{"id":11052,"date":"2015-08-15T06:47:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T11:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11052"},"modified":"2015-08-15T06:47:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T11:47:54","slug":"acoustic-cannon-sales-to-police-surge-after-black-lives-matter-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11052","title":{"rendered":"Acoustic Cannon Sales to Police Surge After Black Lives Matter Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"

Acoustic Cannon Sales to Police Surge After Black Lives Matter Protests<\/a><\/h3>\n

During a company conference call with financial analysts last week, Tom Brown, the chief executive of LRAD, a military contractor, informed investors that sales were rolling in, not just from Chinese government agencies and the U.S. Navy, but also from American law enforcement.<\/p>\n

LRAD manufactures an acoustic\u00a0cannon that can be used either as a mounted loudspeaker or as a weapon to fire\u00a0deafening\u00a0noises<\/a>\u00a0at crowds of people.<\/p>\n

Over the last year, following a wave of protests over officer-involved killings of black Americans, LRAD has seen\u00a0an uptick in inquiries from police departments around the country.<\/p>\n

Brown told financial analysts in a May conference call about the \u201crenewed interest\u201d from police departments. \u201cA lot of grant money starts to flow to law enforcement, and we\u2019re getting a lot of inquiries\u201d following protests, he said. One inquiry he mentioned came from the\u00a0Maryland Sheriff\u2019s Department following the protests in Baltimore over\u00a0the death of Freddie Gray.<\/p>\n

Speaking to investors, LRAD executives explained that their product was on site in Baltimore, on loan from Montgomery County, Maryland, though officers ended up not using it on demonstrators. But, the LRAD executives added, the New York Police Department used\u00a0the cannon as a loudspeaker\u00a0to order demonstrators in Union Square who were holding a solidarity protest in support of the Baltimore actions to disperse.<\/p>\n

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Videos of the NYPD using the LRAD cannon to manage the\u00a0demonstrators were widely circulated on YouTube, company officials boasted. \u201cSo we have been getting good press,\u201d Brown noted, adding, \u201cdepending on which side of the press you\u2019re looking at, but we\u2019ve been getting very strong press from law enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Acoustic Cannon Sales to Police Surge After Black Lives Matter Protests During a company conference call with financial analysts last week, Tom Brown, the chief executive of LRAD, a military contractor, informed investors that sales were rolling in, not just from Chinese government agencies and the U.S. Navy, but also from American law enforcement. LRAD […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8106,4968,8105,308,4337,8107,1771,632,657,5567],"class_list":["post-11052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-acoustic-cannons","tag-baltimore","tag-black-lives-matter-protests","tag-ferguson","tag-law-enforcement","tag-lrad","tag-nypd","tag-police","tag-protests","tag-the-intercept"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11053,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11052\/revisions\/11053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}