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Re:Texas police want uvalde bodycam footage suppressed by kube-system on Monday June 13, 2022 @03:48PM (#31730796)
They do make use of it, to protect themselves. I've never seen evidence of police using that equipment to swoop in and save anyone.

Soldiers use that equipment in a very different way, are way better trained and compensated, and have a very different set of rules to work with. And very rarely is it their mission to swoop in and save innocent people.

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Re:Texas police want uvalde bodycam footage suppressed by Apocryphon on Monday June 13, 2022 @03:52PM (#31730857)
> I've never seen evidence of police using that equipment to swoop in and save anyone.

What about all of the times heavy-armed police teams burst into residences during Swatting incidents?

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Re:Texas police want uvalde bodycam footage suppressed by kube-system on Monday June 13, 2022 @03:57PM (#31730941)
Most of the time those are not happening with military equipment. These things happened before police started getting surplus military equipment.
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Re:Texas police want uvalde bodycam footage suppressed by Apocryphon on Monday June 13, 2022 @04:00PM (#31730987)
Fine. But seeing as how SWAT teams have at least police-grade tactical equipment and training, and are expected to burst through doors, and this town had a SWAT team, you would think this was their moment to act.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdwgn/uvalde-swat-team-brag...

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