So, Give police preference to hiring ex-military, check. Give surplus military equipment to local law enforcement, check. Create national police and spy force, Homeland Security, check. Declare perpetual domestic war on terror, check. Occupy United States, check.

Started with Reagan:

Most importantly, the Reagan administration launched a public relations campaign designed to change the public perception of drug use and the threat posed by illegal drugs. The centerpiece of this public relations campaign was a new rhetorical strategy that sought to demonize drugs and ostracize drug users.

http://racism.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=820:crime...

The Military Cooperation and Law Enforcement Act of 1981 carved a huge exception to the Posse Comitatus Act prohibiting the use of the military for civilian policing.

A 1984 amendment to the civil forfeiture statute that allowed feds and state and local police to keep up to 80% of the assets value caused a true revolution in SWAT use.

First created in the 1960s to handle riot control or violent confrontations with criminals, the number and usage of SWAT teams increased in the 1980s and 1990s during the War on Drugs and later in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. In the United States as of 2005, SWAT teams were deployed 50,000 times every year, almost 80% of the time to serve search warrants, most often for narcotics.

And homegrown commie terrorists of course:

While the public image of SWAT first became known through the LAPD, perhaps because of its proximity to the mass media and the size and professionalism of the Department itself, the first actual SWAT-type operations were conducted north of Los Angeles in the farming community of Delano, California on the border between Kern and Tulare Counties in the San Joaquin Valley.

At the time, the United Farm Workers union led by César Chavez was staging numerous protests in Delano, in a strike that would last over five years.[3] Though the strike never turned violent, the Delano Police Department responded by forming ad-hoc SWAT-type units involving crowd and riot control, sniper skills and surveillance.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAT

I will admit when he's right.

I'd prefer it if he stayed paying attention to actual, current problems that can be immediately addressed and fought. The Pigs absolutely need to be taken down a few thousand notches.

Unfortunately, if you go on twitter, his current high retweeted stuff has to do with Banning Columbus Day. Much more attention seeking, and you can get a good bit of racial tension out of that. Doesn't matter if it's right or wrong, it was 500 years ago, and therefore any arguments will be amazingly ineffective at anything other than pissing people off.

leave along with a second cop.
S.L. detective placed on leave

SALT LAKE CITY — Two Salt Lake City Police Department employees were placed on leave Friday and a criminal investigation has been ordered over video of a veteran officer dragging a nurse out of the hospital and arresting her after she refused to allow a blood draw from an unconscious patient without seeing a warrant.

He was working in a limited role since the incident and he was put on leave after Utah's AG saw the video.
The cops in Utah have been behaving badly for a long time and they are finally getting re-leaved of duty.

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A nurse got arrested for something or other, but that's all I know about it. Something more than a video and a tweet would be helpful.