Federal, state, and local government agencies use military-grade hardware and tactics not only to deal with states of emergency for which they are well-suited, but also to conduct regulatory inspections for which they are not.
legitimatize the overmilitarization of their police force. they ve used a number of different excuses to, you know, condone their actions of violence upon peaceful water protecters. for the longest time it was the cold winter saying, oh, these people don t know how to handle a cold winter. water protecters have been through three blizzards and there have been no deaths, no serious injuries other than those caused by the at the hands of north dakota law enforcement. now they re using this flood as a way to get people off the ground. dallas goldtooth, thank you for joining us as we monitor this ongoing situation, protesters of the dakota access pipeline being asked, being ordered to leave at this hour. coming up next, more on those combative town halls. constituents want clarity, they want answers and they are not happy with what they are getting. does all of this unrest spell trouble for the gop? we ll answer that coming up. ahh, sir?
we re using our police as unregulated tax revenue collectors. sean this is we started this why was he putting the cell phone by his feet? for a $7 fine for a cigarette. i m a martial artist it was a headlock it wasn t a choke hold. we started talking about the media. where the media has been strongest is addressing some of the underlying issues. which affects all people. civil liberties, criminal justice reform civil forfeitures, all these issues that we should all care about in our communities. the overmilitarization of the police across the country. they use military equipment against our communities. color and white communities and other minority they were told to stand down in baltimore. in ferguson wait a minute in ferguson and in baltimore, these were all minority businesses.
thought. i have a hard time buying that was not the only reason they didn t go in. speaking to law enforcement officials today asking them what they thought was at playary and what i have been told is it appears that they didn t plan effectively. they miscalculated what the crowd was capable of. and perhaps because of the criticism against police in ferguson and the overmilitarization that may have play into the restraint that we saw yesterday in baltimore and perhaps they went overboard. don lemon is joining us from the streets of baltimore right now. where are you? what s going on. reporter: i m in west baltimore at at a park with members of the crips, members of the bloods members of to try to crush the unrest and the
protesters. without question it was a very challenging environment for law enforcement. but isn t using a term such as the enemy does that make it tougher for national guardsmen to distinguish between the bad actors and the larger crowd of peaceful protesters? well they should have departed from the standard language that they use in these sort of deployments. i totally agree with that jake but i don t think it changed the outcome. just within the report that sara just brought forward, i mean you can see the no-win situation for the governor in deploying the national guard. in one breath criticized for overmilitarization by bringing in the national guard. the next criticized for not fulling deploying them. it was a tenuous situation, and when you bring military into a situation like that it s very dangerous. remember the l.a. riots over 50 people were killed. many of them by by law