I can only guess that the tactic of "send someone looking like the army so the people shit their pants" is perfectly sound from the viewpoint of the police.

It's scare tactics and a very obvious display of it. There ought to be someone from LA with some experience from previous protests who will come to Anaheim and explain to the people how to act in this kind of situation and explain some common protest tactics and civil rights. I know the pigs don't really give a shit about that, but just in case.

The LAPD are of course the past masters of overwhelming force vs. any troublemakers and total ruthlessness, the Rodney King revolt, Watts in 1964, hell, the McNamara trial back in 1910.

Having been there and done that, indeed they could give the wannabes in Anaheim some lessons in when to go for the kill and when not to.

Let's hope they don't.

-M.H.-

[Goblin]

They look fucking ridiculous

[Lynx]

They look like soldiers.

[Os Cangaceiros]

(picture)

It is incredibly difficult for me to value the human lives of those pigs or even see them as belonging to the same species as myself when I see a picture like that, jesus christ. They may be dressed up like they're going to Iraq, it's just a shame that they never encountered Iraqi insurgency-levels of resistance. :rolleyes:

[Sheepy]

In a few years, the U.S would have police forces that would make the Gestapo jealous.

[campesino]

so this is where all those anti-terrorism grants, DHS has been giving local police departments, go to.

[Peoples' War]

peeps protesting at the police station over the shootings of 2 un armed african-americans
Fixed. Racist pigs are racist. This type of authoritarian response to protests is not surprising, and every cop who suits up like this should be flogged publicly.

[R_P_A_S]

Fixed. Racist pigs are racist. This type of authoritarian response to protests is not surprising, and every cop who suits up like this should be flogged publicly.

why are you changing my words???? I never said "african-americans" and besides they were Latinos

[Jesus Saves Gretzky Scores]

Well, it worked pretty fucking well seeing as my mom wouldn't let me go protest in Anaheim because she feared for my safety.

That sucks! The same thing happened with me at NATO. I just went with my dad, which became less of a protest, and more of a "walk around and muse at the people".

[Prometeo liberado]

They look like occupying soldiers in just about any other conflict I guess.

[SkeptikalSteven]

I agree they look like soldiers, one has to wonder if it is a concious choice though. Aren't manufacturing specs determined by the companies that provide this gear.