Katie Hill: Military helicopters trying to disperse protesters here in DC

[Dennis Donovan]

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[C_U_L8R]

1. That's not just dumb... it's trump dumb.

[Hav]

7. Yes...lets poke the bee hive with a stick

to make the bees fly away.
It almost seems as if they deliberately choose the option that could cause the most severe escalation.

[C_U_L8R]

8. Trump is doing a great job of turning a protest into a movement.

Something that tends to be the finish of autocrats.

[paleotn]

2. Disperses the tear gas.

Other than that, it's just noise.

[2naSalit]

3. Until one of them

catches a high wire or something and crashes on a building or protesters.

[ManiacJoe]

4. The military helicopters have wire cutters for just that reason.

It is the civilian choppers you need to worry about.

[2naSalit]

6. Hmmm...

Is that a feature since those two military choppers hit wires in broad daylight and burnt down a forested mountainside in the same area in two different years in San Diego?

[ManiacJoe]

10. What model chopper are you referring to?

I don't recall any such incidents, but that is probably due to my bad memory.

[2naSalit]

11. Back in the early 2000s...

One year there was some military helicopters doing something up around Julian, hit some kind of powerline and burned down the mountainside. Two years later a very similar event in nearly the same place. I know about it because the first time the fire burned an enclosure and half a pack of wolves, including pups, in the wolf sanctuary there. And the second fire came onto their property as well.

[paleotn]

5. Well, there is that.

Flying choppers low at night in a major city. What could possibly go wrong?

[Brainfodder]

9. Please no Blackhawk Down sequel....

What part of protecting us from domestic terrorists do these people not get?