President will sign order to revive program that provides departments with surplus military equipment such as high-caliber weapons and armored vehiclesUS police will again acquire access to high-caliber weapons,grenade launchers, heavily armored vehicles and other surplus military equipment that the Obama administration had limited after critics said its use was militarizing the police and inflaming confrontations with protesters, and often in racially sensitive situations.
Donald Trump plans to sign an order undoing the Obama-era directive,the US attorney general, Jeff Sessions, or on Monday told a national conference of the Fraternal Order of Police,one of the groups that acquire urged Trump to revive the military program. Related: Is shooting unarmed black people considered 'law-and-order'? | Douglas Williams Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com