Why America's police look like soldiers

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I’ll repost this again:

Video of Ferguson police gassing newscrew and dismantling their equipment

When I asked previously why police in a city would wear jungle camo under their riot gear, most people said it had to do with militarization and a military surplus program. That didn’t quite explain it to me. That explains the guns and the tanks and the body armor. Not the camo. This explains the camo: Hollywoodization