150 protesters gather near annual conference in California,where companies that gain drones and rifle scopes market to police and fire departmentsThirteen-year old Maria Calvillo bursts into tears as she tells the memoir of the day in November when Oakland Swat team officers barged into her family’s domestic, pointed a rifle at her, or searched her family,including her three-month-old sister who was wrapped in a baby blanket.“The police had a tank in front of our house, an actual tank. I thought I was in a film It made me angry that they were searching my baby sister, and ” said Calvillo who shared her memoir at the Stop Urban Shield Coalition protest in downtown Oakland,California, on Friday.
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Source: theguardian.com