Neenah is just one city in Wisconsin where police have recently obtained or will acquire free, mine-resistant Caiman multi-terrain vehicles through an excess property program at the U.S. Department of Defense.
To calm concerns from residents about weapons from the army being brought into their town, the video below was released explaining that the trucks would be used in incidents like hostage situations.
Neenah’s SWAT team leader, Lt. Jeff Malcore, stated the vehicle’s gun turret has been removed and that the truck doesn’t have other weapons on it.
“We have no ability to shoot out of it,” Malcore said. “All it does is allow us to get from one place to another so we can deploy our people, or if there’s firing coming in, we can back up to a window or something to get people out.”
He didn’t explore the possibility that the gun turret could be put back on the truck or that police could bring weapons into the vehicle with which to shoot out of that big hole in the top, of course.
The militarization of our police force at a local level, paramilitary forces in 48 federal agencies, war machines being brought into our cities all over the country and the efforts to disarm the American people…no, your little promo video about how this vehicles only purpose to move people from one place to another doesn’t make me feel any better, sheriff.
For real, hostage/s situations only …
yea , believe that ,these trucks are for marshall law
You people in Wisconsin are idiots if you don’t really know why your local Gov. wants these…
Protection from us ! Obamas gearing up folks!
More of Obama’s plans to take over this country and turn it into a Muslin Nation!! He plans on killing any one who does not do what he wants: he has already bought casket to bury us in and put American citizens in interment camps to rehabilitate us to his way of thinking these camps are already in place. He also plans to take America’s children and programing them into Muslims !! He already brought plane loads of illegal Muslims into the U.S. and has several terrorist groups throughout this this country already training for this take over not to mention all the illegal criminals he has turned loose in this country!!
Yep…..They want them to protect themselves from the citizens!
i need three or four of these
I saw one hear the other day
any city shought be outraged at this. the people shought stand up and say and deman these things out of there city,
Bull$#%&!@*. Stevie Wonder can see what’s going on here. They need that $#%&!@*ing thing like they need a hole in the head. I know, I was a Cop for 21years. Who’s going to pay for the fuel and upkeep for this monster? If it breaks down, who’s going to pay for getting it fixed? I can tell you, the taxpayer will. First off, I don’t know how big this city is, but unless it’s like over 25,000 or so, what the hell do they even need a “SWAT team” for? If they do need one, and I doubt it, what’s wrong with getting a box van to haul them around? They would be a hell of allot cheaper to operate and easier to get around on city streets. This is all bull$#%&!@* folks, I know that for a fact. The Police are becoming more and more militarized all the time and it needs to stop. They are beginning to look at us like we are the enemy in a war. The Neenah city council needs to get with the Mayor and they need to get this Sheriff under control. He’s an elected official who serves at the pleasure of the Mayor and the Mayor needs to do his job here.