The Department of Homeland Security, the US Customs and Border Patrol and local police agencies conducted an unannounced drill in the small town of Livingston, IL, which has a population of 850.
Complete with a SWAT team, armored trucks and helicopters, the drill was an exercise unifying federal agencies and local law enforcement.
The school superintendent said he was not given any information about the operation beforehand, despite authorities using school land as a staging ground. The U.S. Attorney’s Office refused to release any information on the purpose behind the operation.
KTVI labeled the presence of the feds a “mystery,” although it subsequently emerged that the school was being used as a staging ground for a raid on a house three miles away. Authorities refused to divulge the purpose behind the raid or if anyone was taken into custody.
Reporter Roche Madden said he learned that ten police cars showed up at the house to conduct the raid, suggesting that the Black Hawk and the armored vehicles were merely on standby.
The sheer number of feds present, in addition to multiple armored vehicles, military-style choppers and other vehicles, in order to conduct a raid on a single house clearly suggests overkill and will prompt more concerns as to the increasing militarization of U.S. law enforcement.
Authorities routinely stage unannounced drills, often in the middle of the night, which terrify startled residents. Critics have asserted that Americans are being conditioned to accept military-style policing as a routine occurrence.
The purchase of armored vehicles formerly used in anti-terror operations overseas has prompted widespread concern that domestic law enforcement in the United States is becoming increasingly militarized and violent. A recent ACLU investigation into the issue decried the fact that American neighborhoods are turning into warzones as SWAT tactics become more brutal, causing an increase in deaths, injuries and property damage.
Back in May, Indiana Police Sergeant Dan Downing admitted that the militarization of domestic law enforcement was partly to deal with returning veterans who are now seen as a homegrown terror threat. A local Fox affiliate reported that the cops were now “armed for war” against such threats.
Source: infowars.com
Photo: KTVI
Seems to me that there should be a few “drills” at the southern US border where they could do some good………… Lucky that there wasn’t the movie “Red Dawn” playing on TV…..
Returning War Veterans are only going on the list cause they know the truth and what may happen. All I know is that if something happens in my neighborhood I’m videotaping and sending it every where I can.
People will get used to reports of friendly people performing drills until someday it isn’t a drill and they aren’t friendly. Give boys military toys and they’ll find excuses to use them.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE READY FOR MARTIAL LAW,THAT WOULD ONLY BE AN ACT OF A DICTATOR. THIS PRESIDENT USING LAND FROM THE STATE HE CAME FROM!! THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE PREPARED FOR THE DAY, FOR NO REASON TRY TO PUT MARTIAL LAW ON ANY FREE STATE ,THAT IS RUNNED BY A GOVERNOR, NOT THE FED’S. AND WHAT A SURPRISE THEY WILL BE IN FOR,WE KNOW ABOUT YOUR HOLDING CAMPS NOT USED SINCE VIET NAM, FOR KEEPING PEOPLE IN CONFINEMENT. THE MALITIAS AND MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF AMERICANS HAVE TRAINED HOW TO PUT A QUICK END TO ANY AGRESSION TOWARDS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!
The gloves will come off soon… Very soon!
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