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| Max Blumenthal 15-June-2020 |
In October, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department turned parts of the campus of the University of California in Berkeley into an urban battlefield. The occasion was Urban Shield 2011, an annual SWAT team exposition organized to promote “mutual response,” collaboration and competition between heavily militarized police strike forces representing law enforcement departments across the United States and foreign nations.
At the time, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department was preparing for an imminent confrontation with the nascent “Occupy” movement that had set up camp in downtown Oakland, and would demonstrate the brunt of its repressive capacity against the demonstrators a month later when it attacked the encampment with teargas and rubber bullet rounds, leaving an Iraq war veteran in critical condition and dozens injured. According to Police Magazine, a law enforcement trade publication, “Law enforcement agencies responding to…Occupy protesters in northern California credit Urban Shield for their effective teamwork.”
At the time, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department was preparing for an imminent confrontation with the nascent “Occupy” movement that had set up camp in downtown Oakland, and would demonstrate the brunt of its repressive capacity against the demonstrators a month later when it attacked the encampment with teargas and rubber bullet rounds, leaving an Iraq war veteran in critical condition and dozens injured. According to Police Magazine, a law enforcement trade publication, “Law enforcement agencies responding to…Occupy protesters in northern California credit Urban Shield for their effective teamwork.”
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I would respectfully ask you to take down this article. Max Blumenthal is a well known anti Semite. All the facts, quotes and structured arguments can't hide that somebody from the ADL decided he was antisemitic therefore any further reasoning from him should be ridiculed.
ReplyDeleteI'm dismayed that this fine publication would stoop to highlighting any factual observations from this obvious racist. Israelification? lessons from Israel to Auschwitz? I'm pretty sure this but has been deemed antisemitic language by those non partisan Zionist chaps. Poor show, disappointed.
David, no offence...If you are asking for the editors to take an article on TPQ...you are pissing in the wind....
ReplyDeleteNope, i am no way connected to TPQ. I'm simply a North Belfast Rockabilly...
Frankie,
ReplyDeleteI was being sarcastic. Thought that was evident.
I was smoking a spliff and thought..."WTF did David just ask for?"...Barry "Yes" but you...
DeleteMy feeble defense I was smoking and listening to Hank Williams.
Good excuse as any. Was just a wee sarcastic dig at Zionist censor enthusiasts.
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