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b_b  ·  1621 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: John Berger: The Nature of Mass Demonstrations

    ...the police have universally stepped up the brutality in response...

I saw in the news today a former Marine who was deployed to L.A. after the Rodney King riots talking about how his "heavily armored" Marine unit would have gotten wasted by today's police, if the level of armament is any indication.