Alabama School Bus Shooting / Hostage

looks like police military still wears ACUs on American soil.

 

Southern Poverty Law Center perchance?

 

I got a good laugh a minute ago, Reuters had video of the sheriff on the situation from just a few hours ago, saying they were not ready to release the name of the suspect, but Yahoo had an article from even earlier with the loony's name and age.

And, would someone enlighten me as to what that long black thing is that the one on the right is carrying? We have bets here, need to see who's paying up.

 

my guess is raid shield

 

That is a riot/blast shield. seen on edge. It has a visor window to see through near the top edge.

 

Oh D'OH I see it now. I was just seeing the edge, now I see how it's wrapping around him a bit behind.
Guess no one is paying up anything.

 

sorry Broker, I answered in haste.My rhetorical meter is busted at the moment.Yes you are correct with the militarization of our police forces.Unfortunately people think this IS in their best interest.From the looks of their plate carriers they are state police swat , so natuarally they will have ALL the high tech gear. I for one am not impressed by the pic...they look unorganized,sloppy and carefree.

 

Well I'll be honest with y'all, as someone with no clue who wears what, they look like military to me. I imagine to most people they would as well. I'm used to SWAT wearing black.

 

Imma gonna say they are not military.
Too bunched up.
What says there isn't 2 or more?
I think they are relaxing too early.

What the actually are is, IED fodder? Well at least the numbnuts in the front.

 

you mean the police and the military are not the same?
they got similar gear

 

Not just a Mil Trained operator, Granted a true operator would make short work of it. These boys look simply relaxed like they came back from a training exercise. Lil' ol' farmboy like me would also be able to open a can 'o whoop ass on 'em. Operator might not leave any to tell the tale and it would be left to the investigators to try and piece it together.

My concern about this image is, Yes they are up armed just like our military, but why does this look like a training exercise when this was suppose to be a holed up 'vet?

 

I also note, mr. double lid trooper seems to be toting a can of coke. Spoils of war perhaps?

 

Some hit the beach at Normandy with less.

 

i guess all viet nam vets who suffer from some sort of ptsd will be labelled as terrorist now--some ptsd people only suffer night mares and other minor affects of being in a war

 

Standoff drags into third day as man holds boy in underground bunker - CNN.com

"His friends and his neighbors stated that he did not trust the government, that he was a Vietnam vet, and that he had PTSD," Byrd told the civil rights group. "He was standoffish, didn't socialize or have any contact with anybody. He was a survivalist type."

 

This is gonna be the one that's an NRA member. The only one out of however many psycho murders there have been over the years, but they'll hold him up as an example of all of us.

Someone get me to Georgia. I'll drag that a-hole out of his friggin tornado shelter and beat him to death myself.