NYPD reversal: Anti-terror unit armed with machine guns won’t police protesters

January 31st, 2015

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Reuters / Chip East

One day after saying a newly-created police unit armed with machine guns would police protesters, the New York Police Department has backtracked, saying the unit will only work on counter-terror initiatives.

Chief of Department James O’Neill told the New York Daily News
that the new counter-terror unit “will not be involved in
handling protests and demonstrations. They’ll have no role in
protests. Their response is single-fold. They’ll be doing
counter-terror work. They’ll be assigned to different posts
throughout the city.”

The reversal comes shortly after New York Police Department
Commissioner William Bratton announced the new 350-strong unit –
dubbed the Strategic Response Group – during a press conference
at a Police Foundation event. The unit would be dedicated to
“disorder control and counterterrorism protection
capabilities,” with police citing attacks like the hostage
situation in Sydney as examples where it would be deployed.

Ah yes, add in machine guns and police officers so they can
fight against those peaceful protesters! http://t.co/GxUw93fyqf

— Ms. Donaldson (@OddGhost) January
29, 2015

Bratton originally said the new squad will be used to investigate
and combat terrorist plots, lone wolf terrorists, and even
civilian protests.

“It is designed for dealing with events like our recent
protests, or incidents like Mumbai or what just happened in
Paris,” Bratton said, according to CBS News.

“They’ll be equipped and trained in ways that our normal
patrol officers are not,” Bratton added. “They’ll be
equipped with all the extra heavy protective gear, with the long
rifles and machine guns – unfortunately sometimes necessary in
these instances.”

Wow. Did I just see that NYPD will have a special unit that
will carry machine guns to kill protesters? #servingoligarchs

— RebelCapitalist (@RebelCapitalist)
January 30, 2015

The pilot program is to start at two precincts in Manhattan and
two others in Queens, though when it will be launched hasn’t been
shared with reporters.

However, the suggestion of having an NYPD unit armed with machine
guns “dealing with events like our recent protests”
sparked an avalanche of criticism and condemnation.

This is crazy. #BlackLivesMatter #ICantBreathe #EricGarner #Protest #NYPD #PoliceBrutality #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/nnuAaZ1hlm

— Justice League NYC (@NYjusticeleague)
January 30, 2015

How can NYPD talk about terrorists and protesters in the same
sentence? Protesters are New Yorkers exercising their protected
rights. Smh.

— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) January
30, 2015

“Initial reports of Commissioner Bratton’s plans suggest the
opposite of progress. His demands for less oversight of the NYPD
and a more militarized police force that would use
counter-terrorism tactics against protestors are deeply misguided
and frankly offensive,” Priscilla Gonzalez, organizing
director of Communities United for Police Reform, said in a
statement.

“We need an NYPD that is more accountable to New Yorkers and
that stops criminalizing our communities, especially when people
are taking to the streets to voice legitimate concerns about
discriminatory and abusive policing. Despite growing evidence
that discriminatory ‘broken windows’ is a failed and harmful
policing strategy, Commissioner Bratton stubbornly continues to
defend and expand it.”

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