How Occupy Wall Street Has Exposed the Militarization of U.S. Law Enforcement
Submitted on October 21, 2011
By Rania Khalek - October 20, 2011
Police repression in America is hardly new. Low-income neighborhoods, communities of color and political activists have always had to deal with unnecessary shows of force by some police officers. Thanks to a populist uprising threatening a status quo that benefits the top tier of American society to the detriment of the bottom 99 percent, many Americans for the first time are witnessing the U.S. police state in action.
