Vice- Police Are Buying Drones and Armored Vehicles With COVID Relief Funds
The Kingsport Police Department, a small agency in Tennessee, purchased two “military-grade” drones in early March. Meanwhile, the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department in Missouri spent $334,715 of its $2.6 million allotment on a Lenco BearCat armored vehicle to replace a mine-resistant, 60,000-pound armed personnel carrier that the county received previously. Butler County, Pennsylvania bought a $330,000 Gurkha armored vehicle and the Hancock County Board of Commissioners in Ohio approved the purchase of a BearCat armored vehicle with ARP funds at a price tag of around $250,000 earlier this month.
Build back better [police state].
Russell Brand comments on this:
https://youtu.be/lzQGNXaErE4
Give paramilitary groups an influx of money and what else does one expect them to spend it on? Unless there are long term funding commitments they wouldn’t dare hire additional officers with it.
They need that heavy hardware for Covid because masks don’t work.
Buying military hardware is better than poisoning everybody with vaccines. Really, the former is a possible threat while the latter is a proven harm.
With the rise in lawlessness and especially attacks on police is it any wonder that those police departments want better vehicle protection?