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.
HARRY REID needs these to steal land
There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.
That’s why they need military equipment because they are wannbes. Never were, never could be, and probably failed the physical.
Citizens need to start being concerned about police forces becoming a military force especially since police brutality is on the rise all over the US.
I want one,,,,, if they can give them away because of excess,,,, I’ll take one please,,,, and you leave it Muslim brown,,,, I’ll repaint it to fit my geographical location.
Ya right. I also have a bridge I will sell ya.
They don’t need them like the agriculture dept. doesn’t need machine guns and bullet proof vests……but they got them anyway!!! Folks, you better wake up!!! You must read the list of exec. orders he has passed and the congress did nothing!!
OBAMA THINKS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE THE MOST GULLIBLE PEOPLE ON EARTH. HE IS IN FOR A RUDE AWAKENING.
WOW! So new that they didn’t get time to paint it black and put “RESCUE” and “TO SERVE AND PROCTECT” on it yet.
they want our guns so the can have control of us then they want to kill anyone who is against new world order