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Obama Flip-Flops: Plans To De-Militarize His Militarized Police<\/a><\/h3>\n

Having enabled billions of dollars worth of militarized equipment to be unloaded into every police department in the nation – only to have alienated the very Americans that hoped for change the most – it appears President Obama is ready to uncross another red line. Following unrest in U.S. cities over the deaths of black men at the hands of police officers,Reuters\u00a0<\/a>reports, during his triup to Camden NJ,\u00a0Obama announced his plans to put in place new restrictions on the use of military equipment by police departments<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Just six months ago,\u00a0<\/em><\/a>President Obama was discussing increasing the funding for the militarization of America’s police force.<\/p>\n

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Now, after various riots, deaths, and police excess, he appears to be flip-flopping away from that idea…<\/p>\n

As Reuters reports,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Obama will ban police use of equipment such as explosive-resistant vehicles with tracked wheels like those seen on army tanks, the White House said in a fact sheet.\u00a0<\/strong>For other types of equipment, such as MRAP (mine-resistant ambush protected) vehicles and riot shields, departments will have to provide added justification for their use.<\/div>\n

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In the aftermath of the Baltimore riots, Obama has been speaking out more about race,<\/strong>\u00a0including in a speech in the Bronx on increasing opportunity for young minority men and during a panel discussion on poverty in Washington.<\/p>\n

“Race issues have been more present over the past year for this country. We’ve seen, since Ferguson, issues that have been bubbling up in communities becoming much more present,”\u00a0<\/strong>said Rashad Robinson, executive director of colorofchange.org, a group that aims to strengthen the black community’s political voice in America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Obama’s remarks in Camden will be\u00a0the fourth time in as many weeks that he has held an event to discuss his ideas for improving life for poor black communities.<\/strong>\u00a0Obama, the country’s first black president, has often been reticent about discussing race issues.<\/p>\n

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Obama Flip-Flops: Plans To De-Militarize His Militarized Police Having enabled billions of dollars worth of militarized equipment to be unloaded into every police department in the nation – only to have alienated the very Americans that hoped for change the most – it appears President Obama is ready to uncross another red line. Following unrest […]<\/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":[1238,5502,525,584,632,5501,635],"class_list":["post-8256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-barak-obama","tag-de-militarize","tag-military","tag-obama","tag-police","tag-police-militarisation","tag-police-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256","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=8256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8257,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256\/revisions\/8257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}