How ironic.
The US Army is funding research into non lethal crowd suppression weapons using heat wave and sound wave devices to quell large protesting crowds.
Why? The US Army learned in Iraq that to use lethal force against protesters would make them more prone to violence and hence turn peaceful demonstrators into angry frustrated terrorists.
At the same time, local police forces are misusing tactical
weaponry meant to respond to terror cells that attack small town
America. The media is unfair blaming a reasonable program on the actions of a few police forces. The goal was to give small police forces the equipment to take on a well-armed and well-organized terror cell. To be fair to Department of Homeland Security, this was a sound plan that makes sense.
But what happens when you use tactical equipment against protesters? Same response as in Iraq.
Did those police forces read the lessons learned by the Army in Iraq?
If I didn't expend synaptic activity, I would end up like the RMC Clock Tower in 1991.
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