There were children in that crowd, pregnant women, seniors. Easy targets to set on fire?
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They would have been used, but the Commander-in-Chief redirected them to his personal tanning room instead.
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Anyone have any idea what would happen if protesters covered themselves with aluminum foil?
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Ummmmm… You forgot to send the memo to the White House.
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Kinda like using leaf blowers on tear gas
Jiffy Pop?
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Remember how the Trump Administration bitched and moaned that the Castro Regime had deliberately beamed harmful sound waves at the US Embassy or Interest Section in Havana?
We need to add a use of weapons against civilians proviso to the IOKIYAR Exceptions to the US Constitution and The Ten Commandments.
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In other reporting Major Adam DeMarco of the D.C. National Guard testified that the order to disperse was not loud enough.
U.S. Park Police Chief Gregory Monahan has testified that protesters were given clear warnings to disperse via a Long Range Acoustic Device. But DeMarco told lawmakers that is impossible because there was no such device on the scene at the time.
DeMarco said without an LRAD device, which can be used to make booming announcements to large crowds, Park Police officers instead issued dispersal orders to the crowd using a handheld red-and-white megaphone.
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Depends on your Perspective.
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We really need to remove laws that allow police to unilaterally declare “unlawful gatherings” which then opens the door to beating, gassing and arresting people who have done nothing except stand in a public space.
I don’t care how loud or quiet the announcement is, it’s entirely incompatible with the First Amendment.
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Nasty heh.
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We’re all in the tannng bed with Trump now.
Using the ADS was probably discussed because Toadglans had it confused with a flame thrower.
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Human-on-the-cob?
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I’ve posted on here about how the St. Louis City PD used kettling after protests erupted over a jury finding a police office not guilty.
This tacit used poorly traps people in a location without giving them a way to disperse.
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Back in grad school (1999), classmates and I attended a “non-lethal” weapons conference, demonstration and trade show at Quantico.
We learned that “non-lethal” means “just short of lethal.” It’s some scary shit.
The US Department of Defense runs the “non-lethal” weapons program:
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Perhaps defer to the judgment of attorneys general, e.g. Bill Barr, who think 1st Amendment demonstrations against the president’s “policies” are akin to sedition. When authoritarians are in control the applicable legal standards are no longer relevant.
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Good gulag tactic. Yeah, they pulled the same shit in D.C. on a couple of the nights, blocked people in so they could do mass arrests. There was a big story about one homeowner who managed to save like 50 protesters by letting them in his house. Popo tried to send in a spy, tried to lure people out, and other shit.
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Remember when napalm was all the rage? Those were the days, my friend.
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I remember during the Michael Brown protests that a woman who had a house on the street where most of the protesting was happening, was standing in her own front yard with friends watching, and police arrested her and her friends. She even had a fence between her and the sidewalk, they still accused her of protesting.
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