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Pholus

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26. I bet they'll want to be public when the liability lawsuits roll in!
Mon Jul 7, 2014, 11:45 AM
Jul 2014

Then again, this might be the way they are planning to open the door to domestic Blackwaters....

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Wtf? PuraVidaDreamin Jun 2014 #1
And what kind of activity might they not want to divulge...? FailureToCommunicate Jun 2014 #2
Cops in Mass are incredibly well behaved MannyGoldstein Jun 2014 #3
Not exactly the point. WinkyDink Jun 2014 #6
I was addressing the photos of awful things MannyGoldstein Jun 2014 #7
Cops may be,yes, but there are still many folks concerned with incidents like the Watertown FailureToCommunicate Jun 2014 #8
I lived about a mile from the Watertown incident when it happened MannyGoldstein Jun 2014 #9
Seems they've decided a change of priorities was in order. n/t cprise Jun 2014 #12
I'm not trying to say MA cops are bad, or as bad as SWAT teams nationwide, which this ACLU report FailureToCommunicate Jun 2014 #21
I agree that it's disturbing. MannyGoldstein Jun 2014 #22
only 7% of SWAT missions are actual SWAT missions, 62% are drug searches bananas Jun 2014 #23
Radley Balko mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2014 #4
So they are mercenaries no better than Blackwater..... blackspade Jun 2014 #5
hence the need handmade34 Jun 2014 #10
Fuck off and die from a baby throwing the grenade Ed Suspicious Jun 2014 #11
That could happen in Mass. if the "Georgia cop mentality" creeps in. nt valerief Jun 2014 #14
Speaking of Georgia cops 90-percent Jun 2014 #20
Basically, they just admitted that they're fascists MynameisBlarney Jun 2014 #13
If they are private companies, strip them of all their taxpayer funded benefits... Purrfessor Jun 2014 #15
Still unacceptable. I do not want the right to deprive me of my rights and take me under arrest Ed Suspicious Jun 2014 #19
shit. it's one thing to pull this with the tourism council mopinko Jun 2014 #16
So then they shouldn't be allowed to arrest anyone.. truebrit71 Jun 2014 #17
tag leftyohiolib Jun 2014 #18
So ... tax-payer-funded armies against US? FiveGoodMen Jun 2014 #24
Kick! (nt) NYC_SKP Jul 2014 #25
I bet they'll want to be public when the liability lawsuits roll in! Pholus Jul 2014 #26
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