Tim Skubick: Aclu Leader Questions Local Police Departments' Use Of Military Equipment

ACLU's Shelli Weisberg: "It increases the risk of escalating violence. It erodes community trust and we now see the cops as occupiers like the military as opposed to them being the police."

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