New NYPD Anti-Terror Unit Will Get Machine Guns To Police Protesters

[n2doc]

Murders reached a historic low in NYC for 2014; overall crime was down across the board by nearly 5%; hell, even the holiday slowdown didn't really lead to any additional crime. So clearly, now is the time when NYC really needs to implement a new anti-terrorism program which would empower a team of NYPD officers to roam around the city carrying machine guns. What could go wrong?

Police Commissioner Bratton made the announcement earlier today at an event hosted by the Police Foundation at the Mandarin Oriental. He said that the new 350 cop unit, called The Strategic Response Group, will be dedicated to "disorder control and counterterrorism protection capabilities" against attacks like the hostage situation in Sydney, which the NYPD's Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence John Miller said was an inevitability in NYC.

This new squad will be used to investigate and combat terrorist plots, lone wolf terrorists, and... protests. "It is designed for dealing with events like our recent protests, or incidents like Mumbai or what just happened in Paris," Bratton said, according to CBS.

"They’ll be equipped and trained in ways that our normal patrol officers are not," Bratton explained. "They’ll be equipped with all the extra heavy protective gear, with the long rifles and machine guns — unfortunately sometimes necessary in these instances." Capital NY adds that these officers will also be used "to assist on crime scenes, and help with crowd control and other large-scale events."

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[daleanime]

1. ........

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. Me too.

[leveymg]

2. "They’ll be equipped and trained...with long rifles and machine guns...to help with crowd control"

Reading between the lines to get at what they're really telling us.

Disorder control . . .It's only going to get worse.

[TheKentuckian]

13. You don't even have to read between the lines. They straight up say...

"It is designed for dealing with events like our recent protests".

Sure they throw in some cap about Paris and Mumbai but it is really about controlling not protecting us.

[kelliekat44]

3. The police state in full force. I'm ready to go to NY to protest this. nt

[octoberlib]

4. WTF?!

[KingCharlemagne]

6. Everyone was ooh-ing and aah-ing over Bratton when he seemed to be backing

up de Blasio:

"It is designed for dealing with events like our recent protests, or incidents like Mumbai or what just happened in Paris," Bratton said, according to CBS. (Emphasis added)

Bratton knows who the real power brokers in the city are and he's making sure they know he's got their back.

On a positive note, a .357 or Glock will kill you just as dead as a machine gun, so we're no worse off than we were before. In some ways, we're better off now that the mask has slipped.

[Man from Pickens]

7. First Amendment Guns, you mean

They're there to protect the First Amendment from people who would use it all irresponsible-like to talk about banks and wars and the corruption of the system, and those who might ask what other instances he was thinking of where he says that machine guns are "unfortunately necessary".

[2naSalit]

8. And away we go!

as Jackie Gleason might say.

Apparently religion isn't doing its job of total crowd control anymore.

That's why I 'm way over here in the hinterlands.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. Matewan sprung to mind.

Apparently Police Commissioner Bratton is vying for the Tone Deaf of the Year award.
Cops with machine guns facing unarmed protesters??

shades of Kent State...here we go again.

[RedCappedBandit]

10. "unfortunately sometimes necessary in these instances"

When the fuck have these been necessary for NYC protests?

[hifiguy]

11. "Terrorism" my shiny metal ass.

These are for culling the herd of those brave enough to make noise. They will never be used against "terrorists." This is one more signal that publicly expressed dissent is not going to be tolerated. Gestapo assholes. Fuck the police.

[dilby]

14. I wonder if he really means machine guns or just full auto assault rifles.

I see no reason for police to have machine guns, I could see maybe them having M4's but I think even that is crazy since they will be in New York city not fucking Fallujah.