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Jada E. Williams
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Nov 10, 2020
HAPPENING NOW: @TallyPD is asking for new handguns plus approval of a new vehicle called The Rook. Heres what the one Apaches County uses looks like.
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The police, worried that their violent, oppressive fascism wasnt already obvious enough, decided to go for something a little more on the nose.
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FL: The police, worried that their violent, oppressive fascism wasn't already obvious enough, decide (Original Post)
soothsayer
Nov 2020
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So Leon county currently has 17 ICU beds available and the immediately surround counties have ZERO
soothsayer
Nov 2020
#8
The rook eh? Did they look at the scenario where people might attack it diagonally?
soothsayer
Nov 2020
#6
The Blue Flower
(5,432 posts)1. There's no Apache county in FL
Alachua maybe?
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)2. Tallahassee PD?
Lochloosa
(16,057 posts)7. That would be Leon County. Tallahassee is very Blue. It's Alachua County.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)8. So Leon county currently has 17 ICU beds available and the immediately surround counties have ZERO
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So Leon county currently has 17 ICU beds available and the immediately surround counties have ZERO but THIS is what the priority is? How much PPE could be purchased instead of that? What a slap in the face to healthcare workers.
Lochloosa
(16,057 posts)4. I could see Alachua County doing this.
exboyfil
(17,862 posts)3. Armored mobile outhouse?
IsItJustMe
(7,012 posts)10. That's funny
and exactly what I though it was when I first saw it. I was like, "Damn, why would they put an out house on the front of the vehicle".
cynical_idealist
(359 posts)17. coz they know they are full of **it
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soothsayer
(38,601 posts)6. The rook eh? Did they look at the scenario where people might attack it diagonally?
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The rook eh?
Did they look at the scenario where people might attack it diagonally?
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)16. Kills me!
procon
(15,805 posts)9. Who doesn't need a mobile armored outhouse? nt
MineralMan
(146,248 posts)11. More Comedy - Now It's an Armored Outhouse?
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)13. Yep, a skid steer with steel shithouse attached and price marked up 10X.
Probably 20-grand in bullet-proof glass, police radios and lights.
Just another police fear-gear grift on the taxpayer's back......
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)12. Can it be used to remove trump from the White House?
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