WASHINGTON—In an effort to restore the public’s faith in law enforcement, President Obama made an impassioned appeal this week, calling for the installation of turret-mounted video cameras on all police tanks. “This initiative will ensure that police officers across the country will be held accountable for their actions as they pour out of an 18-ton combat vehicle in response to a routine call,” said Obama, who announced a detailed plan to allocate funding to equip every single armored personnel carrier, landmine-resistant SWAT van, and battle-ready half-track with an onboard camcorder to monitor police conduct. “If the police are forced to discharge a high-caliber, vehicle-mounted weapon in the line of duty, we’ll know why. Furthermore, this policy will discourage the misuse of shell-proof tanks in our communities.” The president added that he is hopeful that turret-mounted video cameras would help to reestablish trust between officers equipped with military-grade technology and the populations they are sworn to protect.
“populations they are sworn to protect.”
I see the Onion has doubled down on the humor in their article.
It’s hard to tell onion articles from real news any more.
They’re not as funny as they used to be because you can just read the news to get virtually the same thing in a real article.
Yeah. Onion humor in 2016, CNN news “fact” in 2018.
You have paid for your own enslavement by allowing government fiat money printed out of thin air.
You want to know who destroyed the Constitution? It was you dumb smucks for allowing fiat money substitutes. Woodrow Wilson was right. He did destroy the country that he inherited. The Progressive Liberals are finishing the job.
I’m always surprised at how easily people are bought off. I’m not laughing.
King Nig wants to jerk off to the look on whitey taxpayer’s freedom-loving face as he goes under the wheels.
The most honest 19 secs ever from King Nig? You decide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfRtbIQ1kTw
“If the police are forced to discharge a high-caliber, vehicle-mounted weapon in the line of duty, we’ll know why..” WTF?!
That would seriously mean ‘Game On’. If the police ever discharge a ‘high-caliber, vehicle-mounted weapon’ – most likely into an ‘unruly’ mob of civilians – those responsible will be lucky to see another sunrise. You can take that to the bank. Even including the military, they simply don’t have the numbers. The only thing they have going for themselves is that they’re maybe better organised. But they can’t subdue Afghanistan, nor Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Syria or anywhere else for that matter, populations which are typically unarmed. People will come out of the woodwork from all over the world to fight the bastards. America must not fall.
” If the police ever discharge a ‘high-caliber, vehicle-mounted weapon’”
That’s a very quaint sentiment, given that Dallas police just used a “robot” (ROV) to use a bomb to blow up a suspect. Yeah, he was almost certainly guilty, but he wasn’t convicted and they just blew him up for convenience.
Other police are being allowed to use the services of Predator drones, and the FBI has its own shadowy air force (mostly human piloted – mostly).
Walt, I’m guessing that you are not familiar with the Onion?
@TJF – Ha! Got me. Damn, I’m not usually that gullible.. I didn’t notice the attribution. In my defence though, reality has become such a farce that it’s almost as if almost everything comes from The Onion these days.
Cheers for calling out my error, although my sentiment stands.