Wednesday, September 10, 2014

"Those lawful, peaceful protesters did not deserve to be treated like enemy combatants.”

-- Sen. Claire McCaskill (D - Mo.) on the police response to protests in Ferguson during the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing yesterday. 

The hearing was set to evaluate the propriety of a policy that sends billions of dollars in military equiptment to local law enforcement across the county.

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civil_rights/2014/09/those-lawful-peaceful-protesters-did-not-deserve-to-be-treated-like-enemy-combatants-.html

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