Blame the newcomer, not the 50 year career politician running for office for the umpteenth time or the Clinton / Bush houses who suddenly are angels of morality.
I don't think power reveals at all. In fact the opposite is more true.
I think the ones who really have power are better at hiding their true intentions and hunger for power behind words, propaganda and deflection.
They did. Trump reversed it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/politics/trump-police-military-surplus-equipment.htmlThe move rescinds limits on the Pentagon handouts that were put in place by President Barack Obama in 2015 amid a national debate over policing touched off by a spate of high-profile deaths of black men at the hands of the police, including the shooting death in 2014 of 18-year-old Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Mo., by a white officer. Some local residents viewed police use of military equipment during the ensuing protests as an unnecessary show of force and intimidation.
In a speech to the Fraternal Order of Police in Nashville, Mr. Sessions said Mr. Obama had made it harder for the police to protect themselves and their neighborhoods.
Oh you are so right, I forgot that Obama passed that law about outlawing cops putting a knee on someone's neck for 8 minutes, and Trump reversed it... /s
So if you want to debate, try not to make yourself look too foolish.
There already are laws against murder. Hence the cops being charged for violating it. You wrongly assert with your cute little meme that Obama's administration did nothing to stop police brutality.
I showed you evidence they did, and that it was reversed by Trump/Sessions. Your response is to move the target and insult. You are not wanting debate, you are wanting confirmation of your own uneducated opinions.
No you didn't. Zero evidence, in fact.
"Putting restrictions on military hardware used for Police departments"
*does not equal*
"Ending systemic racism and police brutality".
Do you want to try again, or are we done debating?
Well some high profile studies do say that police brutality is linked to the 1033 weapons transfer program. There's a lot more that has been said on this subject over the years, so much so in fact that I find it hard to believe you have not seen the link before.
https://www.cato.org/blog/militarization-makes-police-more-violentEarlier this year [article is from 2017], a study conducted by researchers from Harvard, Stanford, Cincinnati, and Gardner‐Webb concluded that the Pentagon’s 1033 weapons transfer program made participating departments more likely to engage in deadly violence. After receiving 1033 gear, departments were more likely to kill civilians as well as dogs.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053168017712885As for policy, our results suggest that implementing the EO to recall military equipment should result in less violent behavior and subsequently, fewer killings by LEAs. Taken together with work that shows militarization actually leads to more violence against police (Carriere, 2016; Wickes, 2015), the present study suggests demilitarization may secure overall community safety.
