To add:

If cops are afraid of civilians having this hardware, they’re in the same boat as the rest of us. Maybe they’ll have some incentive to lobby for laws that would keep all of us safe.

But instead they lobby for things like perpetuating the decades long “war on drugs,” which is largely what this breach and clear shit is used for.

They want to wage war on civilians. And, really, just some civilians.

Here’s an archived version that’s not paywalled.

I really don’t care if cops have to deal with that. It’s their job.

If they don’t want to do it, find another one. The world could use fewer armed right-wing meathead goons.

Or try de-escalation for a change.

We know what happens when we arm a police force with military weapons and no accountability.

I absolutely blame the cops and the people who gave them these deadly toys.

If a tradesman “fixed” my plumbing with C4 I’d blame the plumber and the guy who gave him the explosive.

I’d rather the right-wing paramilitary not have weapons of war.

A SWAT team destroyed a Texas home and refused to pay for the damage. Now the homeowner is fighting back.

Police Owe Nothing To Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeals Court Says

Wisconsin police send armoured vehicle to collect fine from 75-year-old

Homeowner left to cover damages after Las Vegas SWAT raid goes awry

Not an MRAP, but explosives: Police tore through the wrong house. Now Austin won’t pay for the damage.

And these are just the ones where they got the wrong house (other than the one where they drove an armored car to a guy’s house to intimidate him). They’re offensive weapons, and the cops use them as such.

I don’t get why people are fine with arming the police with military hardware like MRAPs.

Their whole job is to control the civilian population and people want to arm them with the means to drive into a house and start unloading on the residents within?

They’re a right-wing paramilitary force; we should be limiting their reach instead of giving them armor and quad-damage power-ups.

Here’s your regulation issue avocado toast and collapsed economy. Oh, I see you’ve already got one of those. Welcome aboard!